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I started saving. For over a year, I was putting upwards of $1,000 into debt balances, every single month. Now I had no more debt. I kept working at the same rate for about half a year, still saving that much every month. But I started saving it in several key areas: 1) a six-month emergency fund, 2) a fund for the down payment of a house, 3) monthly contributions into my fresh new individual retirement account, 4) a fund for travel and 5) a fund to help start my business. click here, click here

Corporate finance teams have been slower than their counterparts in sales and human resources to embrace cloud software options, but more are finding spreadsheets inadequate for financial planning.

I went to conferences, learned coding and talked to anybody who knew something I didn't about blogging. I also started a couple of side web ventures, a couple of which are still going strong today. Today, my work life is pretty fluid. Some days I work for other people, many days just for myself. I have a lot of residual income streaming in from many sources. If one business goes belly up, I know there are different revenue streams that will survive. The same goes for my investments. click here, click here The Hero in Your Future click here, click here Just a personal project, but it's something close to my heart. The way I look at it, it's a way I can grow my money while providing a service that people actually need. click here Investments for my children. I don't have kids, and my girlfriend and I have no specific plans. But I want them someday. Before I start reproducing, I want to have investments in place for them to at least be able to go to college, to get a level of education somewhat better than the one I had. click here

Evidence: several venture-backed startups pioneering this space—notably Anaplan, Host Analytics and Tidemark—just reported record growth during 2014. Their specialty: applications for producing budgets and forecasts an ongoing process. click here

Tidemark (which has raised $80 million in venture capital) tripled total revenue under contract. Its customers include BlackBerry, Chiquita, Hostess, HubSpot and Netflix; and its technology interoperates with applications from Workday, Salesforce, Box, NetSuite, and New Relic. click here