Understand your markets and customers
If you don’t take the time to understand how countries differ from one another, it will be an uphill battle to launch your product. There are vast cultural differences that can impact your growth.
Take a mobile product for example. It’s imperative that you consider the...
We all need money to function, but let’s face it: It can be an unwelcome source of tension in our lives. In fact, 54% of Americans claim that their finances cause them anxiety, according to new data from Northwestern Mutual. Specifically, here are the top three sources of money-related stress:
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Q: You’ve written that cash, or cash-based investments like money market funds and CDs, are a bad place to keep your assets because they pay next to nothing. With recent interest rate increases, is this still the case?
Generally speaking, I’m still an advocate of a well-allocated portfolio of stock-...
Most cash back cards require you to have good-to-excellent credit, meaning a credit score of 700 to 850, but some offer great rewards for those with lower scores.
To determine which card available to people with credit scores of 650-700 offers the best deal, CNBC Make It analyzed the most...
If you're going on vacation this summer, you've probably already booked some of the key elements, like your flight or cruise. But have you purchased travel insurance? Travel sites make it pretty easy these days to add trip protection to your purchase, but what does that fee get you,...
Keeping your financial life in shape takes time and planning, but there are some ideas and rules anyone can follow to help ensure that they are on the right track. Here are three personal finance basics everyone should follow to ensure their finances are in order:
Identify, Quantify and Prioritize...
If you think of your business as an extension of yourself, it’s easy to see how important it is to follow the same finance rules as you would for your personal financial health. Consider for a moment what would happen to your household if you had no cash on...
Self-made millionaire Sidney Torres built his fortune flipping homes in New Orleans. Today, he uses his money and expertise to help struggling property investors on CNBC's "The Deed."
On Wednesday's episode, Torres helps a close friend, James Brooks, finish a flip he's been working on for more than three years....
Are you on track to become a millionaire? If you're regularly saving and investing, you may already be well on your way to reaching that milestone by age 67.
But if you want to speed up the process, putting away more each month will help you get there sooner.
CNBC Make...
We all have bills to pay and financial goals to meet. Some of us can get there by cutting expenses in our budgets to eke out savings from our paychecks. But in many cases, getting our hands on extra money means taking on a side hustle.
A side hustle is...
