High Tech Adventures

Wai Mun Fong and Benedict Koh

Chapter 38 in Managing Your Personal Finance:From Start of Career to Retirement and More, 2020, pp 243-248 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: Dear David,Remember Gary? The student whom I invited over to our house for Christmas? Well, Gary has graduated and he thinks he’s on to something big. Bespectacled and of small build, most people would have passed off Gary as another bookish nerd on campus. A nerd he certainly is, but it’s of a different sort. Gary lives and breathes the Internet. He calls himself a technopreneur and has built an ecommerce business to prove it. “You should go and check out our website and the stuff we have to offer,” Gary urged me one day. I did, and I must say that the idea of renting customised business software over the Web is a pretty neat one. “We’re thinking of going IPO real soon, and if we make it big time, I’m gonna order myself a Mercedes SLK right away,” he said…

Keywords: Personal Finance; Investment; Managing Money; Retirement planning; College planning; Borrowing; Buying Bonds; Investing in Real Estate; Estate Planning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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