Another successful London SpeedFunding event last night with an electric atmosphere bringing together 8 entrepreneurs pitching to 14 high-net-worth individuals.
Businesses seeking funding included home credit finance, commuter transportation vehicle, hand-hygiene products, an insurance price comparison website, saddle design business, birthing products and a reusable and recyclable packaging solution, with...
Last night’s slightly smaller than normal SpeedFunding event in London was another great success, giving budding entrepreneurs and business owners the opportunity to pitch to a number of eager Angel investors.
As six entrepreneurs waited nervously to pitch to twelve wealthy Angels, there was an almost palpable sense of expectation in the air. Business plans at the ready, clutched like shields in front of them,...
With recent comments from Ed Miliband suggesting it is time to close the ‘tax havens loophole’, we’d like to know is Gibraltar really a tax haven?
Gibraltar certainly provides an attractive fiscal environment:
- no capital gains tax
- no wealth tax
- no inheritance tax
- no gift tax
- no estate duty
- no value added tax (VAT) or other sales taxes
However at the beginning of last year a new Income Tax Act was...
Last Thursday Angels Den North West ran a well-attended breakfast event at the IOD in Manchester. The event was about growing the value of your business by using Angel help and Angel funding.
The key messages at the event were:
Business Angels are inspired by credible entrepreneurs and their teams with interesting and exciting ideas and a clever business model. In the UK the most important factor (86%) that drives...
We see so many business owners through our doors at funding clinics throughout our regions that are keen to raise funds and want to grow their business to take it to the ‘next level’; they often tell us they can see the advantage of joining Angels Den and pitching to investors as a fast-track route to that end goal. However, of the many businesses that approach us, most will never join for whatever reason (or...
