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Hi there, 👋

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​Scheduling note: This is your penultimate (second last) newsletter of 2021. We'll publish our final letter of the year on Thursday, December 23.
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As expected, Richard's perspective on investing in the current market conditions resulted in a bunch of emails hitting our inbox - and a few raised eyebrows.
If you missed last Thursday's newsletter, you can read it here.
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If you'd like to see more guest spots from the talented and entertaining Mr. Patey, hit reply and let us know.
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​In this issue:

• Investing in space tech
• The Millennial Conundrum: Real estate investing
• Price consistency for domain investors

From the snippets: NFT rarity dashboard, why you should target niche markets, and a new strategy from Yieldstreet.
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As always, thanks for being here.
Juliet Lyall
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Investing in Space

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Space technology isn't all about building d**k-shaped rockets and selling rideshares to billionaire adventurers.

Innovation in space exploration requires a heap of funding across a myriad industry subsectors. We're talking about things like GeoSpatial data collection, gas storage systems, and materials that shield spacecraft from radiation.
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According to Morgan Stanley, the global space industry could generate more than $1 trillion in revenue in 2040, up from $350 billion currently, but investing in space has been viewed as the domain of the super wealthy.
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Until now.
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​Spaced Ventures' mission is to make the industry accessible to companies and investors of all sizes.​
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Their crowdfunded investment platform allows regular people to commit as little as $100 to become involved in the growing space economy.
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The company offers founders the opportunity to raise funds and receive direct access to advice from space industry experts and talent.
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For a handy reference to the companies currently involved in space technology, Spaced Ventures put together this roundup of space businesses which you can sort by sector and funding stage.
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If you want access to the live offers, you'll need to sign up on their site (free).
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​Note: Currently, anyone who is over 18 years of age and a resident of the United States of America can invest in companies through Spaced Ventures.
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Browser History Meets Bookmarks

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​Tablerone is not the first or maybe even the best solution to managing your tabs, but it does offer a unique solution.
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The company describes itself as an "all-in-one tab session manager for Chrome."

It provides what you’d expect from a tab manager:

- Save tabs in multiple ways
- Organise bookmarks with tags and notes
- Switch workspaces and continue sessions
- Restore crashed and accidentally closed tabs
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Plus a few less-common things:

- Find bookmarks with screenshot preview
- Copy multiple URLs and metadata
- Share multiple links with one link
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Keeping track of our research for this newsletter comes with a particular set of headaches, like sorting topics and keeping track of links.
Those are only two of the reasons that we'll take this tool for a test drive.
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You'll see all the details on their homepage or simply download the Chrome extension now.
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​Miscellaneous info: They are seeking investment via an application to their Discord server.
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Together With MicroAcquire

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🔥 Hot Sheets 🔥

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MicroAcquire is the top destination for bootstrapped startups and online businesses to list and sell.
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There are new listings vetted and posted on MicroAcquire every day.
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Here’s a preview of three of the latest hot listings:
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🚀 SaaS that offers unlimited graphic design for a flat-monthly rate. Customers include marketing agencies and entrepreneurs. Will provide existing relationships with designers. Competitors: Design Pickle.

🚀 Profitable suite of apps in the photo + video category with over 100k paid subscribers and $3.5M in TTM revenue. 850k+ Instagram account with verified badge and existing relationships with influencers. Competitors: VSCO, Lightricks.

