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Documenting my journey from the corporate world to entrepreneur. And then getting really rich.

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Don’t make a stock purchase under $1,000

January 5th, 2008 · No Comments

$1,000 is currently my minimum amount for making a stock purchase, because the $7 transaction fee comes to less than 1%, and the potential return or loss on $1,000 is just enough to make me do my due diligence seriously. (Otherwise the return on time is not worth it.)
My rule of money number 1, was […]

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No zero sum deals

December 7th, 2007 · No Comments

One beautiful thing about money is that it generally represents the effect of a win-win transaction. I think most people view money as a fight between the haves and have-nots. The standard view is that there is a given amount of wealth available, and that wealth is simply redistributed around by money transactions. That’s not […]

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