My bank insults me. They slap my face and give me the bird. One-tenth of 1% interest on my savings accounts? C’mon. That insults my intelligence. It mocks my wallet. But now, thanks to new crowdfunding sites that focus on yield, I can slap them back. Today we’re going to…
$1 trillion is a ridiculous number. With 12 zeroes, it takes a couple of inches just to write it: $1,000,000,000,000. Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, here’s a little piece of trivia for you: For the first time ever, U.S. student loan debt now exceeds $1 trillion. After home…
Get ready for action… Over the next several weeks, we’re going to break out our “crystal ball”! Wondering who’s going to win the Super Bowl, or the men’s downhill in the Winter Olympics? Umm, if so, you might be reading the wrong email… But if you’re looking for predictions about…
We’ll make this short and sweet… Happy New Year from Matt & Wayne and the rest of the Crowdability team! We wish you and your families nothing but the best in 2014. But one quick order of business before we let you go back to celebrating (or nursing a hangover).…
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“Wow, what a year!” said my Crowdability co-founder, Matt Milner. We were sitting on an Amtrak train headed back to New York City. We were sipping scotch and winding down after a whirlwind business trip. Matt was right – it has been a heck of a year – and we’ve…
“I know what to give them, let’s send everyone a funny Christmas card photo of us wearing the ugliest sweaters ever!” That little gem of a suggestion came from one of the interns here at Crowdability HQ. You see, we’ve been kicking around different ideas for “holiday gifts” for you…
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Can you imagine losing $119 billion in a single day? That might sound like an impossible amount of money to lose in any amount of time, but in the high-stakes world of startups, it really can happen in a day. And whenever there’s a “loser” in a zero-sum situation like…
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Every year, Forbes Magazine publishes the “Midas List” – a list of the top U.S. venture capital firms. The folks on this list are professional investors with a track record of success – so if you’re interested in early-stage investing and want to emulate the best of the best, you should…
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Imagine yourself sitting in a high-backed leather chair in an oak-paneled office. The year is 1905, and the first Ford Model-T’s have started to dot the road. You live in Detroit, Michigan – ground zero for the automotive industry – and work at a small investment fund. Entrepreneurs visit you…
When we hear about “startup investing,” we generally think of the big paydays that occur when an early-stage company is acquired or goes public – like Google, Facebook or Tumblr. And historically, it’s true: profits from early-stage investing have come from “exits” like an IPO or a big acquisition. But…
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