Dear readers, Welcome to the third
and final edition of the Ready for Equity!2™ Newsletter. Ready for
Equity!2™ is a Leonardo da Vinci project which was launched in October
2008 to accelerate the expansion of emerging early-stage equity
investment markets in Europe by developing and implementing training
programmes for entrepreneurs and investors.
This Newsletter
will be the last one issued by the project; the next newsletter you will
receive from us will be sent from the Ready for Equity! Academy™, a
pan-European entity created by the project partnership to sustain the
training material and curricula developed in the framework of the four
year project and to make them available to beneficiaries in Europe and
worldwide.
Over the course of the last four years, we have
shared best practices and compared tools and mechanisms in place
throughout Europe to develop two all embracing training sets aimed to
facilitate the capacity building process of Business Angels and fund
seeking entrepreneurs to prepare them for their funding journey.
The
Academy’s training programmes are tailored to the participant’s level
of knowledge and expertise and cover all topics relevant in the informal
investment market for market participants, professionals, Business
Angel Network managers, and other actors involved in supporting SMEs and
Entrepreneurship in their region. We strongly believe that the RfE!™
training will bring professionalism and formality to the world’s
emerging business angel markets, and experience from the project has
already proven the impact of the training modules on the development of
informal investment markets and a stimulation of cross boarder
investments.
The RfE! Team invites you to celebrate the launch
of the Ready for Equity! Academy™, on 21st September 2010 in Győr,
Hungary, following the successful completion of the Ready for Equity!2™
project.
Sally Goodsell, CEO Finance
South East
