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		<title>Trampoline Systems announces investment from leading industry figures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, as snowflakes fall around the Trampery, I&#8217;m delighted to announce investments from 10 leading figures in the software and financial industries. The investors include: Ian Smith &#8211; former Managing Director, Oracle Corporation UK, Ireland and South Africa Steve Broughton &#8211; former Managing Director, Business Objects UK Paolo Juvara &#8211; former Senior Director of Applications, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://crowdfunding.trampolinesystems.com/2010/11/30/trampoline-systems-announces-investment-from-leading-industry-figures/</link>
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		<title>Trampoline&#8217;s innovative funding model cited in Parliamentary evidence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We were delighted to learn that Trampoline has been cited in evidence submitted to one of the UK Parliament&#8217;s Select Committees. The Committee is investigating possible new funding models for the arts and cultural ventures in Britain. Crowdfunding is one of the models being considered. Trampoline was the example held up to illustrate how it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://crowdfunding.trampolinesystems.com/2010/11/09/trampolines-innovative-funding-model-cited-in-parliamentary-evidence/</link>
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		<title>Crowdfunding presentation at British Library</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Next Tuesday (27th April) I&#8217;m giving a presentation on crowdfunding at the British Library. I&#8217;ll be covering three areas: How the venture investment landscape is changing and what it will mean for entrepreneurs. The different models of crowdfunding and what they are suited to. How Trampoline organised a successful equity crowdfunding project. See the full [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://crowdfunding.trampolinesystems.com/2010/04/23/crowdfunding-presentation-at-british-library/</link>
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		<title>Questions about GrowVC&#8217;s crowdfunding platform</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago Hong Kong based GrowVC came out of closed beta and launched their crowdfunding platform to the world. I was excited because GrowVC was described an &#8220;equity crowdfunding&#8221; platform, implying that investors receive equity in the businesses they back. To my mind this is an essential requirement for any platform that&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://crowdfunding.trampolinesystems.com/2010/03/04/questions-about-growvcs-crowdfunding-platform/</link>
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		<title>Crowdfunding presentation at Minibar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night I gave a talk about crowdfunding at Minibar London. The audience mainly consisted of people working on early-stage ventures. I took a straw poll about funding. Some had already raised finance from friends and family or institutional sources. Many more were planning to raise money in the coming year. I tried to present [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://crowdfunding.trampolinesystems.com/2010/01/30/crowdfunding-presentation-at-minibar/</link>
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		<title>First tranche of crowdfunding investment completed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m pleased to announce that the first tranche of Trampoline&#8217;s crowdfunding process was successfully completed today. We had all the investor commitments more than a month ago but it took til now to get the paperwork drawn up and executed. The last few signatures came in earlier today. This is an exciting moment for Trampoline [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://crowdfunding.trampolinesystems.com/2009/10/29/first-tranche-of-crowdfunding/</link>
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		<title>Trampoline featured in Growth Business article on the VC crisis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nick Britton at Growth Business has written a thoughtful article analysing the current malaise in the venture capital industry. He quotes research that aggregate VC investment in the UK has shrunk by 63% since 2006 (from £2 billion to £750). That&#8217;s a much grimmer picture than the 30% global decline reported by Deloitte. In the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://crowdfunding.trampolinesystems.com/2009/09/22/growth-business-features-trampoline/</link>
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		<title>Crowdfunding one month update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s now one month since we announced Trampoline&#8217;s crowdfunding project. As Techcrunch reported we rapidly received commitments for a third of a million pounds. We&#8217;re now close to initial completion at half a million pounds with a solid pipeline of investors moving towards the second stage. At this point certain patterns are evident which may [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://crowdfunding.trampolinesystems.com/2009/09/04/crowdfunding-one-month-update/</link>
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		<title>Charles Armstrong interviewed for Out-Law podcast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday afternoon I recorded a ten minute interview with Out-Law, the technology law website run by international law firm Pinsent Masons. This has now been published as a podcast. The interview starts at 2:30.]]></description>
		<link>http://crowdfunding.trampolinesystems.com/2009/08/20/charles-armstrong-interviewed-on-out-law-podcast/</link>
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		<title>Techcrunch article on Trampoline crowdfunding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday night, as the Perseid meteorites streaked through Earth&#8217;s atmosphere, Techcrunch.com published a provocative article on Trampoline&#8217;s decision to &#8220;jump the VC ship&#8221; and raise finance via crowdfunding. Techcrunch has established itself as the journal of record for tech startups and the venture capital industry so this was bound to create a bit of a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://crowdfunding.trampolinesystems.com/2009/08/12/techcrunch-article-on-trampoline-crowdfunding/</link>
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