Author: Adam Sharp

Adam Sharp the founder of EarlyInvesting.com, a new e-letter focused on equity crowdfunding. He is an active investor in more than 50 startups. A former financial advisor, he also has extensive experience with internet marketing and financial writing. He has built 3 profitable web businesses.

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AngelList’s New Rolling Funds Worth the Look

Back in February, AngelList introduced a new feature called “rolling funds.” It’s a new type of fund that invests in startups.  To understand what’s unique about rolling funds, we first need to know how traditional venture funds work. Traditional funds typically raise a large amount of money upfront — anywhere from $5 million to $1 billion. The fund manager then invests that money over the next 2-to-4 years and manages it…

The Fed Demands Higher Inflation

By Adam Sharp on August 7, 2020

For a while now, it’s been clear that the Fed wants higher inflation. Now it’s finally starting to admit it. Here’s an excerpt from CNBC’s article this week titled “The Fed is expected to make a major commitment…

Real Estate Returns Versus Stocks

By Adam Sharp on August 4, 2020

Note: This is a guest post from our friends over at MillionAcres. They’re focused on finding the best real estate investment opportunities for accredited investors like you and me. And as they show here, real estate investing, much like angel investing, can be far more lucrative than investing in stocks.
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The Flight to Alternative Safety

By Adam Sharp on July 31, 2020

As I write this on Friday morning, bitcoin is up 1.78% to $11,178. Ethereum is up even more over the last 24 hours — 7.96% to $343 (nice call on ETH last week Vin!). Other altcoins are a mixed bag, but the majority…

The Power of the Private Market

By Adam Sharp on July 31, 2020

Two amazing American companies went public (IPO’d) in 2004 — Google (GOOG) and Domino’s Pizza (DPZ).  Since then, Google (now Alphabet) has become one of the largest companies in the world. Today it’s worth more than $1 trillion. Domino’s is currently valued…
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Finding the Best AngelList Syndicate Leaders

By Adam Sharp on July 28, 2020

Chris Sacca is a legend in the angel/VC world. His first VC fund — Lowercase Fund I — has been called the best-performing fund of all time.  Here’s how Fortune described it back in 2015. Can you name…

How to Play the End Game

By Adam Sharp on July 24, 2020

It’s been another crazy week in markets. There are a bunch of topics I want to discuss with you. So today we’re going to look at five stories, with brief commentary on each.   Grant Williams and Bill Fleckenstein Interview Jim Grant about “The End…
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The Importance of Co-Investors

By Adam Sharp on July 21, 2020

As online angel investors, there’s an easy metric we can use when judging possible investments. If we pay attention to who else is investing in a startup’s round (also known as co-investors), we can learn a lot about the quality of the deal.  For example, if…
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What We Should Learn From the Twitter Hack

By Adam Sharp on July 17, 2020

By now, you’ve probably heard about the major hack that occurred on Twitter. The accounts of Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Coinbase, Gemini, Barack Obama, Apple and others were taken over by bad actors on Wednesday. Once this individual (or group) successfully…

Profiting Off Misunderstanding

By Adam Sharp on July 17, 2020

Lately I’ve been analyzing  my investment history — both successes and failures. I noticed that all my winning investments have one thing in common. In almost all cases, I understood something that the market didn’t. That may sound a bit strange (or arrogant). So…
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Updated AngelList Dashboard Tracks Portfolio Performance

By Adam Sharp on July 14, 2020

Over recent months, AngelList has made some major updates to their investor dashboard (if you haven’t been given access to the new dashboard yet, they should be rolling it out to you soon). To access the dashboard, log into Angel.co and…

Protect Your Portfolio While You Can

By Adam Sharp on July 10, 2020

It’s a strange world out there for investors today. Stocks in the U.S. are very expensive — despite the fact that S&P 500 earnings may drop 40% in the second quarter. Investment grade bonds yield tiny amounts that amount to basically…
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Accredited Investors Have the Advantage — For Now

By Adam Sharp on July 7, 2020

Today in America, accredited investors still have a major advantage over non-accredited investors (approximately 92% of America).  We can invest in all private startup and company deals, including those on sites like AngelList. These Regulation D deals have no limit on the amount of money the…
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AngelList Access Funds Show Promise

By Adam Sharp on June 30, 2020

Let’s talk about AngelList Access funds. These funds allow you to make a single investment and get exposure to the hundreds of top startup deals that take place on AngelList. I wrote about them back in January. Now,…
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‘Money Printer Go Brrr’ Goes Mainstream

By Adam Sharp on June 26, 2020

We’ve been talking about the inevitability of massive money printing for the past few years. It’s one of the big reasons I like crypto so much. Now everyone, including mainstream CNBC shows like “Fast Money,” are talking about how the Federal Reserve’s actions are causing stock prices to go up.

Roundup: Overvalued Stocks, Gold, and more

By Adam Sharp on June 26, 2020

This has been a busy week filled with important news and information. So today we’re doing a news round-up — along with brief commentary on each story. Let’s go. The S&P 500 priced in gold One of my favorite financial analysts, Lyn…