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Crowdfunding the most searched finance term for businesses

New research from accountancy and business advisory firm, Cowgill Holloway, reveals ‘Crowdfunding’ is the UK’s most frequently searched term on business funding. Cowgill Holloway has produced a league table of the most searched terms, highlighting the popularity of crowdfunding searches amongst other alternative finance terms including ‘p2p lending’ and ‘crowdsourcing’. The term ‘crowdfunding’ was significantly
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Money, money, money! It’s a crowdfunder’s world

One of the most challenging aspects of getting a business off the ground is funding. You can attempt to venture down traditional avenues to raise the money needed, but if you’re new to entrepreneurship, the odds of being able to secure funding through these channels is pretty slim. In fact, 60 per cent of start-up
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What ideas are most likely to get crowdfunding support?

New research on crowdfunding carried out by HEC Paris, the University of Technology Sydney, Singapore Management University and INSEAD reveals that funding efforts are weakened if ideas are deemed to be both novel and useful. The study is the first evidence of how the Kickstarter community – those backing crowdfunding projects on the world’s largest
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