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Real Estate Returns Versus Stocks
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. — Adam Sharp Life only has a few real certainties.…
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The Power of the Private Market
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 around $15 billion. So it might surprise you to learn that Domino’s shares have outperformed Google’s since the…
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Invest in Connecting With Customers
DEAL DETAILS Startup: goDeskless Security type: Crowd note Valuation (cap): $7 million Discount rate: 20% Minimum investment: $100 Where to invest: MicroVentures Deadline: August 17, 2020 Conversion provisions: The company has the option to convert the crowd note into nonvoting preferred stock at a valuation no higher than $7 million or at a 20% discount on the price investors pay…
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Webinar Reminder: Meet Republic’s CEO
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 a new startup recommendation. In the past few weeks, we’ve written extensively about the Republic Note. In…
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How to Play the End Game
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 Game” In this podcast, three of my favorite financial voices discuss what the coming financial…
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Upcoming Webinar: Meet Republic’s CEO
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 members invest in the Note. The reason we’re so impressed with the Note is it instantly diversifies and derisks startup…
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Republic Note: Invest NOW for a Lifetime of Revenue
Deal Details Startup: Republic Core Security type: Profit-sharing token Cap: $8 million Price per note: $0.12 Minimum investment: $100 Where to invest: Republic Deadline: Today (The $8 million cap is almost sold out. Anyone with a serious interest should invest immediately.) I’ve come across dozens of digital tokens built on the promise of huge profits from future services provided…
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The Republic Note is an Opportunity Unlike Any Other
Crowdfunding has come a long way. It’s far more diverse and interesting than it was just a year ago. There are investment portals that now offer a way to buy and sell shares of startups whose raises have ended. There are portals that offer crowdfunders shares of startups that are raising from angel investors and venture capitalists on the same…
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Invest in Fixing the Trucking Industry
Deal Details Startup: Fleeting Security type: Crowd SAFE Discount: 20% Valuation (cap): $10 million Minimum investment: $100 Where to invest: Republic Deadline: Invest ASAP! Raise is almost filled up What I do is very simple. I try to find very small companies solving very big problems. Simple for me. Quite hard for the small company. Fleeting, though, is up to…
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AngelList Access Funds Show Promise
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, AngelList has posted some return numbers for their original funds. And it’s looking very good so far. The August 2015 fund had…
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Invest in the Startup Changing HR
TV has made dysfunctional families (Arrested Development) and companies (The Office) cute and funny. They’re not. And maybe that’s why we watch these shows. If we don’t laugh, we’d probably cry. I’m not sure how one would restore a dysfunctional family to emotional health. But now there’s a remarkable company – People First RH – whose online platform lets companies…
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Understanding the Difference Between Private Equity and Startup Investing
Vanguard Group, the investment fund giant with $6.2 trillion of assets under management, announced Wednesday it is launching private equity funds that may soon be available for many people to invest in. Here’s how Institutional Investor described the development: Vanguard Group is shaking up private equity, offering its first funds focused on the asset class through a partnership with HarbourVest…
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How to Naturally Diversify Your Portfolio
When it comes to startup investing, I am “industry agnostic.” In other words, I never invest in a deal just because it’s in a certain sector. Instead, I evaluate every deal individually. I look at the fundamentals, model, team and growth rate. This approach has naturally led to me to have a diversified portfolio across many different sectors. I’ve invested…
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More Institutional Proof for Bitcoin
This week we received more proof that institutions are buying up Bitcoin. I highly recommend reading this recent Decrypt piece titled “Hedge funds are buying Bitcoin despite Goldman Sachs’ skepticism.” Here’s an excerpt: Since Bitcoin’s block reward halving, digital asset manager Grayscale Investments has purchased more Bitcoin, on behalf of its institutional clients, than has been mined. The world’s largest…
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The New Work-From-Home Economy
I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about the long-term effects of the COVID-19 crisis lately. And the one thing I keep coming back to is the new work-from-home trend. This is going to change our economy in ways we can’t even imagine yet. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg recently said that up to 50% of their employees could be working…
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Invest In A Wine Startup With A Massive Inventory
Deal Details Startup: Yahyn Security type: Common equity Round size: Up to $20 million Valuation: $4,955,781 Share price: $44.38 Minimum investment: $133.14 Raise: Seed Investment Portal: Netcapital Deadline: June 30, 2020 COVID-19 is changing our world in so many ways. Socially. Professionally. Financially too. It’s decimating many industries. And creating huge opportunities in other industries. The key to investing in this…