In August 2012, a start-up called Oculus VR raised money on a crowdfunding site.

To help get the company off the ground, thousands of people chipped in a total of $2.4 million.

Last week – just 18 months after raising money from the crowd – Oculus was acquired by Facebook…

Any sports fans out there?

Maybe you’ve seen “Moneyball,” the Brad Pitt movie about Oakland A’s General Manager, Billy Beane…

With the A's struggling to win, Billy takes a radical approach to building his team:

Computer modeling. Predictive analytics. Data!

No more scouting for talent based on intuition. No more…

93% of the best-performing professional investors share a common strategy.

It’s called “The Syndicate Strategy.”

Today we’re going to tell you why the pros rely on it – and show you how to join them.

The “Syndicate Strategy”

The Syndicate Strategy is about leveraging the wisdom – and dollars –…

Before the era of online brokerages like e-Trade, plenty of smart people said average citizens would never go online to invest in stocks.

They said you’d have to be crazy to use services like e-Trade.

e-Trade’s annual revenues today? More than $2 billion.

Before the emergence of e-commerce businesses like…

After speaking with dozens of professional early-stage investors and poring over their track records, I think I finally uncovered the secret behind their success.

And while I’ve known about this secret for some time now, I’ve been reluctant to share it.

Frankly, I was doubting myself. Although it was a…

Last week, Facebook acquired a mobile messaging start-up called WhatsApp.

The price tag? An eye-popping $19 billion.

Not only is that Facebook’s biggest acquisition to date, it’s bigger than any acquisition ever made in the history of Apple, Microsoft or Google.

Some folks say it was a smart move –…

Union Square Ventures is killing it.

With investments in such winners as Twitter and Tumblr, Union Square (“USV”) is one of the top-performing venture capital funds in the world.

Across their funds, they’ve earned average annual returns of 61.12%.

To put that in perspective, a…

Pop Quiz:

Someone offers you a 99% probability of earning 8% to 12% per year…

You:

a.  Ask them if they’re related to Bernie Madoff, then quickly back away.
b.  Shut your eyes and give them your last cent to invest.
c.  Pause… then tell them…

“This was the hottest deal in Silicon Valley…”

This quote, courtesy of CNN Money, is from Lars Dalgaard. Lars is a partner of Andreessen Horowitz, a top-tier venture capital firm.

He was glowing about their latest deal – a $15 million round for an online company called…

I was “carded” recently outside a swanky club in downtown NYC.

It was a 30-second inconvenience. And, frankly, at my age, having to prove that I’m 21 just makes me smile.

But I got “carded” in a different way a few days later – and this time it was a…