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Startup Insider: All About Options With Jeff Bishop
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 and trading site. In this episode of Startup Insider, Jeff gives Vin Narayanan and Allison Brickell an options overview,…
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New Pick: A Radically Decentralized Space for Software Developers
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 fun of me mercilessly. But it’s true. Timing the crypto market is almost impossible. It’s so volatile that the…
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New Pick: A Biotech Startup on the Verge of Curing Cancer
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 cancer drug development for decades… but to no avail. Oncolyze, the anti-cancer biotech startup…
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New Pick: An Ethereum Scaling Solution With Impressive Early Growth
I don’t think we’re in a crypto bull market yet. There’s too much near-term regulatory uncertainty with the SEC going after Coinbase and Bittrex and declaring Algorand (ALGO), Dash (DASH), OmiseGO (OMG), and others securities. That combined with economic uncertainty and inflation concerns means there is still significant downward pressure in the markets. I do think the bear market is…
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New Pick: The Likely Dominant Player in Crypto Data Storage
It’s easy to think about crypto as a series of prices that go up and down. It’s even easier to think about crypto as a series of prices that go up when bitcoin goes up and go down when bitcoin goes down. But the reality is far more complicated than that. In crypto, fundamentals matter. And three of the most…
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New Pick: A Lucrative Opportunity to Destroy Harmful “Forever” Chemicals
Editor’s Note: This recommendation was co-authored by KingsCrowd Senior Investment Research Analyst Léa Bouhelier-Gautreau. I take due diligence seriously. When I investigate a startup investment opportunity, I spend countless hours reading through the raise page and SEC filings. I scour the internet researching any science or technology that might be involved. I take a deep dive into the industry the…
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New Pick: Invest in the Future of Sports Coaching
Golf is my favorite sport. There is nothing better than teeing it up early on a Sunday morning. But here’s the problem. I’m pretty bad. And unless you’ve put in an enormous amount of time to develop your game, you are probably pretty bad too. Golf is an incredibly technical sport that requires expensive lessons and equipment to improve. (If…
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Two Coins You Should Sell Right Now
Don’t let this recent bitcoin rally fool you. Even though bitcoin is up about 5% over the last seven days and up 20% over the last month, the markets are in a dangerous spot. Much of bitcoin’s rally can be attributed to a big bet placed by Balaji Srinivasan, Coinbase’s former chief technology officer and an extraordinarily gifted crypto mind…
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KMX Technologies Attracts Powerful Partners
KMX Technologies is raising again. We recommended the company to you last July at a $40 million valuation. At the time, everything was beginning to come together for the company and its innovative approach to lithium production. So it’s not surprising that KMX has made significant strides since then, including signing a major licensing deal and winning a Canadian government…
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Where Silvergate, SVB and Signature Went Wrong
For people my age, Han Solo telling Luke Skywalker “Great, kid! Don’t get cocky!” after Luke shot down a ship for the first time is a seminal movie moment. As a kid, I didn’t even know what “cocky” meant! But I knew the line was hilarious. I repeated it over and over again — no doubt annoying everyone around me.…
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Three Cryptos to Stay Far, Far Away From
It’s tough being a crypto investor. Unlike stock market investors or even startup investors, crypto investors typically have to deal with significant information deficits. There simply isn’t as much information about many of the coins out there. What information there is requires a significant amount of effort to access. Sifting through Telegram, Discord, GitHub and the internet for scraps of…
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New Pick: Crypto Payments Without the Headache
Note: This recommendation was co-authored by KingsCrowd Investment Research Manager Olivia Strobl. Both Olivia and I have played in the cryptocurrency space for years. Like many crypto enthusiasts, we were first drawn to digital assets for their versatility. The blockchain — which powers cryptocurrency — has a number of use cases, from peer-to-peer transactions to international payments. Now, thanks to…
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Behind the Pick: This Crypto Has an Optimistic Future
Long-term crypto investors need to be somewhat optimistic. We know that crypto investing is risky, and no investment is guaranteed. That’s why we need to believe that the crypto industry will continue to grow and that the projects we invest in have a shot at success. Optimism is more than just a mindset, though. It’s also something you can invest…
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Crypto Investors Are in Uncharted Territory
Crypto Market Musings We’re in uncharted territory. There have been other crypto bear markets. But this is the first time that crypto has navigated an economic down cycle. And we’re discovering that crypto — including bitcoin — can’t escape the gravitational pull of macroeconomic headwinds. The crypto markets fell when we found out that the personal consumption expenditures price index…
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New Pick: An Optimistic Crypto With Forward Momentum
I used to write about horse racing for a living. It was a long time ago. And it was fun! I loved going to the track and talking to trainers, watching people place bets, reveling in the ferocious thunder of hooves hitting the dirt in the stretch run, and hearing crowds roar as horses approached the finish line. It was…
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This Startup Is Helping to Democratize Real Estate Investing
Note: This recommendation was co-authored by KingsCrowd Investment Research Manager Olivia Strobl. It’s always fun when I come across other companies that share KingsCrowd’s goal of making investing more accessible. Simplifying alternative asset investing — like real estate, startup, collectibles, and art investing — is key to helping people build lasting wealth. That’s why I was eager to cover EquityMultiple,…