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How Investors Can Leverage the Most Powerful Force in the Universe

Investing in the early days of an initial public offering (IPO) isn’t what it used to be. Last year’s IPOs are a shining example. Shares of tech companies that IPO’d in 2015 averaged around a 40% drop...

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How Disruption Pays

It stinks to be on the wrong side of the disruption divide. Just ask Sears. The Limited stores. Payless. Bebe stores. And dozens others. They’ve either filed Chapter 11, or they’re closing dozens of...

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Why Crowdfunding Is the Best Way to Raise Capital

The biggest myth about crowdfunding is that crowdfunding investors get crumbs. The tasty dishes go to venture capital (VC) firms. And those startups that can’t get VC investors to scoop them up turn to...

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Three Ways Tiny Startups Can Beat Amazon

In between all the eating and drinking (I make no apology!) I did with family and friends this weekend, I squeezed in a couple of sets of tennis. And I noticed my tennis partner had a new pair of...

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Facial Recognition Technology Is Raising Serious Issues

A reader, Eton, asks, “Do you have any recommendations on facial recognition startups, or thoughts on them?” I usually save questions like this for our Mailbag. But this is such a big and basic issue,...

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Why Truly Groundbreaking Startups Are the Hardest to Invest In

What do the following have in common? Food replicators Asteroid mining Robotic janitors Full-diagnostic wearables (like taking a physical every day) “Fountain of youth” pills Passenger drones Some may...

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Follow the Startup, Not the Sector

I was on the phone with Hermie this morning. Hermie is the vice president of finance for a cannabis company. And he asked me how interested Early Investing is in the healthcare and medtech industries....

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Silicon Valley Is Just as Responsible for IPO Dysfunction as Wall Street

My main gripe with the TechCrunch Disrupt event I went to in San Francisco last week? No angst. You’d think that with Uber trading 30% below its IPO price, Lyft trading 40% below and Slack trading 8%...

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Why Big Budgets Can Lead to Low Returns

WeWork is grabbing all the headlines for its failed attempt to continue the illusion that it’s worth tens of billions of dollars. As it tried to make the transition from a private company to a public...

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China’s Industrial Espionage Is Bad Policy

China makes headlines almost every day. But I never really talk about it. That changes today. First, you have to understand that China and I go way back. I’ve spent a lot of time there. I’ve done...

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The Opioid Crisis Cost Us Almost $200 Billion Last Year

The horribly tragic irony about the opioid crisis is that opioids are supposed to alleviate pain. Instead, they’ve caused untold pain and suffering… to the 400,000 people who have died since 1999 from...

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The Deep, Dark Hole of Drug Addiction

By the time my dad retired, he had accumulated an impressive resumé… decorated World War II Marine, entrepreneur, founder, successful real estate developer, and loving husband and father. But here’s...

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Two Ways to Resolve the Opioid Crisis

I always thought that the Vietnam War would be the worst mass killer of Americans I’d see in my lifetime. More than 58,000 American soldiers died. But the opioid epidemic’s appalling toll amounts to...

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Quantum Computing Is (Almost) Here

Our pocket computers – you know them as smartphones – are small, fast and powerful thanks to the billions of bits and transistors packed into the chips they use. Bits make up a computer’s memory and...

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The Five Future Disruptions I’m Already Grateful For

Thanksgiving is tomorrow. And I want to wish all of you the happiest of Thanksgiving holidays. I’m spending mine with the whole family and then some. My daughter, Rachel, is flying in with her husband...

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The Five Metrics Startup Investors Are Most Likely to Get Wrong

My Twitter feed is always good for a laugh or two every morning. This morning was no different. “You need to be able to say what your startup does in 2-4 words,” tweeted serial founder David Sacks. “No...

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How to Ignite Capital Growth in 2020 (Not Through IPOs)

An IPO is one of the biggest moments of a founder’s life. It’s the crowning achievement of years of hard work, not to mention uncertainty. Startups go from a few dozen investors at the beginning to...

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Eight Wishes for Early Investors

2019 has come and has almost gone. It was a good year for early investors. But it could have been so much better. If only certain things had zigged instead of zagged. Next year, I’m hoping for more...

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SoftBank Is No Longer Getting a Pass

WeWork was one of the biggest debacles of 2019. It was on the verge of IPOing at a $47 billion valuation as a high-flying tech startup oozing with untapped upside. Instead, investors saw a flawed and...

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The Problem With Ratchet Terms

Three summers ago, my brother took me to one of his favorite bars in New York. (He worked for a hedge fund at the time.) Later that evening, there would be live music and a large raucous crowd....

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