Previously, I emailed you that I am currently fundraising for my Financial education start-up - Investing Accelerator. This is now coming to a close - September 1 Problem: 45-65 individuals who have no financial background want to retire earlier and generate more monthly passive income for retirement Solution: The educational program called Investing Accelerator is born. We focus on helping 45 - 65 individuals who want to retire by teaching them how to generate monthly passive income and use long-term investing strategies to multiply their return. So far, we have helped 500+ students and have over $1M+ in revenue. Here's the link to the video: https://5mininvesting.com/fund-raising-round/ Fundraising result: $800K USD with another $200K in the pipeline The share price is $10 USD per share. Lessons learned along the way: Overall, this is a great exercise for myself and my team. #1 - As we all know, fundraising isn't easy as the requirement is for an individual to be an accredited investor in their country (e.g. $200K in income or $1M+ in net asset excluding their home) #2 - Initially, I went through a lot of work to enable IRA accounts to be invested in the company. Ultimately, there are many additional hurdles that prevent people from investing using IRA accounts. From now on, anyone who uses an IRA account will require a USD 1,000 application fee (non-refundable) just because of how difficult it is. #3 - The dilemma of angel investing is as I expected. Angel investing is the earliest stage of a startup. It has the highest risk (despite the company being profitable already) and also the highest potential reward - share price being the lowest. Getting the initial few angel investors are crucial to making your company work. Once we head into the next round of raising $20M, angel investing will be much less important as it is difficult to find 200 angels to invest versus finding only 4 institutional investors for $5M each

Adding a bit more information on the previous result where I made 60.48% this year so far. It contains index funds and also a few big tech stocks such as AAPL, and others. Here you will see part of the account statement after I implemented Version 4 of the strategy for my index fund portfolio (plus a few big tech stocks). AAPL +$117,487.86​​​​​​ GOOGL +$20,555.82 LULU +$28,548.28 MSFT -$22,781.95 Plus my index fund positions are not closed yet.​ LULU is an one-off position for this portfolio as I happened to capture that earning move.​​ ​ Cheers, Eric ------- Eric Seto Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) Chartered Investment Manager (CIM) Founder of 5MinInvesting.com Free webinar - how to get 30%: https://5mininvesting.com/free-case-study/ In June, my goal is to help 10 people without a financial background to master investing. Investing Accelerator is designed for people without a financial background. The goal is to achieve 30% return per year. In the first phase, you will learn long term investing and targeting 30% for tax free compound growth. This will help accelerate your overall wealth. In the second phase, you will learn monthly passive income to provide a more predictable cash flow (target 30% per year) which can cover your expenses. This will help accelerate your retirement goals. If you are interested, then let's hop on a call to see if you can benefit from the strategies in Investing Accelerator and get 30% per year. During the call, we will map out exactly how you can achieve 30%, what you are lacking, how you can improve. If you have any questions about the program, you can ask during the call as well. Schedule a call here: https://bit.ly/48mJlgR Remember to go to the Classroom tab for additional investing resources.

Since we are all here learning, let's share your favourite investing tip in the comments below. Here's my favourite: To make money, you don't need to be faster than the machine learning hedge funds but you just need to be more accurate. Explanation: Investing is not about being reactive to the market. If you plan ahead, do your analysis, you will make money even if you focus on the higher timeframes (bigger picture). What's your favourite investing tip?