Yakezie Carnival

Yakezie Carnival – the Facebook IPO Edition

May 6, 2012
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Yakezie Carnival – the Facebook IPO Edition

Welcome to the Facebook IPO edition of Yakezie Carnival. If a biggest IPO of the history is just a few days away how does the financial blogging community sit silent? Let’s discuss the IPO briefly. In order to surpass Industrial and Commercial bank of China, Facebook needs to sell only 500 million share at $45 per share to become the biggest IPO of the history. I strongly feel this should be a cake walk. Now let’s come to the pure mathematics, as per S -1 filing, Facebook receives 850 million monthly visitors and the consensus is towards a valuation of $100 billion for the company. Thus, roughly each visitor is valued at $118. That means with almost 20,000 monthly visitors I can dream of becoming a millionaire post OCAAT IPO! All right, jokes apart, if you’re like me, you’ll never get a chance to participate in the IPO. You’ll have to buy from open market following listing of Facebook (FB – symbol). Let’s see what happened to the last mega social media IPO of LinkedIn. LNKD opened at $83 on NYSE, up 84% from its IPO price of $45. The stock quickly spiked to $90 and climbed as high as $122.70 before closing at $94.25,

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Yakezie Carnival, Just Another Day Edition

November 6, 2011
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Yakezie Carnival, Just Another Day Edition

While trying to name this carnival, I searched on Wikipedia with 6th November but, couldn’t find any worth mentioning incident. Finally I have decided to name it ‘just another day’ and talk about Yakezie group. About pictures, I searched through my personal album and picked three pics from our Cruise trip to Bahamas on Carnival Cruise lines. I have hosted Yakezie carnivals twice previously and noticed that they get visits from Yakezies and non-Yakezies alike. This is the best stage to talk about some of the benefits of Yakezie group. If you are a blogger and write about personal finance or lifestyle, Yakezie is the place you want to be. The biggest benefit I have so far, is the zeal and interest to continue blogging. Leaving apart the technical blog related help, knowing other bloggers’ little success stories motivate you like anything. Knowledge grows by sharing, in Yakezie our slogan is to ‘Selflessly helping others‘. You have a problem, mention it on forum and 20 other bloggers would jump in to help you. Yakezie has 90 members as of date and another 90 (almost) as challengers waiting to become member, including us. If appraised for its future potential, the value of yakezie

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One Cent Sunday Round Up and Blog Insights

September 25, 2011
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One Cent Sunday Round Up and Blog Insights

Its Sunday and its time to unplug and get in to a different blogging mode, when I become too personal, and, give insight in to blogs and the bloggers. I received a mail asking why OCAAT doesn’t display any advertising banner. Well, thank you for your mail, I am honored that you went beyond just commenting and asked this question via email. One Cent At A Time doesn’t display ad, for the lack of better words, advertisers don’t yet consider us worth of investment. Next question I ask myself, do I consider my blog worth reading? I couldn’t convince myself. I do think readers won’t lament missing out on one of my posts. There’s just too many of finance blogs. No one will miss One Cent at a Time if I stop writing tomorrow. But on contrary to my anticipation, last Tuesday, 09/20/2011, OCAAT had its largest number of visitors and page views on a single day. In last one month I have set this record more than 4 times, a sure sign that number of followers are on the rise. Should I be jumping with joy now? Perhaps No, because any seasoned blogger shall tell you that this is

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Yakezie Carnival, The Hurricane Season Edition

August 28, 2011
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Yakezie Carnival, The Hurricane Season Edition

What a week this has been! Steve and Irene were the two most popular names in the American news media. In world media, perhaps it’s Gaddafi who was in the limelight. While Steve made Apple ‘job’ less, Irene made people homeless. I don’t have AAPL in my portfolio, so I don’t care if it’s Steve or someone else at the helm, but when a category 4 hurricane comes rushing, I panic! Living in south Florida is like living on the fault line – under constant threat of the biggest weather forces coming toward you and taking your every belonging away. If you can save your life, you are fortunate. Irene was originally directed toward us, only to change direction towards the most populated areas of the United States. This picture is of hurricane Wilma, which hit us in 2005 (picture obtained through creative commons license), rendering us without power and water for days. My car was severely damaged by flowing roof tiles. The trees surrounding my home were on the ground and the only standing palm trees didn’t have any leaves. Fortunately we were prepared with packets of nuts, cracker bars, cold sandwiches, flashlights, candles, a bathtub full of water,

