It’s dark days for stock market investors:

A year ago, on April 6, 2015, the S&P 500 was trading at about 2,050...

52 weeks later, after all its ups and downs, that’s exactly where it’s trading today.

No one knows for sure, but if U.S. GDP numbers are any indication,…

At 5:45 on a recent afternoon, I received an email from a friend:

Matt,
Here’s a deck for a company one of our biotech advisors is raising money for. Basically they looked at why all the big pharma trials failed, and they have a solution for what went wrong.…

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Fearless.

That’s how I’d describe the first person to sail across the ocean…

Or dive to the bottom of the sea…

Or strap themselves to a rocket and launch into space.

But after these pioneers returned home—not just safe and sound, but exhilarated and hailed as victors—countless others were inspired…

Imagine waking up one morning, making a pot of coffee and checking your e-mail.

You quickly notice an e-mail from one of the start-ups you invested in...

Turns out it was just acquired—for $425 million!

Before you even finish the e-mail, you start dreaming of all the things you’ll do…

This is the first trading week of 2016—and already, money is pouring out of your pockets:

The Nasdaq is down about 200 points. The Dow has dropped more than 400.

In the news, you hear it’s because manufacturing data from China looks weak. Or because tensions are rising between Saudi…

Made might be the wrong word here. Raised is more like it.

You see, when Matt and I first launched Crowdability, we raised $1 million from investors to help grow our business.

From start to finish, it took us 21 days to pull together the entire investment.

Relatively speaking, that’s…

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.

But after the Sharks said “I’m out!” to some start-ups I was bullish on—and I said “Definite pass!” to…

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.

As I was browsing through this year’s honorees, one of them caught my eye:

It was…

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.

So why the heck were so…