HowStuffWorks wrote a great article on how to make a million dollars. It’s a collection of posts that look at what it really takes to make the mill, or create financial freedom for yourself.
Most interesting, for me, was the reference to a Business.com article called Upping the Odds of Startup Success. Here they debunk the ‘myth’ that 9 out of 10 businesses fail in the US; which is a stat that is widely quoted and possibly counts for many ventures never being pursued.
Data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Business Tracking Series show about 65 percent of new businesses still operating after four years. And a recent study estimates that only 10 percent of the nation’s 5.5 million small businesses (not counting solo operators) close each year.
Couple that with HowStuffWorks’ simple run down of investing and pursuing goals and you’ll start thinking to yourself: Why aren’t I doing this?
How To Make A Million Dollars – [HowStuffWorks]
Upping the Odds of Startup Success – [Business.com]
Will you be posting a follow up when you get a million dollars?
You will be the first to know.
This article makes me think of Million Dollar Wiki
Not a surprise – how stuff works owner and founder made millions on this project.
My idea of making a million dollars is slightly different from what I have seen until now. Correct me if I am wrong, but I haven’t seen a blog that would be worth 1.000.000 bucks. So here is my aim. There is a pretty nice service available out there to evaluate the possible price of domain name – http://www.dnscoop.com; My target is to have the value of my web blog which is by the way at http://www.how-to-make-million-dollars.com increased till 1.000.000 $ until 2008-07-07; I started the blog on 2007-07-07 – hence, that gives me the whole year of article writing, promoting… you name it… to have the value of the domain name be exactly 1.000.000$ (or more)
This is a relieving thing to heir. I heard these same statistics about how 9 out of 10 businesses start-ups survive after so many years, myself.
I read the two links you recommended that we read. I have done a lot of research on saving money and starting up businesses, myself. Thank you for the additional information.
Also, I like the million dollar check you have on your post up above. I am hoping for one, myself.
The face, properly known as the obverse, has the profile of this beloved president, bearing a mintmark under his neck of an “S” if it’s minted in San Francisco or a “D” if it’s minted in Denver. You won’t find any mintmarks on Eisenhower dollars struck in Philadelphia. Coins minted in 1971 have an “FG” on them instead, for the coin’s designer, Frank Gasparro. The reverse, or the tail, changed dependant upon the occasion at that time. Apollo 11′s insignia decorated the reverse of the first edition coin, with an eagle holding an olive branch resting over the surface of the moon. The design was changed for the bicentennial, and although the moon was still present, it had the image belonging to the Liberty Bell in front of it. Minted from 1971 – 1979, these coins were known for being the very first without any precious metals but weren’t as widely circulated . Both these 1971 coins and the 1976 Bicentennial coins became mementos of the special years.