Financial Reflections

Personal Finance for those stuck in the middle.

Archive for April, 2006

What’s Your Burn Rate?

By coglethorpe • Apr 10th, 2006 • Category: Net Worth

The concept of a burn rate is pretty important for companies just staring out. It refers to the rate that a young company is “burning” through the cash that venture capitalists or other investors have put up. And sometimes it’s pretty large. One startup I worked for burned cash at the rate [...]



Smart Money Moves

By coglethorpe • Apr 7th, 2006 • Category: Net Worth

Yesterday, I posted about my money mistakes.  Well, I don’t want to be all negative, so here’s my list of financial hits…



Money Mistakes

By coglethorpe • Apr 6th, 2006 • Category: Net Worth

Writing this blog has given me the chance to reflect on my previous financial follies - hence the name.  I’m not doing that to extend the misery, but rather to identify and correct the problems I’ve had so I can fix them in the future.  Here’s what I came up with:



Tax Questions and Answers

By coglethorpe • Apr 4th, 2006 • Category: taxes

I’ve offered up a few posts on taxes so far, ranging from filing, spending my refund, my plans to not get a refund next year and my thoughts on refund anticipation loans.
But today at 2:00 Eastern Time, someone from H&R Block will be answering tax questions for the Washington Post.  Get in a question if [...]



Why I Write about Outsourcing

By coglethorpe • Apr 1st, 2006 • Category: Jobs

I’ve posted about outsourcing - the process of sending jobs in the US overseas - in one form or another in the last week or two.   That’s not only a narrow topic, but it’s also considered a political topic by some.  I will agree that the battles over this are fought in state and federal [...]