Tips from an #adulting fintech entrepreneur and father of two
When I was 18, I made my first investment in the stock market. My uncle had opened a brokerage account for me and smirked, “Go ahead and play the market, this will be the best present anyone can give you.” “Ha,” I thought to myself, “We are the future - we know what companies to buy. I can be quick, nimble and disciplined. It can’t be that hard.” TIP #1: Start your investing journey early Get your feet wet in the stock market. The earlier the better. It was September of 2007. I was in my first year at the University of Pennsylvania at the time. There were free newspapers all over campus, as the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal tried to attract the eyeballs of the next generation of Wall Street worker-bees. I was religiously reading the newspaper...