Showing posts with label school. Show all posts
Showing posts with label school. Show all posts

Friday, March 1, 2013

What to know when starting a business

Throughout the past couple weeks I have been blogging to all of you my viewers on the importance of financial literacy. Now with the foundation I have provided for you, we are able to take it to the next step. What do you really need to know when starting a business? Well first you need to decided what type of business you would like to run here are the following types:

Sole Proprietorship : This form of business is usually deemed the "simplest form." Having a sole proprietorship is saying that you and the buisness are one of the same entity, meaning that all your personal assets and or liabilities are all of the same with the business. There are no legal distinctions between the two. If the owner dies, so does the business with them.

General Partnership: This form of business is usually two or more parties creating a buisness in order to generate profit. You can have a silent partner of the business of which they are usually just a cash flow, or a general partner which would share the liabilities and assets with you as a whole. Like a sole proprietorship both partners in a partnership are one with the business there is no legal distinction. When one of the partners die, so does the business.

Corporation:  A corporation is different from both sole proprietorship and general partnership, because a corporation is a seperate legal entitity , it is a business made up of shareholders. Having an incorperated business would mean that your personal assets and liabilities are none of the same with your business. A corporation has unlimited life, and its own assets. If the company were to be sued , you yourself would not be personally liable but the company as a whole.

A corportaion is usually broken down into two types of stocks:

Common Stocks: Investment into a company with voting rights in relation to the board of directors
Preferred Stocks: Investment into a company with no voting rights , most have divedend rates while common stocks do not.

I would like to leave you all with the idea of how can you generate income for your business? Once you have decided what and how your going to create your business, the next step is always the cash flow, think of some ways you can generate cash flow for your business.

Monday, February 18, 2013

Education, Experience , Excess Cash

The concept I left you with prior to this blog post was the Three E's : Education, Experience , Excess Cash. I would like to further your knowledge on why these three E's are extremely essential in your journey towards becomming rich, in the exact order they are placed in.  We will start with :

Education : In life education is the key. Whether we would like to become great at something, or we would just like to further our knowledge about a subject , we do this by educating ourselves. "A Man willing to learn his whole life, will be the richest man."(Kiyosaki, 2013) Lets think of this logically, if you as a person are willing to never stop learning throughout the course of your life, do you believe that education can simply make you rich? No. It is how you use this education that will determine your success, this is where Experience  comes in.

Experience: Now that you have based yourself with all the education needed to start your journey, well you must now put it to use. The easiest way to grasp the 3 E's is to put it in terms of your educational map. For all those who have went, plan to go or who are currently in post-secondary schooling, many of your programs may offer a co-op.  Think of the three E's in terms of your program, first you need the Education so you have chosen your program, and are willing to educated yourself through it. Now that you have accomplished your first year and have furthered your knowledge it is time for your Experience this would be your co-op. Your school has set you up for success by using the three E's whether they knew it or not. Finally, once your co-op is done, your schooling is up, you've gotten all the Education and Experience you need, you have now set yourself up for the process of creating Excess Cash.

Excess Cash : Now we look at excess cash in the view of an investor, because in order to become a rich investor you need to have your assets pay off eachother, while your income your Excess Cash is exactly what it needs to be Excess. This is the money that when it comes in you can throw down on a worth investment , one that may take some risk , so this excess cash is money that can be lost, and it wont be needed to recover, because you've already bought assests that now pay eachother off and accumulate an income, where your excess cash generates its own income on its own.

I have laid out the three basics to further someones life in becomming rich. Now it is said that there is a rule called the 90/10 . This rule states that for every 90 Citizens only 10 will become rich. Why is that? If everyone knows the basics on becomming rich, learns the three E's , lives by them, what makes someone move from that 90 to the 10 % of those who become rich? I would like to encourage some feedback, on what you believe seperates someone between the 90/10 rule.