Archive | Finance

28 January 2010 ~ Comments

How US Economy has changed overtime?

How the US economy has changed overtime?  The below Mint Map shows how the movement of people from one state to another has affected the state economies.  Look at the dark red color states – Michigan, California and New York are among the most affected states. The obvious reason I guess would be that these states [...]

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19 October 2009 ~ Comments

How to become a successful entrepreneur

Mint CEO Aaron Patzer on Startups from Techcrunch on Vimeo.
Learn how to become a successful entrepreneur. Amazing transparency presented by the Mint CEO, which was acquired by Quicken for ~$150 Million.  I am sure no one else has ever given such a detailed insight of how they became what they are today.  A really [...]

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03 August 2009 ~ Comments

Map: Cost of Living in America – The Change

One good thing about recession is that the cost of living in America has become more affordable. Mint Blog has produced a map which show the data in various cities.  This map shows how much the cost of living has changed in corresponding cities.
Looking at the data, it appears that New York, Washington DC, Houston [...]

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29 July 2009 ~ Comments

Social Financing – An Alternate Financing

I was going through an interesting article on BigThink today. There is no doubt, the culture is shifting towards ‘Social Financing’. Some call it as ‘Crowd Funding’.
Crowd funding, inspired by crowd sourcing, describes the collective cooperation, attention and trust by people who network and pool their money together, usually via the Internet, in order to [...]

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16 April 2009 ~ Comments

Over 10 Free Money Management Services to help you manage your finance better

Image by ZeroOne via Flickr
Earn – Spend – Invest – Save, right.  That’s what you do with the money you earn.
But most of times you lose track of your income, expenditure, investment and savings.  You don’t know how much you are spending every month on Shopping, Restaurants, Gas & Groceries etc etc….  Last month you [...]

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05 January 2009 ~ Comments

What current Financial Crisis can do to some companies?

I wanted to give this new year a fresh start with something funny.  And when financial crisis of these days is always on the mind, what could be more funnier than to present you with some pictures.
These pictures reflect the effect of economy downturn on some company logos and their tag line.  Some of them [...]

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16 October 2007 ~ Comments

Booming Indian Sensex – Crossed 19000 mark

I remember writing last year about the surging Indian Sensex which was then the record high 13000. But look at the current Indian market, the Sensex has again broken all records and crossed the 19000 mark. That is awesome.

According to the Hindu article about the surging Sensex, India is in a [...]

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