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First Stage Investor – Issue No. 1
Four Steps to Become a Successful Private Investor Today By Adam Sharp, Co-Founder, First Stage Investor Dear Member, Welcome! And thank you for joining First Stage Investor. As promised, I have three recommendations in this issue that I can’t wait to tell you about. But before I do, I want to take the time to help familiarize you with this…
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How to Find Your Own Winning Private Early-Stage Opportunities
Equity crowdfunding is different from public sector investing. But with just a little information, investing in startups can be easy and fun… Especially when you do it alongside us. We’ll do most of the heavy lifting, tracking dozens of positions on our watch list. And then we’ll pass you our comprehensively researched recommendations… saving you time and making you a…
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How to Find Your Own Winning Private Early-Stage Opportunities
.main article time{display:none;} Equity crowdfunding is different from public sector investing. But with just a little information, investing in startups can be easy and fun… Especially when you do it alongside us. We’ll do most of the heavy lifting, tracking dozens of positions on our watch list. And then we’ll pass you our comprehensively researched recommendations… saving you time and…
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The Conservative Investor’s Guide to Early-Stage Investing
By its very nature, early-stage investing is a high-risk, high-reward endeavor. When you invest at the beginning of a company’s journey, the rewards can be outstanding. However, there are real risks – and understanding them is important. The fact is that many startup companies fail. That’s why you shouldn’t invest too much of your portfolio into equity crowdfunding deals. I…
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The Perfect Way to Avoid the Penny Stock Trap
Investing is hard enough without being cheated, scammed or lied to. You know the old rule of thumb. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Good example: penny stocks. Sure, a $0.10 stock that moves up the coin ladder to a quarter will give you a 150% return. What’s not to like, right? Turns out, plenty.…
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Update on Care at Hand
Dear Startup Investor, Care at Hand is based in Washington, D.C. I’m in Baltimore, an hour away. So when Dr. Andrey Ostrovsky, the founder and CEO of Care at Hand, invited me to dinner, I hopped in my car, drove down I-95 and met him at the Blue Duck Tavern in Georgetown. We ate. We drank. And we talked for…
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Reminder: Barbara Corcoran Venture Partners Fund (Exclusive)
Dear Startup Investor, Time is running out… Your chance to invest alongside Barbara Corcoran (of Shark Tank fame) and her partner, savvy veteran investor Phil Nadel, won’t be around much longer. On December 31, the fund officially closes. This is your last chance to participate in an opportunity brimming with upside. Barbara and Phil have demonstrated time and again…
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Episode 32 – Early Investing w/ Oscar Jofre of KoreConX
Oscar Jofre is a passionate believer in and promoter of equity crowdfunding. His website KoreConX.com is a free all-in-one solution that helps companies navigate the process of raising equity capital. It also helps simplify shareholder communications to reduce risk. In addition, KoreConX offers a number of features that are helpful to investors in startup companies. Most are free, and there…
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Special Investment Alert: Privy
Dear Startup Investor, We recommended Privy last September. At the time, we were convinced that Privy was tackling and solving a big problem. And we liked its user-friendly dashboard. To refresh your memory… Its platform gives retailers tools that track when a customer redeems a store’s online offer. Not only that, but it also gives retailers another option beyond loyalty…
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New Recommendation: mPrest
Dear Startup Investor, This investment opportunity should not exist. But the Internet of Things – known simply as IoT – is getting off to a slow start. Not in terms of size. The market is massive thanks to cheap, easily available off-the-shelf sensors. They’re going into everything… Cars. Pipes. Factories. Engines. Power grids. Home appliances. We use millions of personal…
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2015 STARTUP INVESTOR SUMMIT
Unicorn Hunting: Finding Great Startup Investments Online Adam Sharp, Co-Founder, Early Investing The Private Secondary Market – The Shift from Public Markets to Private Late Stage Investing Bill Papp, Senior Vice President of Sales and Operations, MicroVentures Accessing a New Source of Alpha: Investing in Innovation Scott Dubin, Director of Investor Relations, OurCrowd Evolution or Revolution? Has Venture Investing Really…
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New Recommendation: Barbara Corcoran Venture Partners Fund (Exclusive)
Dear Startup Investor, We’ve been working on this next recommendation for a while. It took some doing, but we’ve arranged a unique opportunity for you to invest alongside Barbara Corcoran Venture Partners (BCVP). It’s an early-stage fund with a $10,000 minimum investment. For $10,000, you’ll get access to equity in 10 to 20 startups in the form of a fund…
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Episode 26 – Early Investing w/ Jason Fritton Patch of Land
Everybody wants a patch of land they can call their own… and Jason Fritton is no exception. As one of the founders of the real estate funding site Patch of Land, Jason has been one of the pioneers in this new land rush. On this episode he gives us some insight on how the company is doing and how easy it is…
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Portfolio Update
Dear Startup Investor, March was a busy month for our companies. Appvance, SpeechTrans and Connect made significant upgrades to their products. And our two startup portal companies continue to upgrade and expand. Below we update you on nine of our 23 holdings (not including our latest recommendation)… That’s the early-stage fund we’re doing with our friends at MicroVentures. The…
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Early Stage Multi-Company Fund
Dear Startup Investor, Not all funds that invest in startups are created equal… I’ve tracked dozens of them over the past few years. I found that the truly outstanding ones are run by managers with a knack for identifying winners. And that’s why I’m so excited about our new fund partnership with MicroVentures. It’s another exclusive for Startup Investor members.…
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Early Stage Multi-Company Fund (Partner: MicroVentures)
Dear Startup Investor, Not all funds that invest in startups are created equal… I’ve tracked dozens of them over the past few years. I found that the truly outstanding ones are run by managers with a knack for identifying winners. And that’s why I’m so excited about our new fund partnership with MicroVentures. It’s another exclusive for Startup Investor members.…