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Think the financial market isn't for you? Shares is a startup aiming to ensure that investment is something anyone can enjoy. Investing in stocks and shares is an enticing but daunting prospect. Promises of riches with minimal time and work are contrasted against horror stories of investors losing everything. It seems so simple, to put a little bit of money into something, and as they do their ...
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Oliver Woolley, CEO and co-founder of Envestors shares his thoughts on what the social media hype around Gamestop taught us all about investment Social media hype saw the share price of Gamestop, the game retailer, rise to a high of $483 then plummet and close at $60 on 8th February 2021.  This left many amateur investors in something of a spin. Other social media darlings like AMC Entert...
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The innovative investment platform Wombat secures major funding to help with further development and to expand the shares and investments on offer Great news for Wombat, the UK’s first thematic & curated fractional investment platform which has just closed a £2million seed round to help the fast-growth business serve consumers’ increasing appetite for shares investing. Th...
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We take a look at Freetrade, the fintech startup that'll enable us all to invest on the stock market... Certain Startacustodians might have been rich now had we continued to invest in the likes of Tesla and Bitcoin. Instead of writing this article, we’d be landing our private helicopter on our super-yacht and berating the help for not topping up Richard Branson’s champagne. Or at le...
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Micro art investments in shares, for as little as a fiver, is now a real possibility thanks to Feral Horses, a marketplace startup that acts as an art stock exchange to buy and trade shares of contemporary artworks directly from artists and art galleries. London-based startup, Feral Horses is a operating in the art business that gives the possibility to anyone to invest in contemporary artwo...
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Recently Thomas Taylor a director at Legal Document provider Net Lawman has written some fab posts for Startacus on the legal issues that face many a small business and startup. And leading nicely on from his recent articles on why forming a company shouldn’t be a priority when starting a business and If your Co-founder Left, Who Would Own Your Business Thomas returns with an issue which is...
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