Posts for the 'Finance & Investment' Category

Dec 22 2009
17

Emas: Satu Permulaan

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Sudah lama saya mencari-cari investment yang sesuai dengan diri saya. Walaupun macam2 pilihan ada di luar sana, namun tidak banyak yg saya minat dan yakin. Namun kini, saya sudah berjumpa dengan yang berkenan di hati. Antara portfolio yang saya berminat untuk kembangkan ialah [...]

Nov 18 2009
13

Tipah Tertipu…

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Jun 12 2009
7

Brand My Donkey

Share“Brand” is the catchword of this decade. In the 1990s, if I remember well, brands are just logos that companies slap on their products. Now, the idea of “brand” is permeating everywhere, like a bean fart. Political parties talk about “rebranding” to attract voters. Old companies do “rebranding” for the “new market” (you changed the [...]

Jun 11 2009
8

geraN = geraM

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Kenapa pula geraN = geraM? Hehe…baiklah. Saya akan terangkan.
Sebenarnya, ramai di kalangan kita yang sangat berminat untuk menjadi usahawan. Namun, kebiasaannya, alasan utama yang menjadi penghalang bagi mereka ialah kekurangan modal permulaan. Ditambah lagi dengan mentaliti yang inginkan sekuriti dalam pendapatan berbanding mendapat bayaran setimpal dengan hasil kerja, maka ramai yang terus kekal menjadi [...]

ShareWhich one is preferable, to be street smart or book smart?
I am a bookish person, with a decent education background, so I admit this question is a no-brainer for me. There are many reasons why being book smart is way more preferable for survival than simply being “street smart”. In business, it is more so. [...]

Jun 03 2009
166

Beli Rumah Lelong

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Minggu lepas saya berjaya menang rumah lelong.
Unit tu sebuah unit kondominium 3 bilik di Puchong. Market price dalam RM160k max. Saya dapat harga RM85k. Kondo tu dah siap dibina lama dah. Tapi unit yang saya menang tu fresh lagi, masih suci murni, takde sape pernah dudok kat unit tu lagi.
Seperti biasa, proses lelong yg saya pergi tu [...]

ShareRunning a small business is all about making cash.
Accounts receivable is not cash. Investment in mutual fund is not cash. Letter of intent is not cash. Promise from your high school friend to talk to his rich uncle to invest in your new venture is not cash.
What is cash? Cash is what you can buy [...]

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Why bootstrap? You have to bootstrap if you have little amount of money to start a business. I’ll be honest with you that bootstrapping is not glamorous, it doesn’t feel nice, it’s very tough and worse, there’s a big chance to fail. You might break. You can imagine being Rambo while you’re bootstrapping. But to [...]

Apr 20 2009
10

Make Money First

ShareIf your business doesn’t make money, you fail in business.
People who just started a business often get sidetracked early on. The first thing they do is making their business looks good. They print custom envelopes, custom letterheads, custom forms, custom business cards, custom store signs, custom this and that. All of these unnecessary and a [...]

ShareHello class.
Welcome to Professor Bal’s business class. Here, our motto is “cut the crap”.
Since this is our first class, let me start first by introducing myself. I was born in the year nineteen eighty-…ah, let’s cut the crap. Let’s move on to Lesson One, shall we?
Lesson One is “What is a Business Plan?”. Before you [...]