[Crowdfunding šŸ”Ø] Evarvest

Iā€™d take these extraordinarily bold expansionary statements with an equally gigantic pinch of salt.

Expanding into different regions is super difficult considering the different languages and financial regulations, especially for a wee startup. Easily said and imagined by wide-eyed founders, but much harder to execute.

Without reading their literature or going into their website, I suspect they will start in an English speaking country (UK) and will stay there for a while before making an expansionary plans.

Furthermore, expanding into a new geographic region too quickly to pursue growth can be a painful and expensive exercise. Look at Purplebricks.

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When you strip away the mights and might-nots, this is great for us as consumers. Right now Freetrade are the only tangible option for free investing, but within a year weā€™ll see more entries into the market and the competition to provide the best service is only a win-win for us consumers :slight_smile:

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Trading 212 is another option currently available.

Exactly, and they look quite lucrative - wider range of instruments, same zero-fee approach (apart from 5EUR to withdraw to a bank account) and they have a web interface.

This is the sort of thing I mean, if a few more players enter the market with similar features (maybe even more) then we all benefit.

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Starlingā€™s teal colour had a hard time to grow on me lolā€¦

Got this through today - ā€˜a play money only beta versionā€™ :thinking:

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Community has been set up and has many screenshot of the app includedā€¦

Evarvest Community

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Itā€™s not discourse :scream:

Thatā€™s not how you Fintech

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Lolā€¦ Yeah that was my first thought too! Maybe they are trying to disrupt the disruptors!

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Had a quick look, some interesting points

  • Instant trades are 75p
  • Batched trades happen at market open
  • They wonā€™t pay Stamp Duty but will pay other similar fees, source
  • Their revenue will come from FX, Instant Trades, and a small commission for non US stocks. source
  • First places theyā€™ll launch are the UK, Lithuania, Spain, Portugal and Poland!
  • They are doing a webinar on May 14th with their founder Stephanie Brennan
  • Social will be a big part of their product, follow friends, Spotify-esque playlists.
  • The discussions package they are using is called MyTalk.io
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Want to know what Catherine has done to be demoted down the leaderboard despite the fact sheā€™s level with Herbert

Donā€™t think Iā€™ve seen them mention investing yet, itā€™s all trading

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Looks like paid for advertising on Facebook in the run up to their Seedrs roundā€¦

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So EvarVEST is for trading and FreeTRADE is for investing

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Hail oxymorons! :smile:

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I donā€™t quite understand this idea of ā€˜Playlistsā€™ - is to share my buys/sells with friends? Or create a list of automated actions that flw on from one another?

I read it as basically a filter. So youā€™ll get a popular playlist, a tech playlist etc

So a list of stocks that I should buy if Iā€™m interested in ā€œFintechā€ (for example?)

Thatā€™s what I think anyway. Same as Spotify have your daily mix lists or similar to what youā€™ve listened to lists. Hopefully it will have some diversification in there though

Exactly what I thoughtā€¦ Why didnā€™t they use discourse.

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Maybe they had a coupon :grin:

It has different features to discourse, a more Facebooky profile section for a start. Iā€™d like to see what tools the admin/mod dashboard has compared to discourse