OK, so now it’s legal for you to invest in start-ups.

Sounds exciting… but should you invest in start-ups?

After all, this is a new world, and it’s natural that you have concerns.

But if you’ve been hesitating, here’s something that might push you over the edge.

Silicon Valley’s Best…

A few years back, I sold a start-up I’d founded to Hearst, the media company that owns everything from Cosmopolitan Magazine to ESPN.

To pay my respects, I decided to visit the legendary Hearst Castle.

The Hearst Castle is a 90,000 square foot mansion on California’s coast, about halfway between…

Yesterday morning, as I strolled through midtown Manhattan on my way to work, I passed a stream of mysterious-looking women.

They were dressed in turbans and flowing robes, and I soon realized what I was looking at:

Fortune-Tellers.

They’d been hiding in their air-conditioned…

Back in 2001, oil was trading at about $30 per barrel.

At the time, just a single oil company (Exxon) was on the list of the world’s Top 5 Most Valuable Companies.

Within a decade, however, oil shot up to $100 per barrel. All of a sudden, the Top 5…

Once upon a time, start-up investors had to be extremely patient:

After getting in on a “ground floor” investment, they’d need to wait for years and years as the start-up morphed into a real business—the kind of business that could get acquired or go public.

But recently, we’ve become aware…

Have you ever heard of Naval Ravikant?

Most folks haven’t—not yet, anyway.

But if you’re an ordinary investor with dreams of hitting it big, this programmer from India might play a starring role in your financial future.

You see, not once, not twice, but three times in the past few…

Last week in Rio, Michael Phelps went out on a high note:

After leading the U.S. swim team to victory in the 400-meter relay—and receiving a record-high 23^rd Olympic gold medal—Phelps hung up his goggles and retired.

Meanwhile, a similar situation was taking place closer to home:

The Dow, the…

Corporate America is in the midst of a feeding frenzy:

In the last few weeks, big corporations have doled out $4.3 billion to acquire early-stage start-ups.

But in a strange twist, all these start-ups are in the same sector—and it’s not even an exciting sector like medical devices or cyber…

Back in 2008, Microsoft offered to buy Yahoo for about $50 billion.

Yahoo rejected the offer as being “too low.”

Last week, a new deal for Yahoo came in—this time from Verizon.

The deal was worth just $4.6 billion, a fraction of what Microsoft had offered.

When Yahoo accepted it,…

Last week, Unilever acquired a start-up for $1 billion.

The start-up’s early investors made an estimated 166 times their money.

Some of these investors were ordinary folks just like you.

Actually… were you one of them?

Get a Shave!

The start-up I’m talking about is Dollar Shave Club.

Dollar Shave…