Last Friday, a British entrepreneur named Cliff Dennett put on a well-pressed shirt and blazer, took a deep breath, and sat down for a painful interview.

During the videotaped interrogation, which we’ll link to below, Cliff opens up about why his start-up failed—and why his investors lost all their money.

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Netflix Nearly Blows $46 Billion

Matt shook his head. “This can’t be right,” he said. "Let’s check it again."

We were reviewing the latest findings from our research team, and one particular data point was sticking out like a sore thumb:

According to the data (which we eventually triple-checked), online private investing last quarter represented…

Bill Gross was once dubbed the “the biggest investor in the world.”

For decades, he managed the $292 billion Pimco Total Return Fund—up until last year, it was largest bond fund on the planet.

If you’re familiar with the complexity of evaluating bond investments—from calculating default risk to forecasting the…

Generating Power—Out of Thin Air

We live in a perpetual cloud of radio frequency (RF) signals. These signals are the reason your smartphone gets coverage, and your TV receives digital broadcasts. Now a new company has figured out how to use all this RF energy to create usable electricity.

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First, a warning:

This is going to be a little different than usual...

You see, nine times out of ten, when Crowdability writes about technology, we focus on all the things that could go right—

From how technology can help solve major problems around the world, to how it can…

Pop Quiz:  When a company is about to go public, why does it lobby so ferociously to get a top-tier bank like Goldman Sachs or JP Morgan to manage its IPO?

Depending on how much you know about IPOs, the answer might surprise you:

It’s not just that these banks…

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The Best Way to Colonize Mars

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Wayne and I played hooky last week.

But we weren’t off playing golf or drinking scotch at a bar…

We were in midtown Manhattan, at a conference called Finovate.

Finovate is perhaps the biggest conference in the world that focuses on the future of finance.

At the event, a small…