David Turner

David Turner

CEO at invest & Fund

About

After spending 30 years working in the City of London as a trader at various financial institutions such as RBS and Tullett Prebon, I decided to embark on a new project. I joined up with Mark Hawkins, a friend of more than 20 years, to launch Invest & Fund, a credit-led, peer-to-peer lending platform specialising in residential development and bridging finance. Invest & Fund is today supported by a highly-experienced Board and 30+ staff in offices in London and Hastings, and a business development team covering England and Wales. Everything we do is underpinned by extremely high-quality credit assessment processes, ongoing monitoring and deep industry experience, and financed by a pipeline of 500+ registered individual and institutional lenders.

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Forums

⚡️ 2 New Problems to Build a Startup:

  1. USA: Fake negative reviews from people who were never customers are appearing on Google Business. Extortionists offer to remove them for money. Google won't help. Need a real solution.

  2. Vietnam: New SaaS projects require weeks of infrastructure setup. Existing templates don't work. Need a solid foundation. Willing to pay $100 150 one time.

A deck can have an exceptional problem statement and still be a no. Here's what actually killed it.

We launched the @1752vc Pitch Deck Analyzer here this morning, and ~100 founders have run their decks through it in just a couple hours. And I love already seeing founders get feedback on exactly what this analyzer was made for.

Pre-seed deck. 28 slides. Graded C. 8 critical issues, 4 quick wins.

5d ago

I started giving my AI agent a “don’t change” list before UI work

I noticed something annoying with AI-assisted frontend work.

The agent could implement the requested feature correctly...

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