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Should You Be An Entrepreneur?

Austin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:30:07 +0000

Should you join the millions of people every year who take the plunge and start their first ventures? Daniel Isenberg, a former entrepreneur and management practice professor, examines the personal qualities and mind set that tend to be common amongst the successfully self-employed.

Daniel further states, which caught my eye, on the average, people who set up their own businesses don’t make more money, although a few do succeed in grabbing the brass ring. But the “psychic benefits” — the challenge, autonomy, recognition, excitement, and creativity — make it all worthwhile.

Take the 2–minute Isenberg Entrepreneur Test, to help you find out.

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Changing credit card information on PayPal? Be careful

Austin — Fri, 01 May 2009 10:33:15 +0000

Here’s a tip: If you have to replace a card on Paypal, first add the new card, and then delete the old card if you have subscriptions. Just adding the new card to your account won’t switch the subscriptions over, it will still cancel any subscriptions that were started on the old card.

To know more, read Rita Wilhelm’s experience about this.

The Chinese iTunes Gift Voucher Trick

Austin — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:54:05 +0000

Outdustry is reporting that China’s biggest C2C online shopping site, Taobao, is the platform used for selling the cards. “All the seller actually sells is the gift voucher code which they send you directly through Taobao’s IM software. You can then redeem the card in your iTunes account,” Outdustry explains.

So, this gives Apple a depressing price point for its iTunes services in an otherwise unfathomable online music market: $2.60 (18RMB) for $200USD worth of products.

* Update: Bumped into a blog that has a step-by-step tutorial for those of you who don’t understand chinese.

Be warned, this is probably illegal where you live.

If you lose your cards, Citi has a novel rescue

Austin — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 16:08:07 +0000

If your wallet is ever stolen, now you needn’t contact all the banks to freeze the different credit or debit cards that were in your wallet. Just one phone call will solve the matter.

Citibank, in partnership with CPP Assistance Services, has launched a card protection plan wherein you don’t only get protection for your Citibank credit or debit cards, but also for those of other issuers, and even non-financial ones such as store, loyalty and membership cards.

The cardholder is also protected from any fraudulent use that may have occurred seven days prior to discovery and within 24 hours of notification of card loss. CPP Assistance is a subsidiary of CPP Group, a global leader in the assistance services market.

[Source] — Read more @ Hindustan Times

Investment Musings

Austin — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 07:30:13 +0000

It feels great when your blog post is a source of inspiration for others to start a new blog. And that’s precisely what happened with this post Black Money Saves Our Financial Sector.

Jeff Miller made a nice comment stating that I missed a key point in the US housing / loan problem and he went further explaining what exactly I had missed. Thanks Jeff !

Quoting Jeff:

You know….

I spent so long with that comment that I decided that it needed to be an article.

Then I didn’t know where to post it. So I created a new blog for it and others like it.

Thank you for inspiring yet another blog.

Check out his blog Investment Musings

148th Edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance!

Austin — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:35:47 +0000

Gather Little by Little has hosted the 148th Edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance! and The Orange Paper is listed in the Real Estate section. Be sure to check all the fantastic articles listed in the carnival.

Money Hacks Carnival #6

Austin — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:55:33 +0000

Just received an email from Peter who informed me that The Orange Paper is listed at the Money Hacks Carnival # 6.

Hmm… feels good

Thanks Peter!

Blogsvertise.com – Get Paid Per Post

Austin — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:37:28 +0000

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I have just signed up with Blogsvertise, because which personal blogger doesn’t want to be paid for their work? I’m going to experiment with this form of freelancing. And their policy is that they will not require writers to say only good things about their advertisers. So if anyone wants to make a few bucks, give registering with Blogsvertise a go — it can’t hurt.

In short, Blogsvertise.com = A Nice Way to Make a Little Extra Money

(This is a sample post about Blogsvertise that they ask us to post in order to make sure we understand the concept.)

Q&A session with Mr. Warren Buffett

Austin — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:40:39 +0000

I came across an interesting blog post by Dang Le an MBA student at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School. The post is about students from Emory’s Goizueta Business School and McCombs School of Business at UT Austin who were invited to come visit Mr. Warren Buffett for a Q&A session.

Enjoy!