How to Invest in Startups on Equity Crowdfunding Platforms

How to Invest in Startups on Equity Crowdfunding Platforms

The risks and opportunities of investing in startups on equity crowdfunding platforms.

Topics covered include:

  • Why do individual investors now have more access to startup investments
  • What has been the historical performance of venture capital funds
  • How most startups fail, leaving only a few startups to offset portfolio losses
  • What factors to consider when deciding on which startups to invest
  • Why do startups have so many different share classes
  • What platforms are available for individuals to invest in startups
  • Why indexing by investing in every credible startup deal can lead to better performance than hand-selecting a few startups


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Show Notes

Squaring Venture Capital Valuations with Reality by Will Gornall and Ilya A. Strebulaev

How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions? by Paul A. Gompers, Will Gornall, Steven N. Kaplan, and Ilya A. Strebulaev

What Are SPACs and Should You Invest in Them?—Money For the Rest of Us

First Quarter 2021 Private Capital Quarterly Review—Fund Evaluation Group

Fourth Quarter 2020 Private Capital Quarterly Review—Fund Evaluation Group

The Pervasive, Head-Scratching, Risk-Exploding Problem With Venture Capital by Kamal Hassan, Monisha Varadan, and Claudia Zeisberger

Venture Outcomes are Even More Skewed Than You Think by Seth Levine—VC Adventure

Venture Returns With Abe Othman of AngelList by Collin West—Kauffman Fellows

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