Any success with equity crowdfunding investments?

Wow, Crowd2fund. You see what they've done there, taking the word crowd from crowdfunding, and the word fund from the crowdfunding and put a 2 inbetween. What a brainstorming session that must have been.

I wonder if they've been smart enough to register crowd1fund thru crowd99fund as trademarks? Allegedly IBM did that with PL/1.

EDIT: Forgot about crowdfunding4U.

Yep, I've gone through a string of start-ups over the past few years - particularly around 1999-2006.  Only one is still in existence, and that was very conservative and was arguably no longer a start-up when I joined.

I'm told that if you make 10 investments in these sorts of things, you can "expect" 7 to go belly up (total loss), a couple to be mediocre and one to return 1000%...although I think even that is quite fanciful.

I guess it's not controversial to suggest that equity-based crowdfunding is much more risky than p2p or p2b lending?

Given the above, you won't be surprised to hear I've not made any equity-based crowdfunding investments.

I was, however, almost tempted by an equity-based investment (via a managed investment service) in the renewables sector (wind turbines, solar farms, etc) - those returns sounded much more predictable (but consequently, not that exciting - 8% say).  So predictable, in fact, I was surprised they still qualified for EIS and/or SEIS.