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One of the things for potential investors to note is that participation is based on your understanding of risk and making a self-certification that you are able to afford to lose the investment without deciding to sue seedrs.com or me for your investment decision.
In effect the government make you agree to say that you are a high earner and that you know the risks involved and are seasoned when it comes to investing. When you sign up to seedrs to be able to invest, you will be agreeing to such a statement or asked to make such a declaration.
Generally speaking, angel investment is in the high risk and potentially high return category. Wise investors say that this should only be 5% of your investment strategy... that you put most money in secure investments, and gamble with a small amount.
This should all be common sense stuff... there is no guarantee that I can build a multi-million pound business in a couple of years, and as I'm fond of saying the default state for most tech startups is death. As the founder and CEO it's my job to not only give birth to this thing such that it grows into something strong, but I constantly have to subject the company to defibrillation just to keep it alive and kicking.
The risks are real... you may believe in the idea, this forum, me... but nothing can be guaranteed even with all the belief in the world.
Invest only what you could accept losing.
Thankfully SEIS makes this far more palatable than it is. But then, it's up to you to go figure that out too.
Of course the advantage of a forum, is that I'm pretty sure once one of you figure it out you'll share it with the other investors.