Keeping score in the stock market is easy:

Oh, you bought Facebook last summer at $35 a share?

Hang on a second, let me pull up the online chart…

Wow, it’s trading at $70. Nice “double”!

Keeping score with start-ups isn’t quite so simple:

The typical journey for a successful…

With school out for summer, the trash-talking playground bullies have gone quiet.

But in the halls of early-stage investing, the zingers continue to fly.

The season’s most riveting grudge match?

The Old-School Venture Capitalists versus The New-School Equity Crowdfunders!

Today we’ll take a quick look at each side’s insults –…

The numbers are clear:

3 out of 4 start-ups fail.

For the founders of these companies, that means years of working around the clock, endless uphill battles, low or no pay...

And at the end of the road, 75% of them will have nothing to show for it.

It makes…

Yesterday you took a brief quiz on angel investing.

You were tasked with evaluating five early-stage companies and determining whether or not you’d invest.

How do you think you did?

Well you’re about to find out...

Start-up #1 – Coffee Bean Retailer

Remember the coffee company started by two teachers…

Peter Lynch was a rock star of a stock picker.

During his 13 years at the helm of Fidelity’s Magellan Fund, he racked up 29% annual returns.

To put that in perspective, a $50k investment would have grown to $1.4 million.

How did he accomplish this feat… and…

Any gamblers in the house?

Here’s an interesting fact for you:

The odds of consistently winning at poker are about 5% to 10% -- that’s similar to the odds angel investors face when trying to pick winning start-ups.

Amazingly, despite the odds, an elite group of poker players consistently manages…

What was the most profitable investment of all time?

Was it Warren Buffett’s investment in Coca-Cola in 1987?

Was it when savvy investors picked up shares of Amazon or Netscape in the 90s?

Or was it something more unexpected?

I recently came across a list of the world’s most profitable…

Every week, venture capital firms see dozens of new deals…

Over the course of a year, a 3 or 4-person firm might see several thousand of them.

But can you guess how many they invest in?

Let’s take a look…

The Funnel

Satya Patel, a venture capitalist with 

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Equity Crowdfunding is on a roll.

Angels have already invested $393 million into deals on the biggest platforms.

And this is still the first inning: many predict this new form of venture capital will become a $300 billion industry.

To put that in perspective, traditional sources of early-stage financing, like…

David Rose is one of the most active angel investors on the planet.

He’s been described by Forbes as “New York’s Archangel.” Crain’s called him “the Father of Angel Investing in New York.”

He also runs an early-stage venture fund, founded the most active angel group in America, and started…