About 554 articles by Matthew Milner

This is Why Kombucha Makers Are Becoming Angel Investors

“So, a professional poker player, a kombucha maker, and an allergist head into an online chat room…”

Wait a second… is this a joke? Something along the lines of "A priest, a minister, and a rabbi walk into a bar”?

Not at all. It’s a real-world story. I just read…

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Tags: Returns Startups

Don't Invest in This Startup!

What the heck happened to Quibi?

Once upon a time, Quibi was a streaming startup with all the makings of a homerun:

  • A name-brand founder (Hollywood mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg).
  • A proven CEO (Meg Whitman, the former CEO of PayPal and Hewlett Packard).
  • And plenty of cash ($1.8 billion in…

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Tags: Risk of-ruin Startups

Bloomberg's No. 1 Forecaster Reveals Exactly What To Do Now

Ever see the movie Moneyball starring Brad Pitt?

It’s based on the true story of Billy Beane, the Oakland A’s longtime manager.

Basically, Beane rejected all the conventional wisdom about how to build a winning baseball team. Instead, he tried a new approach using data and statistics — and that’s…

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Tags: Bloomberg Moneyball

3 Strikes — And Stocks Are Out!

When Maximilian Kunkel talks, it pays to listen.

Kunkel is a Chief Investment Officer for UBS, the largest private bank in the world.

Founded in 1862 and based in Switzerland, UBS manages $3.2 trillion for some of the wealthiest families in the world — including about half the world’s billionaires.

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Tags: Max kunkel Stocks

Warning: Please Avoid this $35 billion IPO

This Thursday, a new IPO is coming.

Its revenues are surging. It’s riding many of today’s biggest trends. And in an unusual twist, regular investors like you can actually get shares in it.

Clearly you should invest in it, right?

Wrong.

Today, I’ll explain why — then I’ll tell you…

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URGENT: Retirement Crisis

In his article last week, Wayne addressed a frightening situation in America today:

The retirement crisis.

As he explained, even if you have a nest-egg saved up — and even if you have time before you retire — two threats are about to destroy your plans:

The first threat is…

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Tags: Income Retirement

[Breaking] Vanguard Now Offers Startup Investments

Big news for you:

Vanguard, the largest mutual fund company in the world, now offers investment access to startups!

As a company executive just told Business Insider, its goal is to “bring this asset class to investors who need it the most” so they can improve their investment performance.

This…

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Tags: Startups Vanguard

Enough!

If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably had it with all the bad news.

Bad news about inflation and the economy…

Bad news about cyber threats crippling the nation…

Bad news about a sky-high stock market that has nowhere to go but down.

Enough already!

Which is why I’m going…

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Tags: Bonds Private markets

My #1 Strategy To Find the Next Starbucks

Fifty years ago, a tiny coffee shop with a strange name opened in Seattle’s Pike Place Market.

It was called Starbucks, and it grew slowly at first. But as it expanded across the U.S. and overseas, its popularity and value started to soar.

Eventually, twenty-four years after it was founded,…

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Tags: Starbucks Startups