By this time next year, we’re predicting a flurry of IPO activity.

And I’m not talking about small IPOs. I’m talking about tech IPOs from Uber, Airbnb, and Snapchat. Multi-billion dollar offerings.

IPOs like this can create enormous wealth—especially for the investors who get in prior to the IPO.

So…

Tom Sawyer was a clever boy:

After skipping school to go swimming, he had to paint a fence as punishment.

But instead of doing the work himself, he got others to do it for him.

Today I’ll show you how to use this same strategy to invest in start-ups:

With…

Few things in life are guaranteed...

According to Benjamin Franklin, only two things fit that bill: death & taxes.

But there is one other thing you can bank on (literally)...

It involves a special type of investment.

And over the next couple of days, we’ll show you how this investment…

My dad used some strange parenting techniques.
Before every meal, for example, he insisted we eat dessert.

Häagen-Dazs coffee ice cream, chocolate cake, cinnamon buns—those were the “appetizers” around our kitchen table.

But as it turns out, he was using reverse psychology: after years of stuffing myself…

Back in college, I played in a rock band.

I’d love to tell you how great we were. But the truth is, everything about us was horrible, starting with our name: “The Drooling Dogs.”

But even worse than our name was our skills. You see, none of us…

First dates are like a roll of the dice:

Maybe you’ll have a blast (and even meet your mate)…

Or maybe the date will be a total write-off.

But here’s the thing:

If you can make it through a few dates with the same person, your odds…

I’m about to leave for my honeymoon!

Next week, my bride and I are flying to Sydney, Australia, then we’ll make our way to Byron Bay and the Great Barrier Reef.

Friends gave us suggestions for hotels, but we think it's more fun to rent cool apartments.

To find these…

OK, so now it’s legal for you to invest in start-ups.

Sounds exciting… but should you invest in start-ups?

After all, this is a new world, and it’s natural that you have concerns.

But if you’ve been hesitating, here’s something that might push you over the edge.

Silicon Valley’s Best…

A few years back, I sold a start-up I’d founded to Hearst, the media company that owns everything from Cosmopolitan Magazine to ESPN.

To pay my respects, I decided to visit the legendary Hearst Castle.

The Hearst Castle is a 90,000 square foot mansion on California’s coast, about halfway between…

Yesterday morning, as I strolled through midtown Manhattan on my way to work, I passed a stream of mysterious-looking women.

They were dressed in turbans and flowing robes, and I soon realized what I was looking at:

Fortune-Tellers.

They’d been hiding in their air-conditioned…