Conversation with the Cowley's
We have an exciting end to series 4 of the Invested Investor podcasts. This week we are proud to have our founders Peter and Alan Cowley talking about their experience running the Invested Investor. A unique and open conversation between father and son reveals what their key motives are for setting up the Invested Investor, as well as the key successes and failures of the business. Interestingly, they highlight the biggest learnings from all the podcasts they have recorded.
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Peter Cowley is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor. He was brought up in Hull and has kept his Yorkshire honesty. He has founded and run a dozen businesses and has invested his own money in more than 70 start-ups. He is the President of the European Business Angel Network and was UK Angel of the Year 2014. He has mentored hundreds of entrepreneurs and is currently on the board of eight start-ups. Peter founded and runs Martlet, the investment arm of the Marshall of Cambridge Group, a privately owned 100-year-old engineering company. He is the former chair of the Cambridge Angels and is a Fellow in Entrepreneurship at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School. He was a non-executive director of the UK Business Angel Association and on the investment committee of the UK Angel CoFund. He is a popular speaker and travels the world sharing his experiences, good and bad, with entrepreneurs and angel investors.
Alan Cowley co-founded The Invested Investor with his father, Peter, in 2017. The mission of The Invested Investor is to improve the business creation journey for entrepreneurs and investors by helping them to understand each other better and work together more transparently and productively. It does this through sharing lessons and stories from people working in all aspects of the start-up ecosystem, which are available as podcasts via the website www.investedinvestor.com. The Invested Investor book distils these lessons for angels and would-be angels and was published in 2018. Alan is also a Director of Camdata Ltd.
Podcast links:
Founder to Founder: Tips and tales from 100 Entrepreneurs and Investors
Invested Investor: The new rules for start-ups, scale-ups and angel investing