One Thing Successful Start-ups Have in Common

Many things can help make an early-stage company successful…

From creating the right product at the right time (like Uber), to creating an inspiring advertising campaign (like Apple’s “1984” commercial for the Macintosh.)

But if you dig deeper, you’ll find one variable that’s always there:

A successful start-up has the…

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Tags: Founders Start up-investing

A "Profit Picnic"

For the past 10 years, I’ve celebrated July 4th in the same way:

At a lopsided picnic table in the countryside, surrounded by friends, family, and mountains of beer and barbecue.

But this year, I introduced a few new items to the festivities…

And not only were these items delicious—

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Tags: Consumer products Wefunder

How Warren Buffett is helping me weather this storm...

Warren Buffet is one of the wealthiest and wisest investors in the world.

And over the years, his wisdom has helped me through some tough times in the market. Given the news from last week, maybe his wisdom can help you, too…

As you’re probably aware, global markets are still…

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Tags: Warren buffett

Three Investing Myths – Debunked

When it comes to investing, we’ve been lied to for nearly a century.

We’ve been told that if we take the investment path that’s “tried and true,” we’ll be able to retire comfortably, right on time.

But this couldn’t be further from the truth.

And today…

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Tags: Early stage-investing Stock market

Skin in the Game

Skin in the game.

Some investment newsletters have it...

Other don’t.

You see, while some newsletters make a big show about investing in the ideas they recommend, others insist on staying on the sidelines.

For many newsletters—and for investors like you—this topic inspires great debate:

Newsletters that invest could be…

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Tags: Investment newsletters

Read this before tomorrow...

You’ve already read about Wayne’s story, and about mine...

So today I want to tell you a little story about someone else.

This guy was in even worse financial shape than I was, but he still managed to transform his life.

He started out with nothing—he was really in a…

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