Scrooge Strategy

Archives —
February, 2006

You are viewing the I Will Teach You To Be Rich Archives. If you are looking for a specific post, try using the search box on the top right of the page

6

Looking for a blog/CMS/CSS wizard

I’m looking for an expert in blog CMS (MoveableType and Wordpress). Bonus points if you know CSS. If you can help, please let me know.

17

10 things about yourself that would surprise you

What would happen if you tracked these things?
1. How much $ you spend per month
2. How long you spend talking to your family per month
3. How much time you spent working on the thing you say is your “passion” last month
4. How far you walk every day
5. How much you read NOT from a computer
6. [...]

7

My advice to Facebook

My friend Noah Kagan is a product manager at Facebook. He just coordinated the rollout of a new Valentine’s promotion, which I thought was pretty cool.

But I also had some suggestions for him, which echo my suggestions of not getting greedy and trying to monetize things too quickly (see On Greed and Speed).
Now, The Facebook [...]

9

A few interesting links

Greed and Speed example
In my essay On Greed and Speed, I talked about not trying to make money off everything so quickly. Naval Ravikant (former founder of Epinions.com and now running a stealth startup) writes on the same idea, using Craigslist as an example.
The real story is that Craig is well on his way to [...]

14

Jack in the Box turns the tables on me

Ok, this is kind of a weird story, but why not. Yesterday, I stopped at the Jack in the Box drive-thru to get some fries. I ordered a large fries (we were taking a road trip), but as we drove away, I discovered that they had also charged me extra for small fries!!! How outrageous!!!
We [...]

41

Smart People Ask Questions

This is a story about how I learned to cut an onion.
After college, when I finally starting cooking for myself, I decided to add more to my food than just crushed red pepper. So I bought some onions and other stuff and started cutting them up and putting them in my food.
About six months [...]

How much have you saved
using Ramit's advice?





$
Only numbers please