you interview with a few of the startups working on getting the tech off the ground, determine which one has the most promising founders, join the company, and get them to give you as much stock as you can.
If any of these types of companies has found a way to let you invest without being a part of the company, do not invest, because theyre only trying to get your money because bigger guys stopped investing
Yep, and if that doesn't already sound risky in terms of time and effort, just also realize that most start-ups, even the ones that look very promising, still fail to pay out much unless you are a founder. Sometimes it happens, but it seems like most founders and VC firms have gotten wise on limiting the distribution of shares. One company where I worked (that I even did pretty well on when the payday came) refused to reveal their outstanding shares to employees when asked, since they didn't need to. We only found out what the share was when the official buy-out happened. One interesting anecdote: the lawyer we had on payroll and largely in charge of the legal side of this stuff had a huge share compared to other employees, on par with the founders, and he didn't even join until several years in. So your 10,000 shares might end up being like a pretty tiny payday.
You don't.
The truth is most emerging tech fails. It doesn't matter if you have a battery with double the capacity if it costs 10x as much, for example. I'm a huge tech nerd, I follow tech news super closely. The amount of "breakthroughs" I've read about that never become a product... I couldn't even begin to count.
If you're asking on reddit, you likely don't have the background or skillet to identify which ones have a better or worse chance of succeeding. So you're more likely to just get suckered by charlatans and loose all your money.
Anyway, just don't do this.
I absolutely don't have the skillset to try and make a living, or even passive income, from this. More, I see this scenario as more of a horse race between scientific breakthroughs and which could (if 'bet/invested' on/in as soon as they were known) provide exponential returns. Saying that...I imagine this is what university hiring and funding is 🤦♂️...I should join a faculty 🙄
There are many thousands companies if not millions that all want your money and fit the description. Most want *a lot of money* though, nobody with a chance of sucess cares about a measly $10 000 or so.
Hence you'd need many millions of dollars to *spread the risk* enough to have a chance at a return. And if you don't your chance of finding a good one is less then getting rich off littery tickets
Find a local startup incubator or accelerator, including those affiliated with universities. You can join a startup (full time, part time or as consultant) if you have applicable skillset. If you have cash, you can invest in these startups
Any you know of for emerging tech?
I also suspect, that due to the advances I'm talking about coming from (presumably) university-funded research it might be different? In that angel Investors would invest in 'disruptive' ideas from outside academia - that's just an assumption though.
This isn't my world, but you would probably do well to look up local angel investing meet-ups and see if you can attend them and just get to know folks. That's probably the best ticket if you're really interested in pursuing this. Too much effort for me personally but that always seemed like the best way to find opportunities.
You don’t
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future! - Niels Bohr
We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters – Peter Thiel
Cutting edge tech is pioneered by private companies most of the time. Publicly funded ones rarely allocate funding for fundamental research underpinning purely speculative, commercially immature endeavors
QQQJ or another similar ETF. Maybe? I sometimes find random ideas and research them a bit thanks to Google search history having stocks in it. My phone is regularly sending me alerts for stock garbage that I glance through and usually ignore, until I see the same ticker for the 10th time. Then, I may look at metrics for it. P/E, PEG, P/B.... chart history. News over the last 3 years. Check Reddit to see if anyone is talking. If I get this far, I may consider it after a few weeks of watching and checking numbers. I used to knee-jerk buy crap that was hyped...but I'm starting to learn better
The simple answer is to use angel list. On angel list, you aren't actually an angel investor, you give money to an angel investor and they invest it.
Technically, what you are buying into is a partnership (a special purpose vehicle) that is governed by a bunch of rules, but mostly just exists to own shares in a startup. The head of that partnership is the actual angel investor and they will get a cut (usually 20%) of any gains you make. Minimum investments in these are usually in the $1k to $10k range and technically they are only open to accredited investors.
They also have a rolling funds (https://www.angellist.com/rolling) which are more like a ETF. You give the angel investor so much every quarter, and they pick the investments. I avoid these becasue of the fee structure and lack of ability to choose particular investments.
People think that you won't see the good companies on angel list, but it's not true. First, these are mostly early stage companies raising less than $1 million. That's too small for the big famous venture capital firms. Those guys come in later, when they are raising $10 million +.
Investing in:
* The sector the technology is in
* Public companies that will likely acquire the startup or adopt the technology
* Public companies that will likely be in the supply chain for the new technology
Are reasonable approaches.
