After nearly eight years of cutting interest rates, the Fed finally hit us with a rate hike yesterday.

Many investors are wary of higher interest rates, and understandably so:

When money becomes more expensive, businesses (and stock prices) tend to suffer.

In fact, historically, whenever the Fed has raised rates,…

Trying to pick a single start-up that will become “the next Microsoft” or “the next Google” is pretty risky.

Even wildly successful venture capitalists strike out more than half the time.

So what should an individual investor like you do?

The Key to Market-Beating Returns

The key to making money…

History Has Been Made

It finally happened:

After three years of politics as usual, the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission just enacted the last remaining piece of The JOBS Act.

The JOBS Act is a set of laws that opens up the private equity markets…

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Made might be the wrong word here. Raised is more like it.

You see, when Matt and I first launched Crowdability, we raised $1 million from investors to help grow our business.

From start to finish, it took us 21 days to pull together the entire investment.

Relatively speaking, that’s…

Last weekend, my fiancée and I were catching up on old Shark Tank episodes.

We love to watch entrepreneurs pitch their start-up ideas to “Sharks” like Mark Cuban and Barbara Corcoran.

But after the Sharks said “I’m out!” to some start-ups I was bullish on—and I said “Definite pass!” to…

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Silicon Valley Workers Take LSD at…

Like you, I’ve lived through my fair share of bull markets:

Junk bonds...

The dot-com boom...

The housing boom.

And if you know how to play these markets, you can walk away with a great deal of money.

But most investors lose money in these situations.

That’s because they make…

Every year, the journal Popular Science releases a special list…

It’s a list of the 100 greatest innovations of the year—from bionic arms and pain-free dentistry, to life-saving remedies that could change our world.

As I was browsing through this year’s honorees, one of them caught my eye:

It was…

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Ride the “Whale Bus”

A series…