Many inventors overlook free or nearly free resources that are right under their noses: nearby schools and universities. Schools have marketing and business departments and they are constantly on the lookout for projects in which to involve the students.
The marketing department of a nearby university can be an extremely valuable yet inexpensive resource for inventors [...]
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Legitimate Investors Websites
While there is a charge for a subscription to Inventors’ Digest Magazine, their website is completely free. You can find articles relevant to issues faced by the independent inventor, classified ads for services needed by independent inventors as well as a complete listing of tradeshows for all sectors of the market. For very reasonable fees, [...]
What were you thinking when you bought that fund?
Back-end loads may appear to be a good deal to you. Each year you hold the fund, the load goes down. After a year or two, the broker will recommend you switch funds. Many reasons can be given. You can avoid a taxable gain that will be distributed to you if you hold on. A [...]
The more difficult personal change process
The process of discovering who you are in relation to investments is different for everybody. We all start at different places based on our genetic makeup, our childhood, and our good or bad fortune, we move through
different experiences in life, and arrive at different places. This book does not claim that this simple three-step program [...]
Should I Get Professional help
It’s easy to see why you’d want to hire a professional to help you get out of debt. Just sorting out the paperwork can feel like you need an advanced degree. But unfortunately, most of what a financial planner or a debt counselor is going to tell you is either common sense or something you’ll [...]
The Value of Management Flexibility
If management flexibility, represented by real options, is the key to value creation, logic would seem to tell us that losing flexibility can destroy value. This section will illustrate this point.
The first example occurs under command-and-control conditions. In a planned economy, a plant manager may be rewarded only for producing his quota, which he will [...]