I am investing money into a company. help

hi guys


I recently invested a about 150 pounds on some startup companies
on a crowdfunding website.


the equities are very small obviously like 0.005%.


I wanted to ask you guys, if I will atleast make money out of it?
Or is it a waste of time, as I don't have much savings other than that

just keep it in the bank, no point doing anything with such a small amount of money. Come back when you have £1000

I put £95 into Brewdog in 2011. The latest share trading valued my investment at £500.

Would I have managed that in the bank?

one word

fees

£14.95...

Ok so I'd only realise £390.50 profit from my £95.

Would I have got that from the bank?

20% of your investment gone in fees, ridiculous!

all I can say is, you got lucky. It was just as easy to make that profit as it was to lose your entire initial investment.

Investing in small companies is literally gambling. You might as well have put it on a horse at the gold cup.

I put £95 into Brewdog in 2011. The latest share trading valued my investment at £500.

Would I have managed that in the bank?

£14.95...

Ok so I'd only realise £390.50 profit from my £95.

Would I have got that from the bank?

Haha your posts really make my mind boggle. You seem to have reasonable thoughts in some areas but then come out with utter nonsense elsewhere. It's as if you are trying to justify investing in start-ups through crowdfunding because you made a 400% return on one punt (that is, by the way, totally illiquid). Bizarre. Tell me, why did you only invest £95 when it was a sure thing? Surely you should have taken out a loan and bet all of that on it?

OP: Investing through crowdfunding for equity is fun and a way to make a really solid long-run return if you believe in the business. However, investments are highly illiquid and you shouldn't be putting in significant amount of money into them if you haven't got much to begin with and might need the money (it will take you at least 5-10 years to get your money out at anything like the valuation that is given, the only way you can easily and quickly sell shares is if they are a public company). Investments like this shouldn't make up more than 5% (maybe 10%) of your total portfolio as they are totally unpredictable.

Haha your posts really make my mind boggle. You seem to have reasonable thoughts in some areas but then come out with utter nonsense elsewhere. It's as if you are trying to justify investing in start-ups through crowdfunding because you made a 400% return on one punt (that is, by the way, totally illiquid). Bizarre. Tell me, why did you only invest £95 when it was a sure thing? Surely you should have taken out a loan and bet all of that on it?

OP: Investing through crowdfunding for equity is fun and a way to make a really solid long-run return if you believe in the business. However, investments are highly illiquid and you shouldn't be putting in significant amount of money into them if you haven't got much to begin with and might need the money (it will take you at least 5-10 years to get your money out at anything like the valuation that is given, the only way you can easily and quickly sell shares is if they are a public company). Investments like this shouldn't make up more than 5% (maybe 10%) of your total portfolio as they are totally unpredictable.

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Thanks for reply unfortunately I already set up a debit to pay for investment in a few companies. Not sure what to do, as I am not in the best of financial situations.

Any other better ways to make money from small amounts of money like that?

Thank you guys

Betting if you know what you're upto.

What you don't realise is that owning a share in Brewdog entitles you to go to their AGM which is essentially a massive piss up / music festival, so it's more than your standard stock on a screen. Some people purchase them purely for that reason notwithstanding the potential profits.

I didnt, I put £95 in for my dad too. At the time I was pumping more money into whisky.
As you say its illiquid and with risk. Just the suggestion that you cant do anything with £100 is laughable

cheers for the reply but was looking for a more determined way of investing as in more secure with better odds.

Well, you can't do anything with £100 really can you, nothing that is fairly low risk but provides any sort of return within a couple of years. If you buy shares for example you lose at least £5-20 in fees which means your shares need to increase in value by 25% (if the fee is £20) just to break even on what you put in. No one starts investing when they have £100 of cash in the bank unless they have done no research at all.