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Yakezie Carnival – Best Of Yakezie This Week

July 24, 2011
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Yakezie Carnival – Best Of Yakezie This Week

Just one year ago on the same day there were 80,000 people around the world simultaneously recorded their daily lives for a YouTube documentary Life In A Day. One year later I sat down to document a week of blogging from the best blog network on net – Yakezie, which has more than 400 blogs on its roll, by far surpassing the nearest rivals. And as I heard from its founder Financial Samurai, there is an extensive plan to expand and improve the network further. Yakezie is a strange world of symbiosis between rivals and competitors. Where writers help each other getting on their feet and help them start running, cutting the chase, let me start with the agenda.   Welcome to this week’s carnival which I am so proud to host.   Money Reasons :  Getting Rich On An Average Income - It’s hard for an average income person to become rich.  Here are strategies that I am using or wish that I could use to quicken the process or even make it possible to become rich on an average income. Financial Success for Young Adults : How Much Do We Save to Buy a House - When you are getting ready to

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3rd Yakezie Challenger Round Up

July 13, 2011
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The round-up is in its 3rd week now, and already it has become one of the biggest Yakezie round ups, excluding the carnivals. BTW, if you want to know all about carnivals, there is a full-page of wealth awaiting for your mouse (PC) or finger (smart phone) click,  Broke professional has that page.  Many thanks to her for the tedious job she did to bring this page up. This week the number of blogs participating in this round-up is 25, an awesome increase from first week’s 7 blogs. With new bloggers signing up every day, we will see further increase in coming weeks. If this continues, one fine day I can claim this round-up as the web’s biggest weekly blog round-up Tip: One money saving tip for home business owners, consider online fax for your business. What are challenging Yakezies are saying over the past week? Untemplater (Alexa 113K) discusses the relationship of manager and subordinate. She shares her view of the performance evaluation process. Most of us, the bloggers, are amateurs and have day job to keep, it is important that we cover the issues with work with same importance as issues related to saving money. Amazing Crystal @

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2nd Weekly Yakezie Challenger Round Up

July 6, 2011
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It has been 7 days since I started publishing Yakezie round ups. Last week 7 blogs appeared in the round-up. So much have been changed since then and the round-up was so much publicized that this week there are 20 blogs being covered here. Many thanks to the authors for the show of hands or I noticing their hands in the crowd, here is your best creation over the last week that I read from your RSS feed in Google reader. Order is random, as it appear on my reader. The blogging machine Crystal, with her latest challenger site How I make money Blogging (Alexa 925K) is day by becoming a money machine too. She explains how she ended up as a staff writer for other blogs. John at Stock Market basics (Alexa 1.8M) recently joined Yakezie, and explains the basics of Alexa ranking system and Google authority. I am also amazed to learn that eHow.com is at Alexa rank 1! Sydney at Untemplater (Alexa 121K) deviates from the theme of PF and started very interesting topic of relationship and friends, do read and get some psychological insights. 365 days on a budget (Alexa 719K) Presents his own list of splurge worthy

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The Much Awaited 1st Weekly Yakezie Challenger Round Up

June 28, 2011
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I have touted this on Yakezie forum too much lately, it was about starting a weekly Yakezie round-up with posts from challenger blogs, excluding existing Yakezie member blogs. I waited for challengers to sign up, but except a few, no one seemed interested. Without wasting much time, and without waiting for challengers to sign up (well except for a few, who did sign up),  I went to various blogs and gathered the information. And this work is a result of that effort. On July 24th, I am going to host Yakezie Carnival on my blog, this can very well be my dress rehearsal, before venturing in to that big stage. Wish me luck readers.. There have been a lot of things going on in various Yakezie challenger sites. t’s full of action, blogs are racing neck and neck to break in to the 200K Alexa ranking challenge. There are plenty of gems out there. It brings a great joy and fun to be able to bring to you the hidden gems from Yakezie challenger world. There is no ranking I gave to the posts, they are placed in random order, mostly posts published within last 7 days, has been selected for

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