The Spreds Blog

• Combine social impact and profit • Make money more: more sustainable, more responsible, more impactful • Social entrepreneurship, crowdfunding and venture capital: the better way to invest Making the World a Better Place Making the world a better place: these days, the idea seems more than a little fanciful. Watch the news every day, and the world seems to be going backwards, not forward... read more

Yesterday we hosted our first exclusive event for our members in Gent, the Magic 5, and today, thanks to our combined effort, there is hope for more sustainable days ahead! Over 500 participants joined the pursuit of a new sustainable future for Europe, raising nearly €10 Million! They were our light to act on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with venture capital, crowdf... read more

PRESS RELEASE - Brussels, 18 November 2016 On Thursday 17 November, Belgian crowdfunding platform MyMicroInvest hosted an exclusive event in the city of Ghent, Magic 5, to celebrate the launch of Inventures II, the first venture-capital fund for impact businesses tackling the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). [magic5... read more

This is an interview excerpt with José Zurstrassen, the #EUCrowdShow Ambassador and MyMicroInvest Chairman. [jose-zurstrassen-mymicroinvest-crowdfunding.jpg] How can a small business in a European country grow and expand across the market?  Let's imagine that a person in a small business in Hungary wants to grow across Europe and expand to each country in the EU... read more

This is an interview excerpt with José Zurstrassen, the #EUCrowdShow Ambassador, and MyMicroInvest Chairman, prepared for the #EUCrowdShow... read more

It’s the 5th week of our crowdfunding roadshow, the #EUCrowdShow, and it is busier than ever!  With five new cities and countries this week, we’ve now been to 24 corners of Europe! This week we traveled to Sofia, Bulgaria at CowOrKing Space by Puzl; Copenhagen, Denmark at Rocket Labs; Stockholm, Sweden at Coffice; Warsaw, Poland at Techhub; Dublin, Ireland at the Bank of Ireland Conference Fa... read more

After a brief hiatus last week, we’re back for the weekly wrap-up of the fourth week of #EUCrowdShow. Now we’ve visited 19 countries, and have 10 left on our tour... read more

It is the third week of #EUCrowdShow, and we’ve visited 15 cities so far! We’re just over half-way through the trip as we head to 29 countries in total... read more

Today we are in Slovenia for our #EUCrowdShow, a roadshow across 29 countries in Europe. We're going to the big and small places in each corner, from France and Germany to Malta and Cyprus. The tour is led by the MyMicroInvest Chairman, Jose Zurstrassen, who has more than 25 years of experience as an entrepreneur and, more recently, as an investor... read more

This was the second week of our adventure across Europe for the #EUCrowdShow. We visited 10 countries so far, with 19 left to go, we’re almost half-way and we’ve just started.  This week we went to Valetta, Malta at Talbot & Bons; Tallinn, Estonia at Tallinn Creative Incubator; Riga, Latvia at TechHub Riga; Helsinki, Finland hosted by Maria 0-1; and Vilnius, Lithuania at Rise Vilnius... read more