Number one best-selling business author and esteemed CEO Marco Robinson today launches The New Rich List – the world’s first entrepreneur funding and Accelerator Company. Robinson, who owns a number of businesses operating under his global franchise NAKED, is launching the business globally after spotting a gap in the market for an accelerator programme that offers mentoring and guidance, truly challenging the way investment in start-ups is carried out. The platform, which has already secured £2 million in pre-seed capital, will enable start-ups to pitch their business model, get funded, receive top-level mentoring and advice, receive access to the New Rich List’s database of 50,000 customers and the opportunity to collaborate with other businesses in the portfolio. Robinson’s existing portfolio which consists of companies in the travel, food and beverage, property, cosmetics and entertainment sector are all part of the New Rich List and are based on his patented crypto-currency, NAKED dollars (NKD$). Based on block-chain technology, NAKED dollars or NKD$ enable loyal consumers to save money on their usual spending habits and be rewarded in every purchase from companies selected to be part of the New Rich List. Robinson said: "The New Rich List is the most exciting and disruptive thing I have ever done. The investor interest we have had so far has been phenomenal. Think Dragon’s Den meets the Apprentice in an offline formality, but with the unique concept of both mentoring and funding entrepreneurs. It is something I have been working on for ten years. "By rewarding customers generously, in a crypto-currency available for use on the newest and most exciting products and services on the market, the New Rich List will become a hub for the best, most talked about, most investable businesses of the future." Within 2016, the New Rich List plans to […]
