A List Of Accelerators, Incubators, And Fellowships For Startup Entrepreneurs

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Here is a list of accelerators, incubators, and fellowships for startup entrepreneurs. Starting a startup is tough. You will likely not succeed. But it’s always good to try! Maybe it’s destiny, but I just read an insightful article in The New York Times about entrepreneurship everyone who feels they are too old to start something should […]

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The Unfair Competitive Advantage Of The Wealthy: Being Genetically Frugal

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Do frugal people have an unfair competitive advantage when it comes to accumulating a prodigious amount of wealth because they were just born that way? I’m beginning to wonder based on two things that happened recently. 1) Homejoy, a three year old housecleaning startup, decided to close its doors after raising about $40 million in

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The Property Assessor Always Wins In A Bull Market – Filing An Appeal Is Useless

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Your goal as a homeowner is to enjoy your home and minimize costs as much as possible. If you can convince the property assessor that you live in a dump, then all the better! Unfortunately, in a rising property price environment, minimizing cost becomes much more difficult due to rising property taxes. When things are going

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What Happens When A P2P Borrower Stops Paying?

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Sometimes P2P borrowers stop paying. Then what? I’ve been an investor with Prosper, a peer-to-peer (P2P) lending company since 2012. I usually check my account once a quarter to view my performance and to re-invest cash that has come in from borrower payments. Per my latest passive income update, the annualized return of all of the notes in

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How Often Should You Refinance Your Primary Home Mortgage?

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Are you wondering how often should you refinance your primary home mortgage? You’ve come to the right place because I’ve refinanced dozens of mortgages since buying my first property in 2003. The shorter answer is you should refinance your mortgages as many times as possible to save money! Mortgage rates collapsed during the global pandemic.

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Why I Left Wall Street To Start A Fintech Company

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The following is a guest post by Sliced Investing co-founder, Mike Furlong. He eagerly left Wall Street to launch this start up. Sliced Investing is backed by Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures, TriplePoint Venture Growth, Data Collective, and Carnegie Mellon. Funny enough, I also left Wall Street so I could focus on Financial Samurai. I spent this

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