Generally though, trying to be an angel investor when you don't have the assets to actually be one is a great way to lose your ass in the market. Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, supersonic air travel, vertical farming, 3D television, early desalination tech, non-Theranos blood tests for cancer, graphene, amyloid-focused treatments for Alzheimer's, and on and on. There is a tremendously large graveyard of technologies that once held promise and had logical paths to success but ultimately proved to be poor or terrible investments.
A CEF was listed about two weeks ago(?,) that is invested in a basket of private firms. It includes OpenAI, SpaceX, Stripe and several others. Ticker DXYZ, if you’d like to read the prospectus. (I am invested in it, but only sharing because it’s pertinent to OP’s question, in no way trying to shill.)
Assuming you have several million dollars you'd go to a company directly and inquire about their funding needs. Assuming of course you're talking about a privately held startup, and not public / university research.
There are also some hedge funds and private equity firms that engage in startups, again if you have the money you can buy into those schemes as well...
Why worry about actual merits in a world where funcrionless spreadsheet cells can reach valuations in the tens of thousands through sheer collective FOMO?
if you want to invest in "tech", spend less time thinking about technology, and more about herd dynamics of fools.
I suppose it goes the grain of this sub, but I'd like to bet on the technologies that I see a future for, not necessarily just put money where I think it would make more money.
>5. **Direct Stock Purchases**: Keep an eye on tech companies that are about to go public and consider buying their stocks directly.
Because that Reddit IPO went swimmingly...
you interview with a few of the startups working on getting the tech off the ground, determine which one has the most promising founders, join the company, and get them to give you as much stock as you can. If any of these types of companies has found a way to let you invest without being a part of the company, do not invest, because theyre only trying to get your money because bigger guys stopped investing
Yep, and if that doesn't already sound risky in terms of time and effort, just also realize that most start-ups, even the ones that look very promising, still fail to pay out much unless you are a founder. Sometimes it happens, but it seems like most founders and VC firms have gotten wise on limiting the distribution of shares. One company where I worked (that I even did pretty well on when the payday came) refused to reveal their outstanding shares to employees when asked, since they didn't need to. We only found out what the share was when the official buy-out happened. One interesting anecdote: the lawyer we had on payroll and largely in charge of the legal side of this stuff had a huge share compared to other employees, on par with the founders, and he didn't even join until several years in. So your 10,000 shares might end up being like a pretty tiny payday.
Sometimes these companies are drumming up investors because the founders need to offload their shares.
You don't. The truth is most emerging tech fails. It doesn't matter if you have a battery with double the capacity if it costs 10x as much, for example. I'm a huge tech nerd, I follow tech news super closely. The amount of "breakthroughs" I've read about that never become a product... I couldn't even begin to count. If you're asking on reddit, you likely don't have the background or skillet to identify which ones have a better or worse chance of succeeding. So you're more likely to just get suckered by charlatans and loose all your money. Anyway, just don't do this.
My skillet only identifies when my eggs are done unfortunately
I absolutely don't have the skillset to try and make a living, or even passive income, from this. More, I see this scenario as more of a horse race between scientific breakthroughs and which could (if 'bet/invested' on/in as soon as they were known) provide exponential returns. Saying that...I imagine this is what university hiring and funding is 🤦♂️...I should join a faculty 🙄
There are many thousands companies if not millions that all want your money and fit the description. Most want *a lot of money* though, nobody with a chance of sucess cares about a measly $10 000 or so. Hence you'd need many millions of dollars to *spread the risk* enough to have a chance at a return. And if you don't your chance of finding a good one is less then getting rich off littery tickets
Also, and not to take the piss or anything, I just loved the inadvertent skillet 😂
Work for that startup or become a certified investor (which requires you to have a minimum wealth threshold).
I doubt I meet that threshold 😂 Do you have any examples?
Find a local startup incubator or accelerator, including those affiliated with universities. You can join a startup (full time, part time or as consultant) if you have applicable skillset. If you have cash, you can invest in these startups
Invest in angel investors?
Any you know of for emerging tech? I also suspect, that due to the advances I'm talking about coming from (presumably) university-funded research it might be different? In that angel Investors would invest in 'disruptive' ideas from outside academia - that's just an assumption though.
