"Boring" Investment Delivers Big Gains

Corporate America is in the midst of a feeding frenzy:

In the last few weeks, big corporations have doled out $4.3 billion to acquire early-stage start-ups.

But in a strange twist, all these start-ups are in the same sector—and it’s not even an exciting sector like medical devices or cyber…

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Tags: Circleup Consumer products

Your Neighborhood Is Now a War Zone

This Week in Tech

You rely on Crowdability to bring you the best start-up deals. Now rely on us to bring you the most fascinating stories and trends from the world of technology. You won’t find this stuff in the mainstream press. Look for it every Friday morning.

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Tags: Money managers Virtual reality

The Greatest Transfer of Wealth in History

Two years ago in this newsletter, I told you about an exciting technology trend.

At the time, a high-ranking government official had just called it “the greatest transfer of wealth in history.”

In my article, I wrote about how this trend would deliver enormous returns to early investors—and I told…

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Tags: Cyber security Fireblade

Yahoo’s Loss – Your Gain!

Back in 2008, Microsoft offered to buy Yahoo for about $50 billion.

Yahoo rejected the offer as being “too low.”

Last week, a new deal for Yahoo came in—this time from Verizon.

The deal was worth just $4.6 billion, a fraction of what Microsoft had offered.

When Yahoo accepted it,…

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Tags: Early stage-investing Uber

$122 Million Payday for World's Worst CEO

You rely on Crowdability to bring you the best start-up deals. Now rely on us to bring you the most fascinating stories and trends from the world of technology. You won’t find this stuff in the mainstream press. Look for it every Friday morning.

Twitter Tries to Explain What the…

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Tags: Apple Twitter

Beat Buffett's Returns (proof inside)

People say Warren Buffett is the best investor in the world.

Well, maybe that was true once upon a time...

But now a new crop of investors is outperforming him.

Today, we’ll introduce you to one of the most interesting of these mavericks.

Not only will we show you how…

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Tags: Dave mcclure Warren buffett

Did You Just Make 166x Your Money?

Last week, Unilever acquired a start-up for $1 billion.

The start-up’s early investors made an estimated 166 times their money.

Some of these investors were ordinary folks just like you.

Actually… were you one of them?

Get a Shave!

The start-up I’m talking about is Dollar Shave Club.

Dollar Shave…

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Tags: Angellist syndicates Crowdfunding ma

Profit From Silicon Valley's Best Deals

Matt and I founded Crowdability with a simple mission:

To help everyday investors find and profit from the best start-up investments.

Initially, we compiled a list of the best sources for deals.

You see, there are hundreds of “funding platforms” out there (platforms are special websites that connect investors like…

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Tags: Angellist Republic

JP Morgan Caught Reading Crowdability

Has anyone ever “borrowed” one of your ideas and used it as their own?

If I’m not mistaken, it just happened to me—and I’m thrilled.

After all, isn’t imitation the sincerest form of flattery?

And since it was JP Morgan doing the imitating—and since the idea it borrowed was about…

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Tags: Adding alternatives Diversification