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16: We Built a Trading Platform - Adam Dodds & Viktor Nebehaj - Freetrade.io
THE STORY OF HAVING A MASSIVE IDEA AND THEN MAKING IT HAPPEN.Adam Dodds, CEO and Viktor Nebehaj, Head of GrowthFreetrade is a revolutionary trading platform for UK investors to make trades for free. Their mission is to completely improve the experience of trading so that people can make the best use of their money and never have to worry about fee's.Adam Dodds, CEO and co-founder of Freetrade shares his experience in starting the platform and key issues and features of the platform.Viktor Nebehaj is the Head of Growth and goes much deeper into crowdfunding strategies, investing strategies and tools to make you a better human.Freetrade.io is launching this month May 2018 and also raising their 3rd round of funding on Crowdcube.com for anyone interested to get involved.TIPSLONGER TERM INVESTING.I really like Viktor's investing approach of looking for the companies that have maybe been neglected by the stock market with newer fancier businesses like Tesla or facebook taking the limelight but actually have a great business model and are offering a decent return and have invested in R and D to keep themselves producing relevant products and selling a big volume of products and companies like Ford and Nike represent that. Also the long-term goal of aiming to be able to make a reliable income of your investments is such a great way to be designing your life and really worth thinking about.A GOOD IDEA CAN GET FUNDINGApparently raising a relatively small in their words circa £150k is easy. This seems pretty big but with just a few founders with an idea, you can tell a good story about it's totally doable. You need to show you know what you are doing then you really have no excuse to quit your job and just bloody do it. Now in the UK this is even easier with the SEIS scheme but there are similar incentives in many countries.PRACTICE REAL KINDNESSKindness isn’t just being nice to your family members and friends or doing acts that you hope to get paid back. It’s about doing things that genuinely help or improve someone else’s life without expecting any recognition or thanks.Practicing such kindness is the most enlightening, empowering and satisfying thing you can do and learning to make such acts will give huge personal rewards once you can do it.BOOKSGet any of the books free on audible (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Audible-Free-Trial-Digital-Membership/dp/B00OPA2XFG?tag=samharris48%E2%80%9321)BORN TO RUN: A HIDDEN TRIBE, SUPERATHLETES, AND THE GREATEST RACE THE WORLD HAS NEVER SEEN BY CHRISTOPHER MCDOUGALL (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Born-Run-Hidden-Ultra-Runners-Greatest/dp/1861978774/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2L8OOLE8SABP2&keywords=born+to+run&qid=1580444932&s=books&sprefix=born+to+%2Cstripbooks%2C-1&sr=1-1)Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of all, pure inspiration, Born to Run is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world’s greatest distance runners and learn their secrets, and in the process shows us that everything we thought we knew about running is wrong.CHAOS MONKEYS: OBSCENE FORTUNE AND RANDOM FAILURE IN SILICON VALLEY BY ANTONIO GARCIA MARTINEZ (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Chaos-Monkeys-Inside-Silicon-Machine/dp/1785034553/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1P114FZ0DE1L6&keywords=chaos+monkeys&qid=1580444888&s=books&sprefix=chaos+mon%2Cstripbooks%2C434&sr=1-1)Liar’s Poker meets The Social Network in an irreverent exposé of life inside the tech bubble, from industry provocateur Antonio García Martínez, a former Twitter advisor, Facebook product manager and startup founder/CEO.The reality is, Silicon Valley capitalism is very simple:Investors are people with more money than time.Employees are people with more time than money.Entrepreneurs are the seductive go-between.Marketing is like sex: only losers pay for it.ENDURANCE: SHACKLETON'S GREAT ADVENTUR
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