For Whom Wealth Matters
November 13, 2013 2 Comments
Evan Williams :Co-founder and largest individual individual share-holder.His 10.4% stake is now worth $2.56 billion.He added $1.07 billion when Twitter stock closed at $44.90 on NYSE on Thursday,on the day of its IPO.
Jack Dorsey:Co-founder and chairman has a 4.3% stake in Twitter that is valued at $1.05 billion.His stake gained$443 million on IPO day.
November 12, 2013 4 Comments
So get started early.Do what you can.Don’t wait for a grand idea or a great stroke of luck.You may not become a millionaire on your first try.No matter ,learn and move on.If you keep your wits about you,your millions will become billions in time.If you learn fast and leverage your know-how and contacts you’ll get there faster.FOCUS on how many steps these gentlemen had to take to get where they are.Think of their ages and the years they have been working.
November 10, 2013 Leave a comment
Did you know there were gold and silver bank notes?
Yes,they exist.I saw them at the COINEX-Mumbai.They are official legal tender of Antigua And Barbuda.
There are 30 0f these notes which form part of the collection called The Saga of Treasure Ships and Pirates.
They are:
1. Blackbeard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge
2. Bartholomew Roberts’s Royal Fortune
3. Charles Vane’s Ship Challenges HMS Buck
4. Stede Bonnet’s Sloop Royal James
5. Benito de Soto and the Black Joke
6. Captain George Lowther and the Happy Delivery
7. Sir Francis Drake and the Golden Hind
8. Captain Edward England and the Cassandra
9. Captain Thomas Cocklyn and the Bird Galley
10. Captain Kidd and the Adventure Galley Read more of this post
November 10, 2013 Leave a comment
Bought for 60 paise in the 1960s,sale price Rs 70,000 in 2013. Even accounting for inflation, that’s a super return on investment. Appropriately so, as the reason 60 paise can turn into Rs 70,000 is superheroes. A mint condition 1960s’ Indrajal comic book with a cover price of 60 paise will get you Rs 70,000 from the right buyer. Indrajal was published by Bennett Coleman & Company Ltd, which also publishes the TOI.
Old comic books like those published under titles Indrajal, Amar Chitra Katha, Tinkle and Chitra Bharti Kathamala have become highly sought-after and high priced collectors’ items. In this trend, India is following the US, where old comics have been collectors’ classics for a long time.
In 2011, Hollywood actor Nicolas Cage’s copy of Action Comics No. 1 featuring the first appearance of Superman sold for a super price of $2,161,000 in an online auction.
Bangalore-based history teacher and graphic novel collector Arun Prasad, whose old comic book fetched Rs 70,000, recently got his collection of over 15,000 comics valued. His assets in the form of graphic novels are worth over Rs 1.7 crore. Prasad is a determined collector. Recently, he took a trip to Kashmir to purchase old comic books.He possesses the entire Indrajal series in a few languages. Read more of this post
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