About 628 articles by Matthew Milner

Your Holiday Gift from Crowdability

Wednesday, December 30, 2015

We’ll make this as short and sweet as a candy cane… 2016 is going to be a big year for you: Starting in May, the private markets will be opening their doors to ALL citizens, regardless of their income or net worth.

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This Strategy Beats the Market by 400%

Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Trying to pick a single start-up that will become “the next Microsoft” or “the next Google” is pretty risky. Even wildly successful venture capitalists strike out more than half the time.

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10 Reasons You Should Ignore These Experts

Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Last weekend, my fiancée and I were catching up on old Shark Tank episodes. We love to watch entrepreneurs pitch their start-up ideas to “Sharks” like Mark Cuban and Barbara Corcoran.

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The biggest thing my subscribers screw up

Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Every year, the journal Popular Science releases a special list… It’s a list of the 100 greatest innovations of the year—from bionic arms and pain-free dentistry, to life-saving remedies that could change our world.

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How to Make Money from IPOs

Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Last Thursday, a tech start-up called Square (NYSE: SQ) went public. For investors who got in early, when the company was still young and private, champagne corks should have been flying— After all, Square’s IPO gave the company a value of nearly $3 billion.

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How to Legally Trade on "Insider Information"

Wednesday, November 11, 2015

For more than a quarter of a century, General Mills (NYSE: GIS) has been a winning trade: If you’d invested $10,000 into the company in 1990 and reinvested the dividends, today you’d be sitting on $217,146. That’s roughly twice what the overall market returned.

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Wall Street's Latest "Shell Game"

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

The market’s had a great run recently: Since bottoming out in 2009, the Dow has more than doubled. To celebrate, Wall Street’s been partying like it’s 1999.

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