When it comes to starting your own business, the buzzword these days is the “list,” which, of course, refers to your email list. But before you can start sending out all those enticing offers to people at their computers and on their cell phones, you need to decide what business you want to be in. [...]
Archive for January, 2011
Throughout history, there have been almighty few true titans when it comes to successful investing. Warren Buffett is one. Though he began his fortune with little money of his own, Buffett built an investment company along the way (Berkshire Hathaway) that would eventually create a personal net worth of almost $50 billion dollars. And how [...]
If you haven’t read the American classic book, Catch-22, by Joseph Heller, the plot boils down to your basic “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” scenario. In particular, the main character, Yossarian, is a WWII bombardier who hated flying bombing missions so much he wanted the doctor to declare him insane, thus unfit [...]
Actually the following list of expensive financial mistakes applies to older people as well, but we’re targeting the younger generation in the hopes someone out there will take the knowledge to heart and not be forced to learn this particular wisdom the hard way. The current recession has delivered a huge WTF wake up call [...]
A recent survey brings word that 92% of people with more than $1 million in investable assets have not abandoned the stock market, even during the past few years of bloodletting. What this proves is that just because an action is taken by someone with plenty of money, it doesn’t necessarily follow that the action [...]
Business majors and full time stock market investing geeks like to spend their spare time poring over esoteric data behind a company. They want to know the flux to capacitor ratio, the tron squared derivative and the E=MC² before they’re ready to pull the trigger on any deal. Sorry, boys, but sometimes you have to [...]
Jason Hartman talks with Frank Corbin. There’s an old saying that goes, “Those who can, do. Those who can’t teach.” In many cases this is true. This saying needs to be modernized, however, because many who can, do – and then they go on to teach. Such was the case with Frank Corbin at http://jasonhartmanfoundation.org/articles/young-wealth-show/. [...]