About 556 articles by Matthew Milner

"Boring" Investment Delivers Big Gains

Corporate America is in the midst of a feeding frenzy:

In the last few weeks, big corporations have doled out $4.3 billion to acquire early-stage start-ups.

But in a strange twist, all these start-ups are in the same sector—and it’s not even an exciting sector like medical devices or cyber…

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Tags: Circleup Consumer products

Yahoo’s Loss – Your Gain!

Back in 2008, Microsoft offered to buy Yahoo for about $50 billion.

Yahoo rejected the offer as being “too low.”

Last week, a new deal for Yahoo came in—this time from Verizon.

The deal was worth just $4.6 billion, a fraction of what Microsoft had offered.

When Yahoo accepted it,…

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Tags: Early stage-investing Uber

Did You Just Make 166x Your Money?

Last week, Unilever acquired a start-up for $1 billion.

The start-up’s early investors made an estimated 166 times their money.

Some of these investors were ordinary folks just like you.

Actually… were you one of them?

Get a Shave!

The start-up I’m talking about is Dollar Shave Club.

Dollar Shave…

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Tags: Angellist syndicates Crowdfunding ma

JP Morgan Caught Reading Crowdability

Has anyone ever “borrowed” one of your ideas and used it as their own?

If I’m not mistaken, it just happened to me—and I’m thrilled.

After all, isn’t imitation the sincerest form of flattery?

And since it was JP Morgan doing the imitating—and since the idea it borrowed was about…

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Tags: Adding alternatives Diversification

New Report Sounds Alarm...

I just read a frightening research report.

It was written by the leading research firm in the world, so it’s tough to refute.

First it explains why investors like you have earned such exceptional returns over the past 30 years—then it explains why those days are over.

But there’s some…

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Tags: End of-the-stock-market Non correlated-assets

A "Profit Picnic"

For the past 10 years, I’ve celebrated July 4th in the same way:

At a lopsided picnic table in the countryside, surrounded by friends, family, and mountains of beer and barbecue.

But this year, I introduced a few new items to the festivities…

And not only were these items delicious—

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Tags: Consumer products Wefunder

Read this before tomorrow...

You’ve already read about Wayne’s story, and about mine...

So today I want to tell you a little story about someone else.

This guy was in even worse financial shape than I was, but he still managed to transform his life.

He started out with nothing—he was really in a…

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Get Rich With Just $100?

Several weeks ago, I caught a game with some buddies at Yankee Stadium.

After buying tickets, some BBQ from Brother Jimmy’s, and a few rounds of Buds, we spent about $100 each.

The Yankees won and we had a blast.

Back in the office early the next morning, I reviewed…

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Tags: Equity crowdfunding The jobs-act

Avoiding the "Oh, S#*t!" Investment

There’s an expression in the private markets…

It’s called the “Oh, S#*t!” moment.

As one prominent investor described it, “That’s when you learn all sorts of things that you wish you’d known [before] writing a company that first check.”

In other words, it’s when you realize you shouldn’t…

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Tags: Due diligence Kauffman study