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New Pick: A Crypto With a Proven Vision

By Vin Narayanan on May 25, 2023

This month’s crypto recommendation is highly unusual — at least for us. Today I’m recommending a coin that’s already part of the Crypto Asset Strategies portfolio. And it’s the first time we’ve ever done that. Background We recommend small cap altcoins to our Crypto Asset Strategies members (click here to sign up). These investment opportunities are more speculative than the large cap coins…

Startup Insider: All About Options With Jeff Bishop

By Early Investing on May 24, 2023

We love talking about startups at Early Investing. But we rarely talk about a different type of investing: options. And if there’s one person who knows options, it’s Jeff Bishop. Jeff is the founder and CEO of RagingBull, a financial education…
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Behind the Pick: A RAD Crypto for Your Portfolio

By Early Investing on May 19, 2023

Radicle — the latest addition to the Crypto Asset Strategies portfolio — is a unique recommendation for us. It’s run by a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), which makes RAD a governance token. With governance tokens, the overall health of the project and a smooth…

Going Down a Collectibles Rabbit Hole

By Vin Narayanan on May 19, 2023

There’s a group of about 10 people that I’ve been friends with since 1995. We were all young professionals back then, starting out in our first jobs and trying to navigate life as best we could. The fact that we’ve all stayed in touch and remained friends for…
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The First Stage Investor crypto portfolio is in a good place. We’ve got some coins in the red, with Solana taking a particularly hard beating. But Polygon is up nearly 50%, and Uniswap is making some promising strides. In this…
Last July, Coinbase asked the SEC to undergo a formal rulemaking process for crypto so that exchanges, crypto startups, and the crypto community at large would understand how to operate. The SEC sat on the request and chose not to respond to it. So last month Coinbase…
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Timing the market is a fool’s errand. I’ve written and said that sentence often enough that if there’s ever a Comedy Central roast for me (not going to happen, but still fun to dream about), it will be used to make…

Get Your Investing Mojo Back

By Vin Narayanan on May 12, 2023

Crypto Market Musings Bitcoin is trading around $27,000 as of this writing and is down about 6.5% over the last seven days. Ethereum is trading around $1,800 and is down about 4.5% over the same time period. Welcome to crypto allergy season. Some weeks will be good. Some…
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Cancer sucks. Everyone knows someone who has been affected by this deadly disease. And while treatment has come a long way, there is still no cure. The disease kills more than 600,000 people in the United States every year. Billions of dollars have been poured into…
Spring is here and the weather is warming up. What makes it even better is another upcoming IPO! Monogram Orthopaedics — a First Stage Investor portfolio company that combines personalized 3D-printed implants with robotically precise surgeries — is set…
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We’re in crypto allergy season — a time between the end of the crypto bear market and the start of the next bull market. That means cryptos are no longer moving in lockstep. Some will do well and some will struggle — especially altcoins. But the…
Crypto Market Musings Bitcoin is down around 0.7% over the last seven days. Ethereum is down about 0.4% over that same time period. And Monero is up about 1.8%. Conflicting macro narratives appear to be driving the market. Inflation is proving to be stubborn, and the…
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When we first recommended Avadain in June 2022, we were blown away by the company’s take on the next “super material” — aka graphene. Graphene can withstand incredible amounts of stress without breaking. And it’s nearly a perfect electrical conductor. Avadain makes nearly…

Crypto Insider: Coinbase Sues the SEC

By Early Investing on May 3, 2023

Crypto regulations are still a confusing mess. And now Coinbase is suing the SEC to try to force regulators to choose a path forward.  In the lawsuit, Coinbase asks that the SEC be forced to publicly share its answer to a petition Coinbase filed in July…
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Behind the Pick: A Newcomer Crypto That’s on a Roll

By Early Investing on April 28, 2023

The crypto market is in a weird place. The bear market isn’t quite over, but it’s unlikely to spiral downward for an extended period of time. It’s in a kind of volatile recovery mode. Investors must be extra careful in a market like this. It’s easy…

The Kind of Regulatory Moment Crypto Needs

By Vin Narayanan on April 28, 2023

Crypto Market Musings As I write, bitcoin is trading around $29,000. Ethereum is trading close to $1,900. And the rest of the markets are a mess. Welcome to crypto allergy season, everyone. The bear market is over. The bull market hasn’t started. That means cryptos aren’t…