J.C.’s Money Blog

We all know the big stories about the Internet giants, Google, Amazon, Craigslist, Facebook, YouTube. One or two guys start a website that dominates Internet traffic and becomes worth a billion dollars or so.
But there are plenty of other fascinating stories out there of other Internet Entrepreneurs who didn’t make billions, but they made [...]

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Yesterday I sold 40 shares of SPY @ 135.27. I am considering putting in an offer on car that costs a bit more than $6,000, so I need the cash to cover that and ongoing expenses. I really hate the feeling of lower my equity positions, but I knew going to this road wouldn’t be [...]

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I found an interesting site today while playing around: adgridwork.com. When you sign up for the site, it allows you to place ads on your page, much like Google’s adsense, but the difference is that you don’t get paid with revenue, but rather with traffic back to your site.
If you look at the bottom of [...]

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I turned in my resignation from my job last week but have offered to help out for a bit longer than usual, so that I can tie up some loose ends, and so that my employer has a chance to find a replacement for me. As the news has spread to my colleagues, it is [...]

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One reason why I decided to quit my corporate job, is that I have a valuable asset, which I am not taking advantage of. This asset is risk tolerance.
I work at a huge, stable global corporation. The risk that my company will not send me my paycheck each month is essentially zero. My paycheck is [...]

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I determined that I can likely make significantly more money working on websites than I can with my corporate job. One major point of concern for me which has prevented me from getting started right away is my unvested 401k match.
Next year in September, my retirement account through work completely vests. Right now my unvested [...]

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Creating wealth (or even just an income to get by) is about resource allocation. That is in fact the essence of economics, the systems by which resources are allocated. For corporations the two main resources are labor and capital. Labor has a cost in terms of wages, and capital has a cost (opportunity cost when [...]

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Yesterday was the first day back from vacation, and I’m really looking forward to quitting my job now. It looks like I have lots of travel scheduled in the coming weeks, so my job is going to eat into my free time as well. I will enjoy being out of the office though. I guess [...]

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