Is there anyone here who bought a one word domain in the 90s and never sold it? (Hit reply and tell us about it).
OG web domain purchasers are probably pretty rare, but we stumbled across this amusing page yesterday.
Donβt bother asking because the domain is not for sale. β
In this issue:
π Market Moves
π° News & Views
π€πΏ Deal Summary
π§° Cool tools β
Donβt miss: Empire Flippers Capital results, your company can now offer banking services (EU/UK), being right for the wrong reasons, and the Bye Bye Domain marketplace.
As always, thanks for being here. Juliet Lyall β β
π Market Moves β β
Are you sure you want to see this? β
π Bitcoin | $35,427.90 | -5.02%
π Ethereum | $2,388.36 | -7.79%
π Shopify | $626.61 | -0.15%
π Coinbase | $158.99 | -9.20%
π Meta | $190.87 | -3.14% β β β
π° News & Views β
Recent stories that resonated with us. β β
The Results
β βHave you seen the latest update from Empire Flippers Capital?
β Itβs been a year since Empire Flippers Capital (EFC) Round 1 began, and those deals performed even better than expected.
Investors received a 5% cash on cash return in Q12022, and net income across all sites is up 22% since acquisition. β Now, the third EFC Round is open for investment.
In 2021, EFC raised $13MM across 8 website operators in Amazon FBA, KDP, and content monetization.
Round 3 opened last week and already has over $2MM in funding.
Weβre advised that the current round is set to close on March 31st (or earlier) as the deals fill up.
If a passive investment is your style, then EFC provided a super-short Investor Form for you to express your interest and get your questions answered. β Get the information here. β β β
The Psychology of Accidentally Getting Rich β
The inimitable Jack Raines begins a recent article with an entertaining story about his first casino experience.
Here is a lawsuit in which a guy (the plaintiff, Timothy McKimmy) is suing a non-fungible token exchange (the defendant, OpenSea) for allegedly negligently causing him to lose his NFT in the Bored Ape Yacht Club collection. β He would like his ape back.
Outside authorities - OpenSea and other centralized intermediaries, but also U.S. federal courts - can decide who owns an NFT, even if the blockchain says something different.
For most practical purposes, what the outside authorities say about ownership matters more than what the blockchain says. β β β
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πΉ Swedish startup Intergiro has been a stealth-mode, privately funded, bootstrapped business for the last five years. It is now emerging as part of the embedded banking movement, calling itself βa financial cloudβ on which almost any kind of company can offer banking services. Companies incorporated within the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom may open an account. Youβll find out more about Intergiro on TechCrunch.
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πΉ Sundae, a residential real estate marketplace that pairs sellers of distressed properties with potential buyers, entered the lending market with a new finance option for investors.
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πΉ Crowdfunding has become an increasingly popular way for companies to raise capital, and investors are taking notice. Groundfloor, the first real estate crowdfunding platform to gain regulatory approval, announced that it raised $118 million - its first round of institutional capital since 2015. β Groundfloorβs platform offers investments in real estate debt to its 150,000+ users, with a minimum investment of $10. Nearly all of the products available on its platform are open to non-accredited investors. TechCrunch.
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πΉ Inside.com Crypto analyst, Trevor Grant will talk to team Global Coin Research on Monday, February 28th. Tune in to understand what goes into early-stage crypto research and what investment DAOs are. Register Here.
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π€πΏ Deal Summary
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π = Accredited Investors Only
None of these deals is a recommendation from investing.io. This content is for information purposes only. All returns listed are estimations from the respective platforms, and not advice from investing.io. Do your own research.
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β½ Downtown Orlando Office Portfolio π
Class A office portfolio acquisition/recapitalization opportunity consisting of two standalone office buildings totalling approximately 187K SF in the worldβs number one tourist destination. (Overview: WithVincent)β
Minimum: $25,000 βPotential Return: 14.80%
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β½ Purchase & Renovation Loan in Jacksonville #114
Loan of $123,780 in First Lien position for Purchase & Renovation at 2054 Broadway Avenue #1, Jacksonville, Fl 32209. (Overview: WithVincent)β
Wireless EV charging: certified hardware + software commercially available today. Successful pilots with major global auto and energy companies. (Republic)β
Minimum: $250
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β½ Ratio Finance Reg D π
De-risking DeFi through protocol-owned risk assessment. Ratio Finance is a collateralized debt position (CDP) protocol on Solana. Only non-U.S. investors. (Republic)β
Minimum: $100 βTarget Raise: Up to $6.5MM
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β½ D-ID: Venture Raise π
Viral, industry-defining still photo animation technology evolving into Metaverse personalization, including full-body re-enactment, transforming the online experience. (OurCrowd)β β Minimum: $10,000 βTarget Raise: $2Mβ β β
»»WhenAre is an intuitive time zone viewer for any team that works remotely.
If youβre tired of wrangling with time zone converters like World Time Server, then try WhenAre for a visual overview of your team and their current time of day. You could also use this tool to coordinate calls with your clients or sync with your friends.
Hereβs a tip: You can use any URL, and signup to "lock" it. For example, https://whena.re/remote-ceos is a valid clock.
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»» Bye Bye Domain is a marketplace to find a buyer for your domains before they expire.
The site states that youβll get access to 400+ undeveloped and about to expire brandable domains. Of course, you can also list your domains for sale here. Sign up with your email addy.
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»» Nansen is a brilliant analytics hub for DeFi and NFT data. Youβll get an edge over everyone else by tracking the behavior and on-chain activity of prominent wallet addresses. Itβs also great for identifying activity surges around new NFT projects. The service offers a 7-day trial ($9) and some public dashboards. Check out their awesome Gas Tracker.
βSmash Digital - a growth agency, filled to the brim with unicorn images and SEO memes. A team of SEOs with actual skin in the game, ranking their own portfolio of profitable businesses, and offering the exact same services to clients.
An agency with so much link juice youβll need a mop and bucket to clean it all up.
There wasnβt a dedicated space for entrepreneurial investors like usβ¦ so we created one. Join over 200 members interested in digital asset & start-up discussions, plus deal-flow. All in our paid community. π
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