When You Got Nothing, You Got Nothing to Lose

September 22, 2010

As I was visiting friends in Chicago, I  noticed a few things I hadn’t before. First, all over the city, there are Zip Cars and iGo stations. Both of these companies are on demand rental car services. You sign up online, get a card, and rent any car you want any time. You pay for [...]

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How to Create Your Own MBA

September 20, 2010

I talk a lot about Big Hairy Audacious Goals on this site. It’s about time I let you in on one of my own. There are few things I enjoy more than learning and applying what I have learned. There are days, I contemplate going back to school to get my MBA. However, when I [...]

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Weekend Reading – Elevator Speech Edition

September 18, 2010

I have been going through, ProBlogger’s 31 Days to Build a Better Blog course, in an effort to improve Gen Y Wealth. The first day’s task, was to design an elevator pitch. This is something I have done before in various sales classes in my career, but the first time I thought about it for [...]

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How to Live Like Royalty

September 17, 2010

A conversation between two great writers, Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller, inside of a billionaire’s mansion, summed up personal finance better in one sentence than I have here in 200 posts. Vonnegut kindly reminder his pal Heller, that the man who owned this house, made more money in a one day as a hedge fund [...]

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Why You Should Blog

September 15, 2010

If you want to laugh so hard that the dimples on your face start to hurt, watch Aziz Ansari’s stand up special Intimate Moments for a Sensual Evening. My brothers and I still joke about this special, 9 months after watching it.Getting your own special is something a comedian works years for. I’m guessing that [...]

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