Just Thoughts 2021 - The year of new hopes Dear Friends, What a year! I think it’s safe to say that very few people anticipated the magnitude and the impact of 2020. As the year comes to a
Business Dear coach, how can I get out of the rat race? 3 steps to get out of the rat race In a recent TV show, I watch a case study where a girl in Hong Kong is spending over 70% of her take-home pay for rent. In another case, a
Just Thoughts Are you rich? Raise your hand if you are rich. Are you rich? Raise your hand if you are rich. Every time I asked this question, rarely does anybody raise their hands. One time I asked this question in front
Just Thoughts Happy 4th of July I left one of the last colonies of the British Empire in January of 1994. As I said goodbye to my parents, my girlfriend, and highschool classmates, I embarked on
Business Dear Coach: How Should I Deal with Passive-Aggressiveness? Today, I want to discuss the behavior of “passive-aggressive” individuals. These are people who, when you ask them for an opinion, will say they have no opinion. When you ask
Business Dear coach: As a business owner, I feel stuck. Over the years, I have developed a philosophy on how to run my companies. It’s a philosophy on how to maintain profitable and sustainable growth, while also maintaining a
Business One simple business idea that helps us make millions over the years Growing rapidly and explosively is a lofty goal; it’s something that’s become a fairly prominent idea in the tech world. From the outside, it looks exciting. Whole TV
Business Can the Bible give us business advice? If you are starting a business, everyone has advice opinions and expertise to share. Some things might be helpful, some might be less than helpful. One source you might not
Growth Mindset Calling All Procrastinators - You Can Get Things Done Hi, my name is Sze and I am a procrastinator. I am the one who finishes homework late on Sunday night. I am the one who crams an entire semester
Funding I am not against funding Before we dive into this one, I want to be clear: I am not an “anti-funding guy.” I promise. If you’ve gotten that message from the first two videos,
Funding Why you may not want to take on external funding In our last talk, we discussed why - in many cases - funding isn’t needed to build a lasting, impactful business. We also discussed what everyone does need. If
Funding Do you really need funding to start? Building a business comes with lots of "rules." Sze Wong, founder and CEO of Zerion Software believes many of these "rules" are meant to be broken. In fact, many of
Business Happy New Year! Dear Friends, Welcome to the new decade! The end of a decade seems like a great place to reflect; I’d like to share some of my thoughts with you
Business Customer Service Found this email that I sent to the team almost a year ago. Want to share with everybody:I want to share 2 stories that I experienced recently. One is
Just Thoughts Happy Mother's Day My kids have all the toys that there is to have. XBox, iPad, Lego Mindstorm, you name it. We go to Disney World, Lego land and all the toy events
The Dream of Universal Data Sharing I have been talking about this idea of data sharing for over 2 years now. However, until recently, only people in my inner circles have heard about it in details.
Encryption is easy. Don’t be lazy. I was working on an internal app for our support staffs. It’s a web app that connects to iFormBuilder through the public API. To use it, one will have
Business Don’t be Dire Wolfs Saw a Nat Geo show this weekend about Dire Wolfs and it draws great comparison in the business world. The Dire Wolf as a species is bigger, strong, faster than
Business The only bad conversations are the ones you haven’t had As a business owner, I need to carry out many bad conversations. Telling customer the project is going to be late, telling vendors we won’t pay them on time,
The new economy Yesterday I read an article from Mark Mills on Forbes about the new Economy, and this morning another article on TechRepublic saying now it’s a great time to be
Just Thoughts I voted for Obama I am a catholic. I like free enterprises. I think government should be small. I think abortion is wrong. I think too much entitlement is not healthy. I think illegal
How Steve Jobs changed my life When I was 11 years old, my mom used her entire monthly salary and brought me an Apple IIe. It was a Taiwanese clone and cost about US$350.00.
The Kindle Fire will help push the iPad into Enterprises Just looking at the last 2 days you know the Kindle Fire is going to succeed. Now I’d like to throw in my 2 cents. I think the Kindle
NPR's Report on Patent Issues in the US Listening to this makes me want to cry: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/play_full.php?play=441&podcast=1
Everybody is getting sued, now what? Tonight we have a great Meetup over at MoDevDC. The topic is about Patent Infringement lawsuits and how developers can deal with them. Here is an overview of the night's
