The Kauffman Foundation’s Angel Investor Performance Project (AIPP) was literally the largest study ever conducted on the returns of early-stage investing.

To gather the data, the authors took results from 539 individual angel investors, and 86 different angel investor groups. These angels were involved with 1,130 companies.

Many investors and…

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: Cyber security Tesla

Did you vote last week?

Your fellow Crowdability subscribers sure did!

We held the vote so you could pick the topic of Crowdability’s next sector report.

It was a close race, but the winner is… the IoT sector.

Those three letters represent one of the hottest trends in tech today:

Last week in Rio, Michael Phelps went out on a high note:

After leading the U.S. swim team to victory in the 400-meter relay—and receiving a record-high 23^rd Olympic gold medal—Phelps hung up his goggles and retired.

Meanwhile, a similar situation was taking place closer to home:

The Dow, the…

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Saved by a Tesla

With all the recent press about Tesla’s “auto-pilot” technology leading to crashes and deaths,…

Wow!

I figured I’d get a big response to my essay last week...

But the volume of replies just blew me away.

I asked who wanted a free research report on the cyber security sector—and literally thousands of Crowdability readers raised their hands.

But you know…

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…

This Week in Tech

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Tags: Money managers Virtual reality

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…

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,…