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Educational guides to the money side of running (and owning) a business — compound growth, index funds vs stock picking, diversification when your business is your biggest asset, reading a P&L, bookkeeping, and how small online businesses are valued and bought. Education, not personalized financial advice.

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  1. A compounding growth curve pulling away from a straight linear line over a long time axis

    Investing & finance · Jun 11, 2026

    Compound interest for operators: the one formula that runs your portfolio and your business

    A plain-language walk through compound growth for people who run businesses: the mechanics, the rule of 72, why the curve feels flat for years before it bends, and how reinvested profits, content libraries, and repeat customers compound exactly the way money does.

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  2. A portfolio split into one concentrated business position and a broad diversified index holding hundreds of small positions

    Investing & finance · Jun 11, 2026

    Index funds vs stock picking when your day job is already a concentrated bet

    Why the active-versus-passive debate lands differently for business owners: what the evidence actually says about picking stocks, why an operator's edge rarely transfers to public markets, and the case for letting the boring half of your net worth stay boring.

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  3. A lumpy income stream flowing into layered buckets: cash buffer, stability layer, and long-term growth portfolio

    Investing & finance · Apr 16, 2026

    Asset allocation for the self-employed: building a portfolio around lumpy income

    Portfolio construction when income refuses to be monthly: the difference between risk tolerance and risk capacity, why the emergency fund is an asset class for operators, layered buckets that absorb lumpy cash flow, and keeping the whole structure boring enough to survive.

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  4. A steady schedule of equal monthly investments buying varying amounts of a fluctuating market, versus a timer hesitating on the sidelines

    Investing & finance · Mar 26, 2026

    Dollar-cost averaging and why timing the market keeps failing ordinary investors

    An educational walkthrough of dollar-cost averaging: how fixed contributions automatically buy more when prices fall, what the evidence says about timing attempts, the behavioral failure DCA is actually designed to prevent, and where the technique genuinely does not apply.

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