My number is 10 Million by Jan 1st 2019.

As part of my growth engine to get me there, I will be using individual stocks. I first came across Phil Town's Book "Rule #1" about a year and a half ago (have I been reading Adrian's posts for that long?) on Adrian's 7million7years.com web site. I read it quickly, bought my first stock (Garmin) according the book's valuation principles and then promptly let everything fall by the wayside without bothering to actually implement the part of the strategy… Continue

As many of you know I have been trying to start up a greeting card company. The first test drive
will be happening just in time for Christmas. What kind of cards you might ask? Well Dah....Christmas
cards you silly thing.

The line will be simple hand drawn sketches from my limited artistic skills. I'll test the market here
in the mid west with those friends and family who will be willing to humor me as I seek to discover
if this'll fly or not.

I'll start with a set of eight different 5"X7" Chr… Continue

We use Ning to host this community site and one of the cool new features that they've added is "give a gift".

To try it, just click on a member's profile and select the 'give a gift' link.

I've looked at it, but haven't tried sending one (most of them look a little hokey to me ... and not terribly relevant to a personal finance web-site) ...

... but, hey, don't let that stop you: a gift might be a great way to recognize a fellow member's contribution.

If you try it, be sure to let us know wh… Continue

I had an idea recently to improve an existing product. It would take something that's already on the market and sells well (for years...) and make it more modern and hopefully, better.

You can't just invent it yourself because someone else already invented the primary product, right? This is literally a slight improvement and using the existing item but then adding on or modifying it to make it a bit better.

Would I have to contact the original creator to see if their interested in the idea? A… Continue

... particularly, if you are interested in property development (as a speculative/business activity) I have posted a spreadsheet that I developed to help me decide to go ahead with a recent land acquisition (a multi-story) residential property development site) on a new group that I have created for real-estate junkies on this forum:

http://shareyournumber.ning.com… Continue