Articles from July 2010



Hustle and Flow

“Entrepreneurship is 99% hustle and 1% good ideas.”
-Joe Fernandez, Founder of Klout.com

At some point in your life, you are going to come up with a good idea. A really good idea. One of those “Million Dollar” ideas.

From the moment you think of this really great idea, you’re going to obsess over it. Ponder it. Adjust it. Hone it. And as you do, you’ll get more and more excited about how it’s going to revolutionize how the world looks at everything. It’s going to make the invention of sliced bread a mere footnote in the history books of inventions.

You’re really, really jazzed about this idea!!

To you, this idea is priceless. Its value defies measurability. Someone, somewhere is going to pay you millions and millions for this idea.

You’re sure. You’re positive. It’s going to happen.

Here’s the problem. An idea, rarely, makes money.

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Highlights, Favorites, Deals, & Oddities – Week of 7-26-10

20SomethingFinance Highlights:

  • Top 10 Cities for Young Professionals: My take on Kiplinger’s picks of the top 10 cities for young people. Very surprised to see my home town make the list.
  • Tracfone Review: A review of the prepaid wireless phone company Tracfone and comparison to another prepaid wireless company that Tracfone owns, Net10.
  • Unemployment Benefits Extended: A reader poll that asks whether or not you agree with the government’s move to extend unemployment benefits beyond the state standard of 26 weeks.
  • I also ran a post that highlights the top 7 iPad personal finance apps on Mint.com.

Other Personal Finance Highlights & Oddities:

  • The Cost of Convenience: Mini Bar Pricing (mint): A fun infographic that looks at how much those fun little bottles of liquor and Toblarone’s are costing you.

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Sector Highlight: Natural Gas ETFs

According to the Dashboard, among the top exchange traded funds (ETFs) this morning include natural gas ETFs. That’s because the Energy Information Administration (EIA) predicted that natural gas spot prices would rise above the 2009 average this year on projections of increased hurricane activity. Here are more stories on natural gas that may interest you:

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Deplete uranium bombs killing infants and causing cancers

Dear good people with conscience,

It is 4:30am in the morning on Sunday. Still waking up from my midnight prayer to God. Just the thought of the incredible amount of pain and suffering that these infants and cancer-sick people need to suffer bring tears immediately to my eyes. LOOK AT THE PICTURES!

We, as the nation of the most mighty military on Earth (at this moment), have dropped tons of depleted Uranium bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan along with Britain, and helping Israel to drop the same bombs in Gaza, causing not only birth defects in Iraqi infants above, but also serious health hazards in Iraqi civilians and US soldiers. After all, depleted Uranium has a radioactive half-life of 4.47 billion years, just about the age of Earth which is 4.54 billion years, and will continue to be radioactive for billions of years to come.

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