Editor's Note: You rely on Crowdability to bring you the best deals. Now, rely on us to share the most up-to-date news, trends and opinion. You won’t find this stuff in the mainstream press. Look for it every Friday morning at 8am EST. This Week’s Best Reading Doing The Hustle, State by State…
Tags: Equity Crowdfunding Angel Investing Venture Capital Uber SEC Howard Lindzon
Yesterday San Francisco 49ers' Quarterback, Colin Kaepernick, signed a 6-year, $126 million contract. Imagine if he had offered you a cut of his future earnings for an upfront cash payment? That would've been huge. Well, a new crowdfunding platform is offering you just that: They’re giving you access to the future…
What’s the #1 reason a start-up fails? It runs out of money! And why would it run out of money? Because nobody wants the product it’s selling! For early-stage investors, this presents a bit of a conundrum: If a product doesn’t exist yet, how do you figure out if there’s…
Editor's Note: You rely on Crowdability to bring you the best deals. Now, rely on us to share the most up-to-date news, trends and opinion. You won’t find this stuff in the mainstream press. Look for it every Friday morning at 8am EST. This Week’s Best Reading Uber: The Next…
Tags: Equity Crowdfunding Angel Investing Startups Uber Early-stage Investing Fred Wilson Start-ups
Equity Crowdfunding is on a roll. Angels have already invested $393 million into deals on the biggest platforms. And this is still the first inning: many predict this new form of venture capital will become a $300 billion industry. To put that in perspective, traditional sources of early-stage financing, like venture capital,…
It’s true: I can be a little argumentative sometimes. It’s also true that I enjoy a lively “debate.” Oh, and I love to take a joke too far. But those aren’t the reasons my friends hate me right now. They hate me because they’ve been glued to their computer screens…
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Editor's Note: You rely on Crowdability to bring you the best equity crowdfunding deals. Now, rely on us to share the most up-to-date news, trends and opinion. This is the stuff you won’t read in the mainstream press, and the stuff that will keep you on the leading edge of…
Tags: Equity Crowdfunding Biotech Startups Ourcrowd JOBS Act Start-ups Y Combinator Cisco Mark Suster
Rule #1 for investing in start-ups? Diversification. If you’re properly diversified, we believe you can earn the same level of returns as professional angel investors. Last week, I discussed this belief with Dr. Richard Swart, the head of UC Berkeley’s crowdfunding research initiative. As we traded points of view, Dr.…
Picture your favorite sports team. Now imagine that you’re sitting on your couch, browsing their website before a game… When suddenly you see that you can buy a piece of the team! You wouldn’t just be a fan anymore… you’d be an owner. You’d probably become even more passionate. I’ve been a New…
Every so often a “Big Bang” occurs in the start-up world... A new company emerges that gives birth to an entirely new industry. These companies reach such scale that they create a universe of other businesses in their orbit. We call these Big Bang companies, “platforms.” Facebook, Apple, Google… each of them…
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