After seven years of working in the corporate world, one New York City-based twenty-something had a nest egg big enough to retire early. She goes by the pen name J.P. Livingston on her blog The Money Habit, where she discusses how she had financial independence on the mind from an early age. When she was only 12, she picked up a copy of the personal finance classic “Rich Dad, Poor Dad,” which sparked her interest in saving and investing. When she realized she could save big by finishing college in three years, she jumped on the opportunity. Graduating a year early “really helped me financially,” she said “It saved me a year of tuition and gave me a year’s worth of extra income, and between the two things, that’s a $150,000 net worth swing.” After graduating, Livingston took a job at an investment firm, where the starting pay was $60,000, plus an end-of-year bonus that was almost the same amount. Total: just over $100,000. She received several raises in the years following, ...

CROWDYVEST is the sister company of Farmcrowdy, Nigeria's first digital agriculture platform that empowers rural farmers & provides investment opportunities for anyone to invest directly in the agriculture sector from the comfort of your home. They launched in 2016, with the Vice President Prof. yemi Osinbanjo paying a personal visit to the company. Crowdyvest is basically a crowdfunding platform. Farmcrowdy philosophy is "farming without a farm." Money is pooled from investors to help fund a farm project, while farmers are enabled to farm and increase productivity, investors get to share from the profit as ROI. All farms are insured by Leadway insurance so you 100% guaranteed of your principal & ROI irrespective of any unfortunate incident that may occur in a farm you sponsor. This is a way better option than bank savings especially if you wish to lock your money somewhere for a while and get paid for it. This also helps improve food productivity and security in...