Past Weekend Update
New account balances are as follows:General Account - $ 1,357
Spending Account - $ 77
Spending Account 2 - $ 403
Investment Account - $ 2,523
Bill Account - $ 981
Permanent Savings - $ 5,549
Charity Account - $ 338
Stock Portfolio Value - $ 11,323
Roth IRA - $ 6,574
Emigrant Direct - $ 1,007
Total Liquid Assets - $ 30,132
Credit Card Balance - $ 0
Business Holding - $ 5,309
Total On Hand - $ 35,441
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My first stock sale in a while occurred on Friday. I had a $23 limit order set for Syntel (SYNT), and made a profit of $681. I'm in the process of restructuring my portfolio, so I will start buying around October which is generally not a very hot month for the stock market.
I've accumulated $5,549 in my permanent savings account which is earning a very small amount of interest (less than 1%). I need to put some of this money back to work in low-risk areas.
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I found the popular marketing blog Brand Autopsy pretty interesting, and recently asked the fellow Austinite John Moore to coffee. We met up and had a great conversation. After spending years in the marketing departments of Starbucks and Whole Foods, he really knows his stuff.
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My income for April was pretty slim. Several stock shortages forced me to cancel several orders, leaving House of Rave profit at only $1,080 for the month. Ouch! I'm looking to correct that discrepancy this month.
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This past week I had the opportunity to attend a huge event held in Austin. CEO's and politicians were in abundance, but my favorites were Michael Dell, Steve Ballmer and Colin Powell. Unlike the speeches I usually attend which have mostly students present, the subject matter was much different. The resounding theme of this conference was: Making the world a better place through the use of technology.
I've never seen Michael Dell do a solo speech, but he was actually really good and pretty funny too. The day before his speech I got to speak with Mr. Dell one-on-one for about 3 minutes which was rather fun!
He had so much security around him that I didn't dare approach him for a picture without permission. Instead I asked his head press secretary to take these pictures for me.
Labels: Meeting CEO's
posted by Neville @ 4:50 PM
44 comments
44 Comments:
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You're very lucky to attend the WCIT conference, I saw it on the national news.
They have their uses, but it comes to a point where you need to stop talking and and take some action. It's like the analogy of people who read 100 success/entreprenuer books, but never take action. They are NOT successful.
I do enjoy all your old entries, but I find myself visiting your site much less now due to all these non-productive events.
I dont leave comments much but i read this thing every week or so. Its Great!
Anyhow, Ill e-mail you soon, ttyl
Colin Powell is working for www.kpcb.com/team/index.php?25 right now !? Very popular Private Equity + Venture Capital at the moment... somtimes very aggressive.
Here is the link:
http://www.me2press.com/free.html
I have to agree with what anonymous said above: I too would love to see more posts on your business activities, rather than pictures of you with various CEOs. Keep them for the photo album, and the blog for the real stuff!
Keep up the hard work :)
I will try to start posting more about business stuff, but there is obviously a degree of privacy I need to maintain when partnering with others...so unfortunately I cannot divulge everything.
Also, meeting these CEO's are a challenge on their own. Much of the time I don't give the full story, but they are often fun adventures or events!
I'll try to keep it more relevant :-)
Neville wants to meet people, let him do his damn meeting people thing. You probably wish you met those people in the first place.
Neville has a personal blog, not a private business, you are not his clients, he gets to write whatever the heck he wants here, its his journal.
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Taking some action? like what? writting a dumb comment on an unproductive blog ?
ts....
wtg nev. =)
then he should change the name of the blog to nev's free his willy blog -
it has moved away from a financial blog
I'm not sure how you got to attended this event Nev, but this was a big one! Pretty cool to hang out with some of the most influential people in IT in the world. Thanks for sharing.
How about you tell your fan club how you were able to attend this event. You must be very important to get into all these amazing events.... oh what is your secret....
How about you tell your fan club how you were able to attend this event. You must be very important to get into all these amazing events.... oh what is your secret....
Obviously I realise Nev is free to post what he wants, but I am also free to suggest that he posts more on certain topics that I (and probably others) will enjoy and benefit from.
While I agree that he is not my client, I might argue that I am his. Why post a blog on the web if not for others to consume it? "To keep a diary" you might say, and if that is the case, why not just keep a diary offline? It's a similar situation to women wearing scanty clothes - they do it so that others will look at them. There's nothing wrong with suggesting what might earn them even more favorable glances. Without people viewing his blog, it becomes little more than an offline diary anyway.
If you want to stand up for free speech, go protest to Gee Dubbya.
@Nev...
Thanks for your reply, and I look forward to your future posts. :)
I enjoy reading your post when you go to these events. I also like your business post and ideas. As I know from my own blog sometimes it is difficult to come up with a topic to post. When you do not have business ideas to post the events work well so I say keep posting them. I know if you are working on outside projects that you have to keep them secret. Why not post little tid bits a general idea that will not give away your project, but will spark talk from the community on your blog.
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Well it would not be much of a chain letter if it didn't claim completley unrealistic things would it ;)
My Blog
My Website
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Hope you find some luck getting your income moving up.
Just like the pixel idea, a copy-cat wannabe business idea, even though he said no ads on site ever.
Enough of this blog for me, it's useless now.
Keep blogging dude, have no idea where u've gone!
I'm still here doing just fine...busier than ever! I'll post soon :-)
Obviously I realise Nev is free to post what he wants, but I am also free to suggest that he posts more on certain topics that I (and probably others) will enjoy and benefit from.
While I agree that he is not my client, I might argue that I am his. Why post a blog on the web if not for others to consume it? "To keep a diary" you might say, and if that is the case, why not just keep a diary offline? It's a similar situation to women wearing scanty clothes - they do it so that others will look at them. There's nothing wrong with suggesting what might earn them even more favorable glances. Without people viewing his blog, it becomes little more than an offline diary anyway.
If you want to stand up for free speech, go protest to Gee Dubbya.""
Your deepest values are corrupted by delusion that every woman is similar, and you use that argument to argue something completely different. You should revue your core values.
If you keep on generalizing without realizing that everything is unique, you'll never understand reality.
Some woman wear good looking clothes because it makes them feel good, not because they want someone like you wanting to meet them, the same goes for men.
If you want to argue you will need better arguments.
Neville: drop me a note if you have time :)
it says here http://www.moneysavingfreetips.com/emmigrant-bank.html "However, if you put that same $15000 into an Emmigrant Direct Savings account yielding 4.65% interest, you will have made $675 in a 1 year period. Therefore, $675 - $75 = $600 more with the Emmigrant Bank Savings account!"
is 4.65% too good to be true? how do i open such an account?
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