About 556 articles by Matthew Milner

How to Double Your Money with Liquid Death

They say you should invest in what you know and love.

“Well,” you might say, “I love to drink. Does that count?”

Funny you should ask…

Beverages as Startup Investments

Beverage products can make great startup investments — especially now, as a wave of M&A is happening. For example:

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How To Sell Your Used Tablet for $5.04 million

Imagine stumbling across something at home that’s worth a fortune…

An old painting, a vintage necklace, a slab of marble sitting outside.

Well, in the true story you’re about to read, that’s exactly what happened.

A used tablet — in fact, a very used tablet — was recently discovered.

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Tags: Alternative investments

$2.3 Million Startup Built in High-School Bathroom Stall

I expect this to be one of the stranger stories you’ve heard about recently.

It’s about a startup that just raised millions from top investors. Now it stands a good shot at beating the odds and becoming successful. But that’s not the strange part…

What’s so strange is how darn…

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The #1 Most Profitable Investment — Ever

What was the #1 most profitable investment of all time?

Was it Warren Buffett’s investment in Coca-Cola in 1987?

Was it picking up shares of Amazon or Netscape in the 90s?

Or was it something more unexpected?

I recently came across a list of the world’s most profitable, documented investments.

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How To Avoid “Market Whiplash”

Being an investor can give you whiplash.

Just yesterday, it seemed like you had a perfect investment plan. But today, a talking head on CNBC is preaching about how wrong your strategy is.

So, should you stick with your Magnificent Seven stocks, your QQQ, your 60/40 portfolio, or whichever plan…

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Forget Stocks — Invest in Legos for $500,000 in Profits

A couple of years ago, 35-year-old Shane O’Farrell realized something:

Investing in stocks for the long-term wasn’t going to work for him. The returns were too low. As he said, stocks won’t “get me where I want to go. It would take decades.”

So he tried something else: investing in…

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Tags: Lego

Here’s Your Shot at Getting Shares of TikTok

The stock market’s recent highs are being driven by one main factor: seven big tech companies known as The Magnificent 7.

To see what all the fuss is about, check out how their stocks performed last year:

  • Nvidia (NVDA): Up 239%.
  • Meta Platforms (META): Up 194%.
  • Tesla (TSLA): Up…

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Oddball Investors Use AI to Make 10x Their Money

There’s a million ways to make a buck, right?

Today I’ll tell you a story about one of the stranger ones.

After you hear about it, you might be tempted to try it yourself. After all, if a bunch of oddball investors could use it to make 10x their money,…

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