I've got to credit my mom for inspiration on this one. I had seen her turn her life around by buying a business a couple of years before. Seeing that another life was possible gave me the energy to work stupid long hours until my head was above water. It was a great feeling, but it didn't stop there. 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.
This takes us to about 2010, when I started getting the Modest Money blog off the ground. MM didn't become my full time gig for a couple more years, but I had learned the basics of web marketing through one of my jobs, and I knew I could do this thing myself. I spent thousands of hours learning how to really do this thing. click here, click here I bought my house. I don't know if I just missed the memo on home ownership when I was growing up, but it has turned out to be an awesome way to build wealth. My home has appreciated about 7 percent every year I've owned it. Because my taxes and interest payments are written off on my taxes, that's a 28 percent return on my investment since I bought my house. Add to this the steadily building wealth I've gained through equity, and my home might be the single best investment I have made in life thus far. It makes me want to buy more real estate. 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
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