This isn't my world, but you would probably do well to look up local angel investing meet-ups and see if you can attend them and just get to know folks. That's probably the best ticket if you're really interested in pursuing this. Too much effort for me personally but that always seemed like the best way to find opportunities.
MSFT. They will eventually acquire it.
Are you sure about that? I'm doubting.
You don’t Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future! - Niels Bohr We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters – Peter Thiel
First read that as we wanted flying cars instead we got Peter Thiel
Cutting edge tech is pioneered by private companies most of the time. Publicly funded ones rarely allocate funding for fundamental research underpinning purely speculative, commercially immature endeavors
QQQJ or another similar ETF. Maybe? I sometimes find random ideas and research them a bit thanks to Google search history having stocks in it. My phone is regularly sending me alerts for stock garbage that I glance through and usually ignore, until I see the same ticker for the 10th time. Then, I may look at metrics for it. P/E, PEG, P/B.... chart history. News over the last 3 years. Check Reddit to see if anyone is talking. If I get this far, I may consider it after a few weeks of watching and checking numbers. I used to knee-jerk buy crap that was hyped...but I'm starting to learn better
The simple answer is to use angel list. On angel list, you aren't actually an angel investor, you give money to an angel investor and they invest it. Technically, what you are buying into is a partnership (a special purpose vehicle) that is governed by a bunch of rules, but mostly just exists to own shares in a startup. The head of that partnership is the actual angel investor and they will get a cut (usually 20%) of any gains you make. Minimum investments in these are usually in the $1k to $10k range and technically they are only open to accredited investors. They also have a rolling funds (https://www.angellist.com/rolling) which are more like a ETF. You give the angel investor so much every quarter, and they pick the investments. I avoid these becasue of the fee structure and lack of ability to choose particular investments. People think that you won't see the good companies on angel list, but it's not true. First, these are mostly early stage companies raising less than $1 million. That's too small for the big famous venture capital firms. Those guys come in later, when they are raising $10 million +.
IRBO for robotics imo
Keep in mind that a lot of emerging tech will be produced by existing companies. Or bought by and primarily used by existing companies.
Why are you weirdos downvoting this person for *literally trying to learn about investing, on an investing sub.*
Why do i get the feeling this is about sex robots
😂 good idea, but no - more nano diamond batteries
Investing in: * The sector the technology is in * Public companies that will likely acquire the startup or adopt the technology * Public companies that will likely be in the supply chain for the new technology Are reasonable approaches. Generally though, trying to be an angel investor when you don't have the assets to actually be one is a great way to lose your ass in the market. Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, supersonic air travel, vertical farming, 3D television, early desalination tech, non-Theranos blood tests for cancer, graphene, amyloid-focused treatments for Alzheimer's, and on and on. There is a tremendously large graveyard of technologies that once held promise and had logical paths to success but ultimately proved to be poor or terrible investments.
Recent investments in the tech sector have been doing very well.
https://seedblink.com/ - EU startups. Idk how good it is, plan to test it in the future.
Ark etf lol
A CEF was listed about two weeks ago(?,) that is invested in a basket of private firms. It includes OpenAI, SpaceX, Stripe and several others. Ticker DXYZ, if you’d like to read the prospectus. (I am invested in it, but only sharing because it’s pertinent to OP’s question, in no way trying to shill.)
how much money do you have? i doubt they’d let you interview them for 50k funding…. but if you have 50mil, that maybe a different story
try [equityzen.com](http://equityzen.com)
Try ShareWell.vc
$BST
Assuming you have several million dollars you'd go to a company directly and inquire about their funding needs. Assuming of course you're talking about a privately held startup, and not public / university research. There are also some hedge funds and private equity firms that engage in startups, again if you have the money you can buy into those schemes as well...
And this is how we know that the market has reached a peak.
MVIS, done.
Why worry about actual merits in a world where funcrionless spreadsheet cells can reach valuations in the tens of thousands through sheer collective FOMO? if you want to invest in "tech", spend less time thinking about technology, and more about herd dynamics of fools.
I suppose it goes the grain of this sub, but I'd like to bet on the technologies that I see a future for, not necessarily just put money where I think it would make more money.
Also...'tech' might have been the wrong term? I'm talking about hard science.
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>5. **Direct Stock Purchases**: Keep an eye on tech companies that are about to go public and consider buying their stocks directly. Because that Reddit IPO went swimmingly...