When you join a company, you may have to decide between equity o cash compensation. Usually, the equity or cash compensation is split more heavily towards cash. However, at a startup, you may elect to have lower cash compensation for more equity compensation. As a veteran worker who has received cash and equity compensation over […]
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And just like that, I’m no longer in the 800+ credit score club full of beautiful people. As part of my mortgage application process, the bank had to pull my credit score. The big white envelope in the mail with the results reminded me of my college acceptance letter way back in 1994. When I
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From Debtor To Millionaire is a guest post from J.D. Roth, who founded the blog Get Rich Slowly in 2006 and is the author of Your Money: The Missing Manual. I first met JD in 2010 for lunch up in Portland when I was still working. By that time, J.D. was already a mini-celebrity in
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I don’t understand people who don’t use credit cards. Not only do you get an interest free loan for 30 days, you also get rewards points. Perhaps even more importantly, you get fraud and conflict protection. In “When Saving Money Is No Longer Worth Your Time But You Do It Anyway,” I called up my
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After drinking a couple beers with a buddy a couple months ago, I dragged myself across the street to get a flu shot at Walgreens. Supposedly this season was one of the worst, and I had no desire to get swine flu. I hate needles. The insertion isn’t what bothers me. What irks me is
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Earnings Beyond The Wallet is a guest post by Colleen from KongSavage.com. She wants to know how do you measure success if not by monetary means. Earnings Beyond The Wallet How do you measure success when money is not your forté? Numbers overwhelm me. My fourth grader cruises about YouTube looking for videos on binary
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Concentration risk can cause an investment portfolio to underperform or be too volatile for your own liking. Concentration risk is why you need to analyze your investment portfolio at least once a year. I suggest you rebalance your portfolio twice a year because your positions can change quite drastically as a percentage of your portfolio
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Are you wondering whether to finally get an electric vehicle (EV)? As a Tesla shareholder since 2018, I’m happy to report that now is a great time to get an electric vehicle! There are more charging stations and the price of electronic vehicles has come way down, especially Tesla car prices. At last, the charging
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Who doesn’t like a pair of nice fitting jeans? Did you know that you can use the jeans strategy to save more for retirement and stay in better shape to boot? What the heck is the jeans strategy? Read on to learn how jeans can inspire you to save money and stay healthy. For the
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Zillow is broken or simply can’t be trusted to provide accurate online estimates for properties. Please don’t trust Zillow to be accurate. Instead, use Zillow as a reference point and invite real estate agents to give you a better price assessment. In January 2014 I wrote a post entitled, “Exploit Online Data To Lower Your
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