Investing from your easy chair

Last Thursday, May 26^th, Participium was present in the Maria Goretti church at the Blaisantvest in Ghent. This church was bought by non-profit organisation DOIC and made it a multifunctional meeting center. The conservation works have already been carried out. A beautiful new interior will be created through crowdfunding. For us it was a perfect setting to explain the difference between investing with a purely financial goal and investments that go far beyond money, but are all about involvement and creating value.

 

Luc Colebunders and Jan Lagast ready for road show “investing from the comfort of your couch”

Luc and Jan are ready for the series of events under the heading “Investing from the comfort of your couch”. The content is all set:

• The difference between capital investment and stake investment
• The possibilities offered by the current legislative framework
• What you should pay attention to when you study concrete proposals
• What are the factors that make a company successful?

The first events have already been scheduled

• 14/4 at Participium in Zottegem
• 19/5 in the new co-working space in Knokke
• 26/5 in Ghent in a former church that, thanks to crowdfunding, was converted into a meeting center

Mixed funding = success

Crowd + angel + private placement + government funding + VC + bank + … = success

Jan Lagast attended quite an interesting event today about business financing in Flanders, organized by Agentschap Ondernemen. The most important sources of business financing were presented in one day. Luc Colebunders (photo) , President of the new Belgian Federation of Crowdfunders, closed the day with an interesting thought. “Look for a mix of sources for financing and use one source as a leverage for the other.”