19 - 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 Growth <a href="https://imgur.com/qKuuWws"><img src="https://i.imgur.com/qKuuWws.png" title="source: imgur.com" /></a> Freetrade 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. TIPS LONGER 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 FUNDING Apparently 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 KINDNESS Kindness isn’t just being nice to your family members a