What if you woke up tomorrow and found $10 million in your bank account?
How about $100 million? How about a billion?
What would you do with all that money?
What’s the most outrageous thing you’d buy?
Give it a think—
Then you can compare it to a few over-the-top…
Zuckerberg Meets the Pope – Guess What He Gave Him…
Earlier this week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg met Pope Francis at the Vatican. What did he give him? A drone, of course »
The Most Secretive Venture Firm in the World
A venture firm called In-Q-Tel…
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Once upon a time, start-up investors had to be extremely patient:
After getting in on a “ground floor” investment, they’d need to wait for years and years as the start-up morphed into a real business—the kind of business that could get acquired or go public.
But recently, we’ve become aware…
This Girl Will Go Far—Really Far
36,000 feet in the air, halfway from Dubai to Manila, a baby girl named Haven was born on a plane. As a birthday present, the airline gave her a million air miles. Oh, so that’s how you get so many miles »
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Imagine going into your local diner and ordering a hamburger.
A few minutes later, it gets delivered nice and hot, cooked just how you like it. You gobble it up.
But then the waitress drops off the check and—$237!? What the…
You might be thinking, “C’mon, Wayne. A hamburger…
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Have you ever heard of Naval Ravikant?
Most folks haven’t—not yet, anyway.
But if you’re an ordinary investor with dreams of hitting it big, this programmer from India might play a starring role in your financial future.
You see, not once, not twice, but three times in the past few…
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The Kauffman Foundation’s Angel Investor Performance Project (AIPP) was literally the largest study ever conducted on the returns of early-stage investing.
To gather the data, the authors took results from 539 individual angel investors, and 86 different angel investor groups. These angels were involved with 1,130 companies.
Many investors and…
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Did you vote last week?
Your fellow Crowdability subscribers sure did!
We held the vote so you could pick the topic of Crowdability’s next sector report.
It was a close race, but the winner is… the IoT sector.
Those three letters represent one of the hottest trends in tech today:
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Last week in Rio, Michael Phelps went out on a high note:
After leading the U.S. swim team to victory in the 400-meter relay—and receiving a record-high 23rd Olympic gold medal—Phelps hung up his goggles and retired.
Meanwhile, a similar situation was taking place closer to home:
The Dow, the…
