Comments on: Welcome new readers

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 00:58:32 +0000

Enrique-

Guy Kawasaki, also a Stanford grad, had a great post yesterday on becoming a venture capitalist. Though you might not like his answer

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 18:37:42 +0000

Wonderful site! I’m a business student (graduating this semester), and I’m loving your site. However, could you PLEASE make the load time for the front page shorter. Perhaps display less posts on the front page? I would have zero complaints if everything loaded up faster.
Thanks for the writings,

By: Enrique

Enrique — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 14:31:09 +0000

Ramit:

Since you are teaching us how to become millionaries, Could you gives us insight into venture capitalists?
How do we position ourselves on becoming rich and riding the wave of the future as green techology?
Where do we find those companies before they exploded like Google, E-bay and Microsoft did?
The axiom working hard would make you money is not true. Neither is trading work for a paycheck.
Thanks for the insights,

By: dimes

dimes — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 04:15:19 +0000

How about new readers from links on piddly sites? Like mine?

So then, are you not terribly concerned with your sex appeal?

By: John

John — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 03:56:31 +0000

I think there's a very important line in this post and I'd like to reiterate it for readers new and old: " Getting started is more important than being the smartest person in the room. Making mistakes is ok."
I'm in the burgeoning area of nanotechnology where most of the true founders of the field are still active researchers. For a while, my own fear of inadequacy kept me from pursuing some of my dreams.
But when I read that you got a book deal, it dawned on me that you write about personal finance and you don't even have a formal education in the field (MBA,etc.). What you did, though, was jump in and build your own credibility from the ground up. That realization helped me to take the plunge and begin actively working on my goals for the future (I'm currently working on my PhD, so I could easily procrastinate on future ambitions while I work on research).
I don't even read your blog for the personal finance stuff; most of it I've heard before. But I DO read it because you actively practice those lines in bold above and seeing someone else do it helps me do it, too. Maybe some of your other readers feel the same way?
Thanks for the help and keep up the good work! And to your new readers, I hope they find the inspiration to overcome inertia and pursue some of their interests as well. Maybe this blog will help.

By: Scott Young

Scott Young — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 03:08:00 +0000

You should send a few million of your billion new visitors my way, Ramit!

By: Athol Kay

Athol Kay — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:20:58 +0000

A great starting off post.

By: chip

chip — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:11:44 +0000

KevinC - a specific list i've been adding to here : http://del.icio.us/entrepreneur

By: KevinC

KevinC — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:50:43 +0000

For anyone that reads this blog, do you read any other interesting blogs like this? I haven’t done extensive searching but I know there are tons of blogs out there. This one is one of my favs, another is http://www.lifehack.org.

What are some blogs that you can’t stop reading?

By: Huey

Huey — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:24:17 +0000

Congrats Ramit!! I concur. This guy drive me insane too. lol. I don’t know how other heard about you but I found out about you through Google Reader. Just so you know. Again, many thanks.