I want a tool where I can quickly look at, show, and share cash flows, graphically. I want to be able to manipulate them, create annuities, both growing, shrinking, positive and negative, show better than expected, worse than expected, add risk and possibility of outliers events, etc. etc. I think if North Americans better understood cash flows and more specifically, the present value of money - they could be all more well off. That’s the only trick to getting rich. Folks, a dollar today IS NOT the same as a dollar tomorrow.
I want to be able to quickly draw up and down arrows for projects, ideas, opportunities, investments, budgeting, etc.
I’m going to add this to the long list of things I want to program for myself. Maybe I’ll make a website out of it. Maybe I’ll create a website to help entrepreneurs pitch ideas. Maybe families could use it, or investors could network and share experiences as well as invest in each others projects. Maybe discount brokerage firms pick this up to help clients manage more than just their security holdings.
Maybe nothing will come of this idea, and it will end here and now - then again, maybe it won’t.
April 23rd, 2008 at 2:29 pm
“Maybe I’ll create a website to help entrepreneurs pitch ideas. Maybe families could use it, or investors could network and share experiences as well as invest in each others projects.”
Prosper.com does loans up to 25,000. Why not a site that lets entrepreneurs pitch for up to $250,000? You could really mix it up and get wild with the debt and equity structures.
Like social entrepreneurship (Acumen Fund, Endeavor, TechnoServe) blended with p2p lending.
Regulations probably prohibit such mind-bending innovation.
April 25th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
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