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A Unique Startup Investment Opportunity
As many of you know, the Early Investing team joined forces with KingCrowd last year. KingsCrowd is a startup whose goal is to provide all investors with institutional grade ratings and analytics for the startup space. In essence, it wants to become the Morningstar or Moody’s for the startup space. KingsCrowd has started by rating all Regulation CF (crowdfunding) deals. From there, KingsCrowd is moving into Regulation…
Bitcoin’s Surge: Supply and Demand in Action
By Vin Narayanan on January 7, 2021
As I write this, bitcoin is trading around $38,300. That means investors that bought bitcoin at the previous market peak in late 2017/early 2018 are up 100%. And people that bought bitcoin at the beginning of 2020 are up about 432%. So why is bitcoin surging…
Making the Most of 2021: New Year’s Resolutions
By Vin Narayanan on December 30, 2020
Traditionally, I haven’t been a big New Year’s resolutions guy. Which is weird — because I love life hacks. I’m always looking for the best fitness app, the best portfolio tracking tool, the best note taking tool… you get the picture. I used to view New…
Closing Soon: Last Chance to Invest in Winc
By Vin Narayanan on December 28, 2020
About a month ago, the founders of Winc joined Andy and me on Startup Insider (click here to watch). They wanted to update the First Stage Investor members that invested in them on their progress. And they wanted to…
A Bright Future: Startups, Bitcoin and DeFi
By Vin Narayanan on December 21, 2020
I am hopeful. That’s not an easy sentence for me to write here at the end of 2020. Even as the new year approaches, there’s still plenty to be concerned about. A close friend’s dad has taken a turn for the worse (not COVID related —…
Bitcoin Breaks Past $20,000 Mark
By Vin Narayanan on December 17, 2020
Bitcoin did it! On Wednesday, bitcoin cracked the $20,000 mark and set a new all time high at $22,065.07. When I wrote to you last week, bitcoin was trading around $18,000. And I was hoping bitcoin would hang out around $18,000 for a…
The Technical Founder Myth
By Vin Narayanan on December 16, 2020
There are a lot of investing myths floating around out there. Here are a few common ones: You need a lot of money to invest. Cheap stocks have more upside than expensive stocks. You can’t make money when the market is crashing.
Slow and Steady is the Key to a Strong Crypto Asset
By Vin Narayanan on December 10, 2020
Slow and steady isn’t necessarily a bad thing — especially in crypto. Over the last seven days, the price of bitcoin has dropped about $1,000. As I write this, bitcoin is trading around $18,200. And that’s OK. In fact, if bitcoin decides to pitch a tent…
Be Ready for Direct Listings
By Vin Narayanan on December 9, 2020
I’m starting to think IPOs — initial public offerings — are overrated. That’s a really weird thing for an early investor to say. Because for early investors, the IPO is the holy grail. It’s why you invest in startups. An IPO is one of the few moments in…
Diversify Your Crypto Portfolio
By Vin Narayanan on December 2, 2020
Bitcoin cracked the $19,800 mark this week. It’s likely only a matter of time before bitcoin tops $20,000 and sets new all time highs. Who knows? As you read this, bitcoin could already be over $20,000. It’s a terrific time to be a bitcoin investor. In…
Economic Freedom Plan
By Vin Narayanan on September 30, 2020
I’ve been thinking a lot about freedom in the wake of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s passing. As Americans, freedom is in our DNA. It’s written into the Declaration of Independence. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created…
Republic Founder Kendrick Nguyen Discusses Crowdfunding’s Future
By Vin Narayanan on August 5, 2020
Last week, Republic founder and CEO Kendrick Nguyen joined us for an exclusive live webinar. As many of you know, Republic is one of the most innovative equity crowdfunding platforms. In addition to helping everyday investors like you and me invest in startups, they also provide access to…
Webinar Reminder: Meet Republic’s CEO
By Vin Narayanan on July 27, 2020
Editor’s Note: In case you missed it, we’re hosting a special webinar with Republic founder and CEO Kendrick Nguyen on Thursday at 3 p.m. ET/noon PT. The invitation is below. We hope you join us. Andy Gordon will be back on Thursday with…
Upcoming Webinar: Meet Republic’s CEO
By Vin Narayanan on July 22, 2020
In the past few weeks, we’ve written extensively about the Republic Note. In early July, Andy Gordon first reported on the Note — calling it an opportunity unlike any other. And on Monday, Andy recommended that our First Stage Investor…
Startup Insider: Investing During a Pandemic
By Vin Narayanan on July 9, 2020
We have a special Thursday edition of Startup Insider for you this week. In this week’s show, Adam Sharp and I talk about how to approach investing in the middle of a pandemic. Watch the video below. Or read on for more details on the topics we covered…
Early Investing Webinar with Republic CEO
By Vin Narayanan on July 1, 2020
We know that many of you were unable to attend our webinar with Republic’s Chuck Pettid last week. So if you missed our discussion about crowdfunding real estate and video game investments, here’s the video so you can watch it at your leisure (you can also read more…