In two days I’ll be going to India, my last trip there was 6 years ago, and from what I hear, things have already dramatically changed since then.
What I’m mainly interested to see is how the rising middle class is affecting the country. Is it like the rise of the massive middle class in the [...]
Neville's Financial Blog
Tracking the road to financial success from the age of 22 (now 27).
Yearly Archives: 2006
Dec 16
Indian Entrepreneurship
Dec 04
New Ecommerce Website
A new venture I am working on is another ecommerce business which will be based on a Yahoo Store Ecommerce platform.
It will be called www.BodyMonkey.com
The name came from a body jewelry store I was going to create, but my lack of interest left the domain for dead. I then needed a temporary domain name to [...]
Nov 29
Screw Web 2.0 – Make Money with Simple Web Design
When I was in high school, EVERYONE had started a “Web design company” at one point.
It’s such a simple way of making money that seems to have been lost in all the talk of “AJAX” and “user generated content.” Web design is simple. You make a website, someone pays you…done.
A lot of people are caught [...]
Nov 22
Vegas, Wallet, BIDU, Money Update
My planned Vegas Gambling Experiment never reached fruition because the night of my birthday I lost my wallet.
I’ve since cancelled and renewed everything in there, but the lack of credit/debit cards left me powerless to purchase anything…so I only had $400 in cash for the trip after that point. This means blowing $200 on gambling [...]
Nov 17
Looking for a VEGAS MONEY EXPERIMENT
I’m in Vegas right now, and looking for some sort of money experiment to perform.
I’ll give it a $200 budget (Courtesy of Interest.com)
There’s tons of little gambling experiments I can do, but I want something relatively unique or fun.
-Two spins of $100 on black?-Couple pulls of the high stakes slots machines?-200 $1 slot machine [...]
Nov 14
Phone Gone – Neville Happy
My worst purchase ever is gone…and it took accidentally destroying it to happen.
Since I bought the phone in March 2006, I’ve paid Verizon Wireless $2,117 . This includes the phone, added features, overage charges, taxes, stupid fees and finally my cancellation charge for breaking the contract.
All that money for only 8 months of phone service.
In [...]
Nov 10
Illegal Business Idea of the Day
Possibly the most boring thing I’ve EVER done in my life is online defensive driving. In fact, the one time I took it, I cancelled it so I could take comedy defensive driving for $25 in person.
I’m sure this idea violates many, many, many laws, but it would be cool to outsource defensive driving to [...]
Nov 08
Personal Accounting, 21st Century Style!
It’s nice to know how much you’ve spent each month in real time. This helps keep your spending in check and is just a good way to keep track of finances. For the longest time I’ve been posting receipts and writing amounts on this dry erase / cork board. No more.
It frequently gets cluttered, is [...]
Nov 06
Pete Coors of Coors Brewing Company
The University of Texas brought Peter Coors to speak last week and I got a chance to attend. He is the current chairman of Coors Brewing Company. 20 minutes before the speech I Googled everything I could about Mr. Coors, and not to be mean, but he wasn’t my type of person.
The business people I [...]
Nov 03
Online Business Exceeds the $5,000 Mark
Through some simple marketing and a bit of luck, I’m glad to say House Of Rave received 530 orders this October! Profits exceeded $5,000 for the month which is good news. Hopefully I can successful sustain at least 80% of his profit level in the non-Halloween months. According to my sidebar, I made $1,120 in [...]
