Should you fire me? That was the topic of my article last week.
As I explained, Artificial Intelligence (AI) can beat humans at many tasks. Could it do my job better? My conclusion: “Maybe one day. But not yet.”
You see, I may not be an AI. But as a research analyst, I am kind of a cyborg, a blend of human and machine. To identify and get access to the best startup investments, I use my human powers like relationship-building and psychology, and I also use the power of technology.
Today, I’ll show you the exact technology I use.
Then I’ll explain how you can get your hands on it, too.
Doing the Work For You
Startup investors need to dig through a big heap of deals to find the good ones. It’s not unusual for me to see dozens or even hundreds of deals per month.
Doing all this due diligence takes a lot of time — more time than any one person, or even a team of people, could spend.
That’s why, a few years ago, we built specialized software to do it for us.
Not only can this software save us hundreds of hours each month. But it can also help us minimize our risk, and maximize our profits.
This is how we position ourselves to earn the long-term average returns for startups — 55% per year, which is enough to double your money about every two years.
Our software is called CrowdabilityIQ.
The World’s First “Stock Screener” for Startups
CrowdabilityIQ is a sophisticated software system. We spent nearly two years and more than $500,000 building it.
In fact, we hired a team of former Citigroup bankers and MBAs from Columbia University to help us build it, back-test it, and fine-tune it.
In the end, what we’ve built is revolutionary. It’s the world’s first “stock screener” for the private markets. With a few clicks of your mouse, you can quickly discover hundreds of private startup opportunities.
Its filters allow you to search for deals based on various criteria.
For example, you might only want to see deals that are backed by venture capitalists. This way, you’ll have the comfort of knowing you’re following the “smart money” into an investment.
Or maybe you’ll want to find opportunities based on a founder’s domain experience, or the startup’s sector, location, or valuation.
By using a proprietary ranking algorithm, CrowdabilityIQ also helps you compare companies based on their likelihood of failure — something we call a company’s “Risk of Ruin.”
Twenty-Four Indicators
Each day, our software gathers up new startup deals from across the web. Then it pulls all the details of the most promising opportunities into our database.
After that, it imports data from dozens of other sources — from LinkedIn and CrunchBase, to various databases operated by the SEC.
Doing all these tasks manually would take you hours. But with CrowdabilityIQ, everything is done for you, automatically.
In total, CrowdabilityIQ evaluates 24 different indicators. These are the exact criteria that, statistically speaking, can help us find the investments with the highest upside potential, and the least amount of risk.
For example, it evaluates whether the company has what we call a “balanced team.” Balanced teams are composed of one founder who has a technical background, and one founder who has a business background.
Statistically speaking, balanced teams: 1) Raise 30% more money; 2) Have 2.9 times more user growth; and 3) Are 19% less likely to scale prematurely than technical or business-heavy founding teams.
As another example, CrowdabilityIQ evaluates whether a startup is “capital efficient.” In other words, whether or not it has high operating costs.
As compared to software companies like Google or Airbnb, hardware or consumer packaged goods companies require greater levels of capital to launch and sustain their business. While startups in such sectors can become successful, statistically speaking, their relative lack of capital efficiency correlates to a higher risk of going out of business.
After researching and evaluating these 24 indicators, our system automatically generates a 10-to-15-page research report on each company.
A Professional-Level Report
This is the same type of report an analyst would put together for a venture capitalist or professional angel investor.
In fact, many of our colleagues and friends who are venture capitalists helped us develop CrowdabilityIQ in the first place.
For example, our friend and business partner Howard Lindzon — who’s been investing in early-stage companies for 25 years — was instrumental in the creation of this powerful piece of software. Howard was an early shareholder in massive startup success stories including Twitter, Uber, LifeLock, Buddy Media, eToro, and others.
CrowdabilityIQ has also received glowing feedback from the press and financial industry. For example, it was featured in Forbes. And my co-founder and I were invited to present CrowdabilityIQ at a closed-door meeting of some of the largest banks and research firms in the country — like JPMorgan, Morningstar, and Goldman Sachs.
This is us on stage:
Try it Yourself
Essentially, CrowdabilitlyIQ provides a fast, easy way to avoid the riskiest startup investments — and just focus on the ones with the most potential.
That’s why CrowdabilityIQ subscribers include institutional money managers, financial advisors, venture capitalists, and individual investors like you who are looking for potential investment ideas.
I believe certain professionals would pay six figures each year for an analyst to generate the exact same level of research. Now, CrowdabilityIQ doesn’t cost nearly that much. But it’s certainly not “cheap” either. A year of the service can cost more than $1,000.
But if you’d like to give it a try for far less than that — so you can see for yourself how it can help you reach your financial goals — just let us know.
Our team can get you set up. Just give them a call at 1-844-311-3191 and tell them I sent you.
Happy Investing.
Best Regards,
Founder
Crowdability.com
