My guests on the podcast this week are Alex Nerney and Noah Riggs. Both are inspiring Internet entrepreneurs I met at FinCon this past week.

There’ll always be a place on this podcast for sharp young guys full of energy & ambition. When I met these two men at the Hilton Washington DC, I knew they’d bring a lot of value to a short discussion.

We pack a lot into our half-hour chat, including:

• The best part of FinCon

• Alex & Noah’s working relationship

• Our nation buried in student-loan debt

• ROI of Internet courses

• Being featured in Forbes, Inc. Magazine & Entrepreneur

• Alex’s 6-figure blog

• ROI of college tuition

• Noah’s plans to finish school

• Work to learn, you will earn later

• Becoming an attractive person

• How to find good mentors

• Being the hardest worker in the room

• How to ask for referral

• How to view investment returns

• The decision to start a blog

• Noah took Alex’s Pro Blogger course

• Alex shares how he met his business partner (hint: Tinder)

• Their favorite personal development book

• Happiness in America vs. other places

• Measuring success in the East vs. West

• What they would do with a new $1,000,000

• How we got our investing start

• Investing in Pokemon & Basketball cards

• Holding stocks for the long-term

• Stocks that Noah & I own in common

• McDonald’s & Microsoft as long-term holds

• Investing in the S&P 500

• Traveling to Bali (Indonesia)