🚀 Profitable Shopify App with $15,000 in TTM revenue and $13,000 in TTM profit that allows merchants to quickly set upsell, cross-sell and bundle opportunities for their ecommerce products. Competitors: Candyrack, Honeycomb, Vitals

Sign up for a free buyer account to browse all the listings.
Upgrade to a Premium subscription to see the full details.
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👉 See all listings.​
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🌎 The Times Ahead Will Be Radically Different

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Here's a podcast episode from Tyler Cowen that is guaranteed to get you thinking about investing, management, and the changing world order.
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Tyler got together with Ray Dalio to discuss:

• The forces that will affect American life in the coming decades
• Why we should be sceptical of the saliency of current equities prices
• The market as a poker game
• Why he thinks US inflation will not be transitory
• The key to his success as an investor

You get all that - and more - in this 58 minute episode.
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Domain Snacks

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👉 Always complete due diligence on the history of a domain name before buying. It could be a stolen asset.
George Kirikos shared a warning to keep an eye out for domain names that could have been stolen due to a recently found vulnerability:

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👉 Any domain name listed on a marketplace for an attractive or unbelievably good price should raise a red flag.
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Raymond Hackney stresses the importance of doing some basic research first, the potential problem with refunds, and the danger of getting your account cancelled.
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👉 Nat Cohen offers solid advice in this Twitter thread to illustrate why price consistency can be helpful to domain investors.
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The Millennial Conundrum

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1 in 5 American millennials believe they will never own a home.

That's a big chunk of the population that expects to never cut off their slice of the American Dream.
And it’s a sense of pessimism that is on the rise. Just one year earlier, only 12% of millennials held this same belief.
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In this short post, Evan Cohen explores how Millennial’s real estate investments are changing and covers 4 alternatives to help you get a foot in the door. (Yes, we noticed the pun).
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Bring Ideas to Life

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When it comes to communicating ideas or messages quickly, illustrations are your best tool.
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​Storyset offers free customizable illustrations for all your projects.
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A few features:

• Choose your own style
• Editable color
• Customize backgrounds and layers
• Animated illustrations
• Download as an SVG or PNG image

You'll find hundreds of illustrated concepts to make your landing page, app, or presentation more attractive.
Plus, Storyset gives you access to a Figma plugin - if that's what you need.
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​Explore the designs.
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An agency with so much link juice you’ll need a mop and bucket to clean it all up.​

​Check. Them. Out.
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✅ Snippets to Send You on Your Way

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🔷 New strategy: Yieldstreet is an alternative investment platform that has focused on generating passive income streams for investors since 2015. Last week the platform announced a new private equity strategy that gives retail investors the opportunity to gain exposure to equity investments in alternative asset managers. Last month, we mentioned Yieldstreet's Art Equity Platform, a new offering aimed at opening up fine art investing to everyday investors.
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​🔷 From $30 to $50 million: A recently rediscovered drawing by Albrecht Durer is expected to reach over $50 million when it goes to auction. Had Clifford Schorer not been running late for a friend’s retirement party, he would never have stumbled across a 500-year-old masterpiece drawing that has the art world aflutter. ( A little luck never hurts).
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🔷 Target niche markets: The founder of Gizmodo told Aaron Dinin why he thinks entrepreneurs should target niche markets. Targeting a huge market has the advantage of giving your startup lots of potential customers, but the size and value of a large market also creates plenty of competitors. Don’t get seduced into thinking the only types of successful businesses are businesses with products everyone in the world would want to use.
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🔷 Trends that will impact small businesses: Startup Nation outlines 5 trends to help you spot opportunities for your business while others are still struggling to adapt to change. You'll find information on the impact of sustainability (ESG , the digital privacy revolution, remote software, and more.
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🔷 NFT rarity: Crypto analytics provider Nansen just introduced NFT rarity dashboards. The dashboard offers an in-depth breakdown of rarity for over 650+ NFT projects and counting. This core feature is available to all levels of subscribers and aims to give you a new view into the value of NFTs - both at a project and trait level.
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🔷 Michael Jordan jumps into Web3: The NBA legend and his son Jeffrey Jordan are launching a fan engagement platform built on the Solana blockchain. The platform, HEIR, is designed to link professional athletes with their biggest supporters. HEIR has raised $10 million in seed funding and will launch in 2022.
​Related: A ticket stub from Michael Jordan’s debut sold for over $264,000.​
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