Nick Hodge,
Publisher
Jan. 13, 2022
Everybody talks about stocks and the stock market and the S&P. And we have publications that dabble in macro themes and give you guidance on which ETFs and which S&P sectors to buy.
That's mainstream retail investing.
But we also do lots of other styles of investing, including private investing, which has become really popular in the past couple of years because of the lucrative upside that it presents when you can fund a company privately and then leverage the upside it gets by going public.
There's also been a lot of newsletter writers playing dress up in this space, or playing Barbie doll, if you will, pretending that they're private investors or pretending that they have access to private investments when in reality they're talking about crowdfunding deals or deals that are open to people that are not accredited investors.
For real private investments you have to be accredited to participate. It's the big boys' sandbox. It's not the little kids' playground.
The private investments that we do are not playing dress up. We're writing real checks into these deals, and that includes myself.
A couple of deals that I'll mention here in a second I wrote large checks into, and as a result generated large returns — not just for myself but for the other accredited investors that follow my advice when it comes to these private deals, including some famous publishers that you would most definitely know if I were to reveal their names. They’re on my list to get access to these private deals.
So this isn't an “everyone-can-participate” deal. This isn't Angels and Entrepreneurs where you might be sending your money to a company that's never going to go public.
This is putting high-risk speculative capital to work in private deals that are already public or have a firm timeline to go public.
Last year we doubled our money on average for every deal that we closed out. More than a 100% return on average. Let me run through some of the larger wins that allowed us to have that +100% average per private deal return. These are closed out, by the way, cashed out… money in the bank for whatever you want money in the bank for — kids' college, pools, cars, whatever.
We funded VSBLTY (CSE: VSBY)(OTC: VSBGF) at C$0.30. And last year it ran to C$1.30 and we bagged 333% gains. That's a facial recognition startup that partnered with a global beverage distributor to put its facial recognition technology in bodegas across Mexico and South America. So over 300% returns on that one.
We funded a company called Critical Elements Resources (TSX-V: CRE)(OTC: CRECF) at C$0.30 that's bringing a new lithium mine online in Quebec. I'm sure you know the world needs lots of lithium right now. And lithium prices are absolutely through the roof. We funded Critical Elements in 2020 at C$0.30 and last year it ran to $1.40. So we banked 366% gains, and we're not done yet because that private deal came with warrants. So while the stock is currently trading at $1.45, we can buy more at C$0.45 and cash in again… triple our money again on that one without any additional risks.
We also financed a company called RESAAS Services (TSX-V: RSS)(OTC: RSASF) at C$0.20. That's a real estate online platform. The easiest way to think about it is sort of like a Facebook for real estate agents that allows them to share leads and collect commissions, things like that. We funded that one at C$0.20 and it went to C$1.30, and we banked 550% profits. And we weren't done with that one either because we had full warrants at C$0.20 — the same price as the original investment! So we were able to make 500% on our money twice with RESAAS.
And then the last one I'll mention quickly is Rupert Resources (TSX-V: RUP)(OTC: RUPRF), which is developing a gold project in Finland. We bought shares at C$0.85 in 2019, and we sold them last year as they ran to over C$5.50 for a return over 550%. And so I was in all these deals as were my subscribers. And not everyone can get into these deals. That's why, frankly, lots of people want to be in them. It's sort of like a velvet rope, right? Like I said, it's the big kids’ sandbox, but not everyone can sit at the big kids’ table.
To get in these deals you have to have annual income that exceeds $200,000 (or $300,000 together with a spouse). Or you have to have a net worth over a million dollars. And that's just the way it is.
If someone's telling you you can get into a private deal without being accredited, it's not a real private deal. It may never go public. It might not even intend to go public. It might just be a marketing thing.
These private deals are real. Real money is going into them and real people, including names that you would recognize in the financial publishing industry, are investing in these deals at my advice as well.
We've done a number of deals recently, but the one that's open now that you can participate in is a private oil driller. It's not public yet. It's doing a round at C$0.10 while it's still private. It has 10,000 acres in British Columbia. It's using a new multilateral wellbore technology to unlock heavy oil in British Columbia, similar to what's been done in Alberta in the Clearwater Basin with companies like Headwater Exploration and Tamarack Valley and others that have gone up 100% to 300% in the past year or so as they've used that technology to unlock heavy oil in other basins.
And this company that we're funding now intends to do the same thing. They have 10,000 acres. They're going to use the proceeds from this round of C$0.10 funding to acquire more land and to drill a test vertical well to confirm the API of the oil. And once they do that, then it's on.
They'll likely raise money at three to four times the current price — C$0.30 or C$0.40. So you'll have three to four times upside right there on the C$0.10 shares that you can buy now. And then they'll IPO and they'll continue to execute their plan.
The NPV numbers on this project, at $60 oil, are showing that just the 10,000 acres they currently have could potentially contain $140 million in oil production value. And the valuation that this round is being done at is under C$2 million. So on a potential NPV basis, you're looking at 70 times upside.
And that's how we make real money as private investors on real deals.
This one happens to be in the oil space. But I do it across the board. You just saw a facial recognition and lithium deal. I've done weed deals. I've done crypto deals. I've done cybersecurity deals.
So if you're interested in that sort of private investing… if you're interested in the oil deal I just described... if you have the ability and you meet the accredited investor definition to write $10,000 or $20,000 or $50,000 checks into private startups to potentially make a quarter million or more return on each deal…
Then you should check out Hodge Family Office. That's the highest tier research I offer. It's access to private deals from companies and executives in my network.
The oil deal I just mentioned closes on January 25th... so you'll need to get your funds in by January 21st.
But first, you'll need to become a member of Hodge Family Office.
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