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Most-Shorted Stocks Are Excelling Beyond Reason
Market manias sure are intoxicating to watch, aren’t they? Right now almost everybody’s making money in the markets (except bears). All the major indexes are basically at all-time highs. The Nasdaq-100 is up 48% over the past 12 months and 552% over the last 10 years. Energy, crypto, emerging markets, metals and pot stocks have all joined the party too.…
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New Pick: Invest in the Next Generation of Medical Masks
Deal Details Startup: Canopy Security type: Crowd IPA* Price per security: $5.61 Valuation (cap): $6.5 million Minimum investment: $100.98 Where to invest: Republic Deadline: May 1, 2021 *Crowd IPA (Interests Purchase Agreement) is a simple agreement to acquire membership units of a limited liability company. The pandemic has created a desperate need for N95 masks. And desperate buyers tend not…
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Bitcoin Shows Strength After Correction
It appears that the crypto correction is over for now, but I’m glad it happened. We did need to slow down a bit after bitcoin shot practically straight up from $20k to $40k, and altcoins soared. Those kinds of moves are unsustainable in the short term. So it’s actually quite good that the market cooled off and collected itself. The…
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GameStop Losses: Right Strategy, Wrong Asset
A lot of people lost a lot of money in GameStop this week. I feel for them — especially since I have been there myself. As I write this, GameStop is trading at around $66, down from a high of more than $450 last Friday. It was trading around $255 when I wrote the following last week. The game these…
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Update: 20/20 GeneSystems Grows Revenue Sevenfold
Yesterday I wrote about how the medtech and healthcare sector is seeing amazing growth. It’s one of my favorite sectors to look for promising startups in. But my love of this sector is nothing new. And today I want to give you an update on one of my favorite medtech startups. I originally recommended 20/20 GeneSystems in December 2017 —…
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Bitcoin and Startups: Better Revolutionary Assets
For the last week, all eyes have been on GameStop (GME). Millions of users from forums such as Reddit’s WallStreetBets have piled into shares and call options of the wounded mall retailer, causing a short squeeze of epic proportions. GME shares rose from less than $4.00 just six months ago to more than $460 this week. Large hedge funds that…
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New Pick: Invest in Fully Staffed Pharmacies
Deal Details Startup: ShiftPosts Deadline: Friday, January 29th, midnight Security type: Convertible note Valuation cap: $4 million Interest rate: 10% Note term: 36 months Minimum investment: $1,000 Where to invest: SeedInvest Let’s cast our eyes northward for a moment. There are 11,000 pharmacies in Canada. And a quarter of them rely on a single company to ensure that they always…
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Government Regulations Are Creating Investment Opportunities
I recently said that government-driven opportunities are one of my favorite drivers of upside and profit. This is what I wrote: “When a new [government] rule allows a product or activity that was previously prohibited or the opposite — or when they ban or prohibit something previously allowed — entirely new market opportunities are created.” I know this for a…
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Three Factors that Signal Upside Potential
Sometimes it’s good to go back to basics. And one of the basics that every investor has to consider before making a startup investment is upside — does this startup have the right pieces put together to provide significant upside on my investment? That question often isn’t easy to answer. There are a lot of factors that decide whether a…
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The Disadvantages of a SPAC Investment
Special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) are enjoying their moment in the sun. They’ve shot into prominence as a way for startups to make an initial public offering (IPO) and join public stock exchanges. They offer founders unprecedented speed. And for some investors — more on that later — they can provide unique advantages. There were double the number of SPAC…
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Bitcoin vs. Altcoins: A Lopsided Battle
Investors often ask me why I focus so much on bitcoin instead of altcoins. I get why people ask this question. Bitcoin is already huge. And many investors assume they’ve already missed the boat, so they want to find the next bitcoin. Here’s the thing. Most people still don’t realize just how far ahead bitcoin is in this race. Bitcoin…
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New Pick: Invest in Incredibly Accurate and Fast Food Safety Tests
Deal Details Startup: SnapDNA Security type: Crowd SAFE Discount: 10% Valuation (cap): $28 million Minimum investment: $150 Where to invest: Republic Deadline: April 28, 2021 I know exactly what my perfect startup looks like. It begins with delivering a solution that is badly — almost desperately — needed. And nobody else is even close to bringing it to market. Then,…
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The Strength of Early-Stage Companies
We live in a remarkably disruptive time. New technologies are changing the way almost every industry operates. There’s a lot of opportunity for innovative companies to make a big impact. But we also live in a very unique time when it comes to finance and monetary policy. Interest rates have never been anywhere close to this low for this long.…
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2020 Turned Into a Great Year for Crypto
It’s been an amazing year in crypto! We had a nasty dip in the spring — followed by a roaring comeback once people realized crypto was created for these economic times (massive money printing and even lower interest rates). Things are truly starting to get interesting now. Our long-awaited institutional rush into crypto is finally underway — and I expect…
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Six Crypto Predictions for 2021
Today I’m going to try to make some predictions about the crypto markets in 2021. Let’s dust off the crystal ball and get started. Here’s what I think will happen: Bitcoin will reach at least $50,000 next year. At least five more large publicly-traded companies will buy bitcoin as a hedge. These new companies will join MicroStrategy and Square in…
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A Bright Future: Startups, Bitcoin and DeFi
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 — and it’s weird that I feel compelled to specify that). I have no idea…