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☆ An army veteran made $1.8 million in a year self-publishing on Amazon. Here's how he turned his hobby into a career in less than 5 years.
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-26 | by ( Minda Zetlin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

But then a member of the Facebook group LitRPG Books posted a review to the group and tagged Krout. Group members took an interest in the book, and he made $5,000 in book sales in the month after it was published. So those earnings from the book sales got his full attention. By the end of 2017, he'd made more than $82,000 on Amazon book sales alone, plus more income from audio-book sales and non-Amazon revenue streams such as Patreon. AdvertisementTo keep that interaction going over Facebook, Krout joined other Facebook groups beyond the LitRPG group.

Persons: —, Dakota Krout, Krout, Brandon Sanderson, Mark Dawson's, Michael E, Gerber, Dragon Con, he'd, Danielle, I'm, Dakota, John Grisham, They've, superfans, you've Organizations: Service, Army, Business, Facebook, Harvard, Dragon, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mountaindale Press, Dakota, Moutaindale Locations: Kansas

☆ How Warren Buffett's son spent the $90,000 of Berkshire stock he got at 19—worth $300 million now: 'I don't regret it'
▼ + stars: | 2020-05-07 | by ( Minda Zetlin | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Peter worked out a budget and moved to San Francisco, where he "lived very frugally" in a small studio apartment. (According to CNBC's calculations, $90,000 of Berkshire Hathaway stock in 1977 would be worth more than $300 million as of Jan. 5, 2023, for a return of over 300,000%.) "But I didn't make that choice and I don't regret it for a second," Peter writes. "I used my nest egg to buy something infinitely more valuable than money: I used it to buy time." That distinction is easy to miss in Warren's case, because the work he loves most — investing — is all about money.

☆ These valuable pennies are worth up to $200,000—and they might be in your pocket
▼ + stars: | 2019-07-18 | by ( Minda Zetlin | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Most pennies are worth 1 cent, but to coin collectors, some are worth more than their weight in gold. While most pennies are only worth a few bucks, highly coveted ones might be sitting in your pocket or stuck somewhere in your couch cushions. 1943 Bronze Lincoln(Image: Heritage Auctions, HA.com)Only a handful of these bronze pennies have been discovered, including the one found by Lutes. "The most valuable Lincoln cent sold privately in 2010 for $1.7 million," said Stone. The doubling on the 1969-S Doubled Die Obverse is especially prominent in the words "LIBERTY" and "IN GOD WE TRUST," he said.

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