Archive for January, 2011

• How to Use Shock and Awe to Create a Viral Video
  Posted by James Altucher on January 31st, 2011 at 10:26 pm, Comments: 0

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  TweetFirst there was Paris Hilton. Then Kim Kardashian. Then…Little Superstar, with 16mm views – the most popular viral video to come out of India. Today [...]

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• 8 Alternatives to College
  Posted by James Altucher on January 30th, 2011 at 8:57 pm, Comments: 0

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  TweetWhen I was 19 I won some money in a chess tournament. So instead of using that money for my college tuition I decided to [...]

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• 10 More Reasons Why Parents Should Not Send Their Kids to College
  Posted by James Altucher on January 30th, 2011 at 8:56 pm, Comments: 0

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  TweetOK, enough is enough. In 2006 I wrote an article for The Financial Times on why I won’t send my kids to college. I’ve written, [...]

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• Is Satan a Good Investor
  Posted by James Altucher on January 28th, 2011 at 6:59 pm, Comments: 0

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  TweetFirst night of sleepaway camp I woke up around 4 in the morning and the bed was completely soaked. I had wet the bed. I [...]

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• How Being a Sore Loser can make you Rich (or crazy)
  Posted by James Altucher on January 27th, 2011 at 7:24 pm, Comments: 0

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  TweetI threw all the pieces on the floor. I’m almost embarassed to tell you this. When someone says to you, “I was playing a game [...]

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• 21 Unusual Ways my Wife Survived Her Financial Crisis
  Posted by James Altucher on January 26th, 2011 at 8:54 pm, Comments: 0

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  Tweet[This is a guest post Claudia wrote on how she survived the financial crisis. I think there's a common thread among "survivors" of a deep [...]

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• I’m Guilty of Torturing Women
  Posted by James Altucher on January 25th, 2011 at 9:16 pm, Comments: 0

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  TweetI used to torture her on almost a daily basis. It was almost to the point where I can’t forgive myself. I remember one sorry [...]

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• How to get 85,000,000 pageviews even if you are ugly
  Posted by James Altucher on January 24th, 2011 at 10:18 pm, Comments: 0

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  TweetIn 7th grade, when we were learning how to square dance, I heard one girl say to another girl whose turn it was to dance [...]

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• I’m Completely Humiliated by Yoga
  Posted by James Altucher on January 23rd, 2011 at 6:57 pm, Comments: 0

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  TweetI woke up yesterday to the sounds of a woman throwing up for fifteen straight minutes. It might’ve been the woman who lives next door. [...]

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• Thoughts on Turning 43 Today
  Posted by James Altucher on January 22nd, 2011 at 6:18 pm, Comments: 0

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  TweetWhen I turned 40 I was in a state of panic. I had been reading “the Summer of 49” by David Halberstam about the 1949 [...]

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