@ilona
I help developers become individual investors 👉 You know how to code — You can learn how to invest!
My name is Ilona, and I'm a software engineer, founder, and blogger who is (besides programming) also passionate about startups, finance, and investment.
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Jan 5, 2021 · 11 min read · Benjamin Franklin once said: "Remember that time is money." The Time Value of Money (TVM) just means that money in your hand right now is worth more than the same amount of money that you will receive in the future. The idea is that money available a...
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Oct 21, 2020 · 8 min read · Budgeting is Personal Finance 101. Just think about all the times you withdrew cash from the ATM machine or passed transactions from your credit card, so you had no idea where all the money went a couple days later. One of the main reasons developers...
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Oct 17, 2020 · 5 min read · This article is part of the series “What startup equity compensation means for developers” In the previous part, we've looked into the economic value of your options—how you should value them, and how dilution works. In this post, I'm going to show y...
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Oct 15, 2020 · 6 min read · It’s not a secret that most founders get most of the equity because they quit their jobs, fundraise money, or put on their own to start a venture. In most cases, developers can get some stock options plans along with a paid salary, for example, if th...
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Sep 29, 2020 · 9 min read · Besides podcasts, blogs, vlogs, etc. reading books is still something many software developers don’t want to miss. Although I have read many good books covering software engineering and other things in tech, I’m currently studying finances and invest...
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