Inspiration and Resources for Building Financial Wealth
Whether you’re playing the game and looking for some inspiration or some help, or are brewing your own wacky idea, here is a list of resources and success stories to help you along the way.
Wacky Ideas
Every one of these ideas seemed crazy at first. Laughable, even. Who’s laughing, now?
- One Red Paperclip — A guy who traded a red paperclip for a house.
- The Million-Dollar Homepage — A kid who made a million dollars by selling space on his home page one pixel at a time.
- Plenty of Fish — A free dating site run by two people, the founder and his girlfriend, out of the founder’s apartment. They’re making over $1 million a year in Google Adsense revenue.
- How to Double Your Way to a Million — Stuart Goldsmith’s classic that inspired this site. Mr. Goldsmith has made millions over the years using the exact ideas he writes about.
Free Resources
With so many free tools available now, it’s easier than ever to make something out of nothing.
- The Gimp — A powerful free graphics editing tool. Why pay hundreds for Photoshop when the Gimp has almost all of the same functionality, and is free? All of the graphics you see on this site were created with it.
- Emacs — The best text editor in the world. This entire site was written in it. (No vi fanaticism, please.)
- Wordpress — A powerful, flexible, and easy-to-use blog publishing platform. This site is published using it.
- ReCaptcha — Having to enter distorted words to verify that you’re human is mildly annoying, but a necessary evil to stop the scourge of comment spam. ReCaptcha is a free service that actually makes use of the effort you make to decipher the words, because it uses real scans from old books that are being digitized. Thus, I ch0se ReCaptcha to provide the human verification for this site. Stop spam, and help preserve old books at the same time. What could be better?
Learn About Money
- The Motley Fool — A comprehensive financial education may be found on this site, all written with great humor and irreverence.
- Warren Buffett’s Annual Letters to Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders — Read every one of these letters from beginning to end, and you will learn more about business, the economy, the markets, and finance than in any MBA program in the world.