You may ask yourself: why start a business? The better question to ask yourself is: why haven’t I started a business already! The pandemic forced many of us to get creative. And business formation has skyrocketed since 2020. When I started Financial Samurai in 2009, I didn’t start it as a business. I started this […]
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Parents looking to leave work, listen up! As someone who literally wrote the book on how to negotiate a severance, let me share with you a severance negotiation success story if you want to leave your job to spend more time with your kids. Severance negotiation success stories give uncertain employees more confidence to negotiate
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The best way to get rich is to turn funny money into real assets. By turning funny money gains into real assets, you increase your chances of holding onto your gains. But what is funny money? Funny money is money that is built upon far out assumptions that may never come true. Funny money is
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Learn more about how to reduce your 401K mutual fund fees through portfolio analysis with Personal Capital.
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Self-publishing a book is one way to make money from home. If you have your own website, you can sell the book there and control its price. You can sell your book via your social media platforms. Or you can also sell your book via Amazon and other established online book platforms. As someone who
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At last, I finally experienced the longest month of my life: June 2020. I’m so glad the month and the quarter are behind us. But it’s also exhausting to think about what lies ahead in an even longer July as America experiences a second wave of COVID-19 cases. In this 2Q2020 Financial Samurai review, I
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The sooner you start planning for retirement the better. Too many people wake up 20 years from now and wonder where all their money went. By having specific financial goals by age, your retirement will be more comfortable than if you had decided to just wing it. I suspect being overwhelmed with choices is one
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Children are expensive. The more you love your children, the more expensive they will likely be! Therefore, you should have a net worth goal before having children. This way, you can provide them the world without getting overly stressed about your finances. Money is constantly a top three reason why couples fight. And once you
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This post will provide a guide for how much your net worth or savings should be based on income. Too many people go through life just winging their finances. No wonder why most people end up in old age wondering where all their money went. If you’ve been making $500,000 a year for a decade
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Back in the summer of 2012 I decided to test my house on the market to coincide with the Facebook IPO. (Should I Sell My House As Facebook Goes Public?) Although I didn’t want to sell my house, I was in a peculiar stage in my life where I just negotiated a severance from my
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