What was your favourite aspect of the YCF conference? - Reviews & Feedback
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Funding insights
Just getting started!
Connection
The Yush pitch!
Fascinating session on crowdfunding
Lots of AMAZING people in Edinburgh startups
Still early stage so not sure
Problem: don't have enough capital in Scotland to scale truly global business. Only 9% going into the North. Solution: build the community of startups that want to grow here
Equity investment - Mindshift from giving up equity to having people along with you through highs and lows
Alternative funding. Corporate ventures, advance subscription agreements - for pre seed and seed, convertible loan notes
Meeting other like-minded people who are passionate about growth :)
The British Business Bank has more financial capability to help smaller businesses scale
Archangels. Invest in 1-3 opportunities out of 200-300. So you need a hook is critical to be eye catching.
Not immediately. Not looking for funding yet
Some nice connections
Ambition in the room
I’ve understood some of the debt requirements far better, and learned more about the friction with some equity funders and debt!
Loved the founder/investor reverse pitches and the Niki Mackenzie chat on story telling
Meeting and learning from investors! ❤️
It's all about innovation + money!
Susan from the British Business Bank opening the conference
IP audit grants
Intriguing
love the funders pitching to founders when its usually the other way round!
the chairs are so uncomfortable - too small (feedback for venue!)
Need more info for solo and female founders. The underrepresented group still find it challenging
The presentation of the panel was really informative for debt vs equity. The separation between them showed the range of stages of when to use it.
Networks!
Meeting interesting people and learning from them
Keep it simple with good visual Paint pictures to capture imagination. Bring your product to life
Meeting friendly and open funding organizations
Crowdfunding and reverse pitching
Funders and founders.
Sponsors actually gave informative talks or facilitated panels not just the typical sales pitch
The Funder pitches were a great way to glean what each investor saw as the merits of their own form of funding - it was a helpful new perspective.
SCOTLAND leading the way in TECH, AI and FINANCE
It's all about supporting business growth by providing scalable software!
Alison from YCF sharing real examples of fundrasing journeys
Richard Gibbs from Marks & Clerk highlighting ALL the messy topics/stages at startups where you might to sort out IP
Shuli is amazing!
YUSH ENERGY :)
interesting hearing from young companies about their different funding results
Lynne Cadenhead from Tricapital has committed to investing in diverse sectors in Scotland. Sustainablity and the life sciences
PISCES for intermittent trading of shares not listed
Unsure at the moment, but will find out more after lunch!
Good spectrum of talks
ASAs, Convertible Loan Notes
Great mix of founders and funders
Great news 💰
Interesting companies
Fireside chats. More human and engaging asking the questions you want to know the answers to.
Nice to see so many women speaking on stage
Scottish Edge has changed to a mission based approach to help businesses and scale to transform the economy to create a fairer and greener Scotland
Supportive and open environment
funding £ in Scotland
It's all about THE PEOPLE
Yush
Founder experiences
Not just equity funding. Crowd funding panel was insightful
Variety of content
Knowing the options vs actually navigating through the options is different. It's still somewhat messy and confusing
Enthusiastic founders
Great stories
Insightful talks explaining options
All the options for investments
Seeing young companies thrive
Real stories and experiences from founders on why they made certain funding decisions and what they are looking for
Crowd funding (beer and boardgames) discussion was insightful. Impressive founders
Archangel chat
Can't really see a lot of the slides with text
The diversity of sessions - something for everyone.
Honest chats
Connections and network