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Blog posts tagged with: failure

Crowdcube's NY starts with a Bang and Whimper as I Love Gorgeous piles into the administration buffers

As yet another expensive flop on Crowdcube heads out of the door to oblivion, we ask if Crowdcube's 1 star rating on Trust Pilot is justified. 

Are we really trying hard enough to get this right?

Seedrs Transfer Guru closes down and reveals the truth behind many equity crowdfunding businesses - the lack of any planning or research and easy money.

Cocoon fails and losses Crowdcube investors £1m plus

Cocoon raised £2.3m on Crowdcube, from over 1000 investors. Now the failed company, 'worth' £15m in 2017, is being given away leaving shareholders to rue their own poor judgement. 

Videogram Worldwide is latest Crowdcube failure

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One we missed. Rateragent closes down after some very odd Crowdcube numbers induced investment.

This is the Crowdcube model in action. Rateragent made several claims and produced some very interesting numbers in their 2015 Crowdcube pitch. It managed to raise £134k from 133 people who really...

Yet another Crowdcube success fails

We agreed not to disclose the name of this company, as they are trying to complete a deal that will mean they dont have to liquidate. But it is a busted flush in terms of the business and its 200...

Crowdcube start 2018 as they intend to go on; with yet another sad story of failure

Angelberry have been defrosted. The took £200k off Crowdcube investors in 2014. Now they have for first time since, communicated with those investors to say Goodbye, Cheerio, So Long Suckers.

Nom Foods - what looked like a successful business has turned out to be a Zombie shell which sold its assets 2 years ago and is now closing.

The Nom Brand for what it's worth continues but investors have lost all of their £142,000 that they invested in this start up. The detail on the Crowdcube pitch was lacking but who is surprised at...

Ben Pugh's Farmdrop - Ploughing its own dark furrow in the annals of Start Up Failures

£57,000,000 is the current black hole left by Ben Pugh and team - hundreds of good supppliers left unpaid and Crowdcube investors penniless.

Hardman and Co’s Brian Moretta in conversation with ECF Buzz Founder Rob Murray Brown on start up investing, equity crowdfunding and what’s a good read.