This 19-Year-Old Developer Is So Successful, He Turned Down Apple

Last week, 19-year-old John Meyer dropped out of a prestigious university computer science program to work full-time on his tech startup, Fresco News.

His parents weren’t happy at first. He was attending NYU where his mom is a professor, he told Business Insider.

But they eventually came around to support him, because they had to admit: Meyer is already a successful independent computer programmer. He’s been writing apps since his freshman year in high school, 2008, after teaching himself the programming language Objective C.

And he’s been making money at it since his sophomore year of high school, he says.

“Money-wise, I’ve been pretty fortunate. I’ve been able to support myself since just a year after I got started,” he said.

 

Finance And Economics Comparison

Economics and finance are both business degrees. The difference is 5 or 6 classes taken at the end of college.

Here is a brief comparison…

Management	Profession economists are hired as consultants by private and public sector.	Finance is managed by individuals in families or by banks or other institutions.
Related Courses	Philosophy of Economics, Laws and Economics, Political Economics.	Accountancy, Chartered Financial Analyst and other
Definition	Economics is a social science that studies the management of goods and services, including the production and consumption and the factors affecting them.	Finance is the science of managing funds keeping in mind the time, cash at hand and the risk involved.
Branches	Branches of economics include macro and micro economics.	Branches of finance include personal finance, corporate finance and public finance.

Although they are often taught and presented as very separate disciplines, economics and finance are interrelated and inform and influence each other. Investors care about these studies because they also influence the markets to a great degree. Here we take a look at finance and economics, what they can teach investors and how they differ.

 

3 awesome tips for college going kids

When over 500 recent graduates were surveyed by Accounting Principals, they reported 3 big financial regrets about their college career (read the full report):

• They wish they had more actively pursued scholarships and financial aid.
• They wish they had pursued a different major that had more realistic job prospects and a higher starting salary.
• They wish they had gotten a job while in college and had started saving money earlier.

If you’re just beginning college, or even in the middle of it, you have the advantage of taking steps to address these potential future regrets now, instead of lamenting what you wish you had known as a frosh as you pull away from campus for the last time. Here’s how.

The 3 Biggest Financial Regrets of College Graduates and How to Avoid Them

 

The Last Mughul

 

older lecture, a classic one

 

 

Rich ‘Dad,’ bankrupt Dad

“Robert and [wife] Kim are not paying out of personal assets. We have a few million dollars in this company, but not 16 or 20. I can’t do anything about a $20 million judgment . . . We got hit for what we think is a completely outlandish figure.”

The bankruptcy does not mean that Kiyosaki has gone personally bankrupt. On the contrary, he only made a business move to protect his personal and business assets outside Rich Global LLC. Companies file for bankruptcy when their liabilities are in excess of net realizable value of assets. Kiyosaki, in a business move to protect himself from the full impact of the judgment, has simply moved from doing business under the name of Rich Global LLC to doing business under the name of another company that he owns, Rich Dad Co.

Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/334777#ixzz2IcFjsGRt

 

First Urdu Dictionary on Kindle

Urdu is a thriving language practised by 500 million people around the world. And if you include the similar spoken Hindi dialect, you can add another Billion to this total.

Apart from the vast majority of its native speakers in South Asia, there are millions of Urdu Speaking communities in Europe, North America and Australia.

Urdu is a very romantic, sweet language, some of the most wonderful romantic poetry is written in Urdu.

Based on its romantic poetry, there are special types of songs called ghazals, you will be able to enjoy the ghazals for relaxation.

Your friends or colleagues will respect the fact that you make an effort to speak to them in their language.

You will enjoy the Bollywood movies even more.

First Urdu Dictionary on Kindle

 

6 Ways To Give Family And Friends Financial Aid

The simplest way to subsidize others is by using the annual exclusion, which allows you to give $13,000 in cash or other assets each year to each of as many individuals as you want. Spouses can combine their annual exclusions to give $26,000 to any person tax-free. For example, a married couple with a child who is married and has two children could make a joint cash gift of $26,000 to the adult child, the child’s spouse and each grandchild – four people – providing the family with $104,000 a year.

via 6 Ways To Give Family And Friends Financial Aid – Forbes.

 

Refurbished MacBook Pro 2.3GHz dual-core Intel i5 – Apple Store (U.S.)

Apple is the way to go if you are thinking about Graphics Design.

Came across this interesting deal at Apple Store.

 

Originally released February 2011

13.3-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit glossy widescreen display, 1280-by-800 resolution

4GB (2 x 2GB) of 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM

320GB Serial ATA @ 5400 rpm

8x double-layer SuperDrive (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)

Intel HD Graphics 3000 with 384MB of DDR3 SDRAM

via Refurbished MacBook Pro 2.3GHz dual-core Intel i5 – Apple Store (U.S.).

 

Five Expenses That Will Consume 50 Percent Of Your Lifetime Earnings – Forbes

In these recessionary times, financial tips are flowing fast and furious about how to save money and stick to a budget. Facing a sea of information many people are asking, “Where do I start?”   For most of us, five areas of spending will consume over 50% of the money we earn during our lifetime, so that’s the best place to begin.

via Five Expenses That Will Consume 50 Percent Of Your Lifetime Earnings – Forbes.

 

The Once and Future Way to Run – NYTimes.com

Earlier this year, I may have found it. I was leafing through the back of an out-of-print book, a collection of runners’ biographies called “The Five Kings of Distance,” when I came across a three-page essay from 1908 titled “W. G. George’s Own Account From the 100-Up Exercise.” According to legend, this single drill turned a 16-year-old with almost no running experience into the foremost racer of his day.

I read George’s words: “By its constant practice and regular use alone, I have myself established many records on the running path and won more amateur track-championships than any other individual.” And it was safe, George said: the 100-Up is “incapable of harm when practiced discreetly.”

via The Once and Future Way to Run – NYTimes.com.