17 critical questions to discuss with your partner about money and finances….it’s perhaps the best investment you can make in each other and in your relationship.
Why I started Hack Your Wealth (HYW001)
How I once lost 1/3 of my savings, how I then became a financial expert, how much wealth that expertise has created for me, and what I now teach on HYW.
How an early Microsoft alum was rejected by the toy industry, then went around it and built one of the world’s biggest board game franchises
“It’s not about how many times you get knocked down; it’s about how many times you get back up.” – Richard Tait, co-creator of Cranium
An entrepreneur turns down McKinsey to start a tech company; now his startup has Hearst, Gannett, Time Warner Cable, and AOL as customers
It’s when you take that leave of absence or quit your job to focus on the startup full-time that it becomes real. – Roger Lee, president at PaperG
The biggest entrepreneurship lessons this science major learned in two failed attempts starting a company, before nailing it the third time with a multi-million dollar venture-backed food startup
“In a startup, there are many situations where you just don’t know what you’re supposed to do because you’ve never seen it before. But it’s also really exciting because you get experience you may never get in a traditional job.” – Kevin Yang, EAT Club
How this liberal arts major found a finance trading job by networking with female traders on Facebook, then left the industry to shoot a documentary and start a company in microfinance
“I think I felt I had to do certain things coming out of school, but quickly realized that wasn’t the life I wanted to live.” – Rachel Cook, Microlending Film Project
What this state school graduate learned about cold e-mail subject lines that helped him get into finance (he’s now founder of a venture-backed Bitcoin startup)
“One small trick I learned involved e-mail subject lines.” – Avish Bhama, founder of Vaurum
How a lawyer and Peace Corps volunteer started a China-focused media company followed by thousands (eventually acquired by the Washington Post)
“In any career transition, what you are gaining potentially in the future is never going to feel as concrete as what you’re giving up now.” – David Wertime, Tea Leaf Nation
How a law school grad without work experience went straight into investment banking and then into hedge funds
“Merger arb is an investing strategy where you’re betting on whether a public M&A deal will actually go through.” – John Chen, BNP Paribas