One Life-Changing Class You Never Took: Alexa von Tobel at TEDxWallStreet

Alexa von Tobel is the founder and CEO of LearnVest.com which she has been developing and growing since 2006. LearnVest is the leading personal finance and lifestyle website that brings financial literacy to women. Since launching LearnVest, Alexa has been widely quoted as a personal finance expert and entrepreneur in top tier business and consumer publications including: New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, New York Post, BusinessWeek, Shape, Fast Company, Marie Claire, ForbesWoman, InStyle, People StyleWatch, Time Out New York, The Huffington Post, among many others. Alexa has been included on Vanity Fair's 2011 Next Establishment list, featured on Business Insider's 2010 and 2011 Silicon Alley 100 lists, named "One of the Coolest Young Entrepreneurs" in Inc. Magazine's 30 Under 30 feature, titled a "Woman to Watch" by Forbes and included on the publication's 30 Under 30 list, highlighted on BusinessWeek's annual list of "Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs," among others. LearnVest has been named one of "25 Women-Run Startups to Watch" by Fast Company, included on Forbes' list of the "Top 100 Websites for Women" for the second year in a row, featured on Business Insider's Digital 100 list and included on Time Magazine's annual list of "50 Best Websites."

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[NonsenseUnrelated]

Live within your means..

[Rob Williams]

Learn to use a spreadsheet and keep your personal overhead as low as you can and you will come out ahead, it's that simple. As for credit, I am 52 and have never once applied for credit. I am what the credit companies call a ghost. It has its ups and downs.

[Inigo Lao]

It's taught here in Canada

[Igor Sivevski]

America is tie biggest scam in history.I would better live in Uganda

[frogsoda]

I was 22, I made $32,000. No college. no debt. That was over 25 years ago. And now you are LUCKY to get a 35 a yr job w/ 25G in college debt? You guys are being sold a bill of goods. College doesn't mean shit anymore. It turns you into a higher class of sheep.

The fact that these basic things that Alexa is talking about here are NOT taught in school should be a clue that your schooling has failed you. We need a new education system. Get rid of the liberals that are running things into the dirt.

[sicknote flapsandwich]

voice is doing my nutt in!

[Cool4on]

i took economics, does that count?

[elbowstrike]

This is bullshit. For several years after graduating a good 70-80% of my income had to go to essentials, and I worked 12 hour days, 1 day off a week, and rented a bedroom in a boarding house.

[stanczyk11111]

"cheap " financial advise ..i dont like this "marketing"...

but ..anybody surrpriced ? .... come on: banksters , politicians , 1%. and the real Owners(George Carlin) needs more money !!.. :)

[NonsenseUnrelated]

20% in taxes.