Yesterday you took a brief quiz on angel investing.
You were tasked with evaluating five early-stage companies and determining whether or not you’d invest.
How do you think you did?
Well you’re about to find out...
Start-up #1 – Coffee Bean Retailer
Remember the coffee company started by two teachers…
Just before 11 p.m. on a recent Sunday evening, we were alerted to the presence of a gruesome set of written confessions.
We quickly inspected them, but found no revelations of adultery, theft, or murder.
No--their subject matter was of a far more unusual type:
They were confessions of failure…
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Can Technology Start-Ups…
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A 2008 study by entrepreneurship scholar Michael Song proved that the longer a new start-up stays in business, the higher its likelihood for eventual success.
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Peter Lynch was a rock star of a stock picker.
During his 13 years at the helm of Fidelity’s Magellan Fund, he racked up 29% annual returns.
To put that in perspective, a $50k investment would have grown to $1.4 million.
How did he accomplish this feat… and…
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Everyone has their own way of finding new trading opportunities.
Others trade on news or upcoming corporate actions.
We, on the other hand, are big fans of using our research into early-stage tech companies to guide our public stock market trades.
And it…
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I’m writing this from a white-washed island in Greece called Folegandros.
Yes, it’s summertime…
And I’m honoring the age-old investor tradition of “Sell in May, go away.”
Typically, I can’t get paid to travel like this…
But thanks to a new crowdfunding opportunity, now I can.
And so can you.
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Any gamblers in the house?
Here’s an interesting fact for you:
The odds of consistently winning at poker are about 5% to 10% -- that’s similar to the odds angel investors face when trying to pick winning start-ups.
Amazingly, despite the odds, an elite group of poker players consistently manages…
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