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FIRE-side chat: contracting killer

Meet an entrepreneur who has retired with millions!

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Pros and cons of being wealthy

If you’re an oligarch, a millionaire rockstar, a property tycoon or you just struck oil off the coast of Brazil – brother, I feel your pain.

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There are huge immediate financial rewards from getting out of debt, but the mental pay-off may be even greater.

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Don’t feel pressured into starting a business as the only route to wealth. Statistically it’s more likely to be a route to grey hair and debt.

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How to be a capitalist

Capitalism isn’t in crisis — it’s still in the ascendency. Learn how to make money work for you to thrive in this modern reality.

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The lure of easy money may be strong, but it’s also a mirage. If you want to make a real difference to your life and wealth, try making a difference in the world…

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Do you want to get rich through day trading? Does the old 9-5 seem like hard work? Yep, to you and everyone else.

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Types of entrepreneurs

There are many different types of entrepreneur, which is good news if you plan to make your fortune and you can’t stand Richard Branson.

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Entrepreneur characteristics

There’s no one checklist that you need to tick through to become an entrepreneur. Read widely and discover kindred spirits who did it YOUR way.

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A special guest star writer, The Money Blogger, tells us what she learned from starting a business on eBay and Amazon without really meaning to.

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Should you regret not making and marketing the gizmo you invented? Plus the rest of the week’s best links.

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The 10% tax rate paid by entrepreneurs applies to the first £2 million of business assets sold.

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£1 million in the hand is easily worth £237 million in the bush, especially when the bush is as thorny as this one.

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If you think the new Apple iPad is the biggest opportunity in computing since the Mac or PC, move fast to make money.

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What does it really take to developer and release an iPhone app for profit? I don’t know, so I asked a man who does.

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Developing iPhone apps seems a potentially low risk way to make decent money. But what’s the reality behind the hype?

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I was talking to a friend last night about what I’m currently doing with my life, and discussing whether either of us fancied starting a new business in the teeth of the recession. He told me – not for the first time – that he was getting itchy feet, and that he felt in a [...]

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(Image: WRI) Like the vast majority of the 100 million bloggers in the world, I earn less than a dollar a day from my own blogs. That’s an average figure. Some days I earn more, many less. But it currently averages out to about a dollar a day. Blogging for money is a terrible idea. [...]

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Recent immigrants can inspire us to earn more money, to start new businesses, or even just to greet the day with a smile. Seriously.

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