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My compadre & former Bix.com founder/CEO Mike Speiser recently left Yahoo to join Sutter Hill Ventures. Mike just started a new blog called Laserlike, and he's out of the gate STRONG with a post on Project Sage: Spreadsheets 2.0, open source macros, and a touch of prediction markets. Good stuff.

photo from matsgull Your wedding is in a month’s time and you are short of US$15,000 for some immediate payments. What can you do? You can call off your wedding…(just joking) You can borrow from your family members or swipe your credit card dry or rob the bank.

10 Tips to Raising a Financially Savvy Child Dicover how you can prepare your child for the financial challenges of the 21st century. Would you of liked to of leared about money when you were younger? Give your child that advantage by reading this article now.

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Perhaps expensive gas will help solve the  obesity epidemic.   Seriously, people will probably be  less likely to drive to a neighbor’s  home  or supermarket  if they will have to spend $7 a gallon on gas.  The result will be more walking and less driving.

As you start to begin your day, you think of all the things that you have to do. If you’re wise, you would’ve made your to-do list yesterday or last week. The clock is ticking and you have no time to lose. In business time is very precious and important. The time that you use should be productive and organized time.

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Orascom Telecom sets up a new unit to expand across Asia and Africa Orascom Telecom is reportedly eyeing new investments in Africa and Asia. Apparently, the biggest mobile phone operator in the Middle East and North Africa has set up a new unit called Telecel Globe to evaluate investment

Parents Face ‘Mounting Costs On Nurseries’ May 18th, 2008 by Ken Golden New mums and dads are spending thousands of pounds on their child's nursery, a new set of figures reveal.According to a study carried out by Halifax Home Insurance, parents spent an average of 2,628 pounds- a UK total of 1.8 billion pounds - on making their newborn's room perfect.

Image via Wikipedia The other day I heard a Feed The Pig public service announcement (”PSA”) on how Americans are generally spending more than they’re making. In case you’re wondering, Feed the Pig is a component of the 360 Degrees of Financial Literacy campaign by the Ad Counsel and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.