From the monthly archives: January 2008

Just Another New Kid in Town

By On January 31, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Today was a pretty good day here in the Tongren Lu Idea Factory.

Started designing our database of transactions for the website Finished drafts of all of the fields in the other databases in the website Reviewed resumes for potential data entry interns Got the second inquiry in two days from interested investors

Maybe this [...]

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Who’s On First?

By On January 30, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Actually, my schedule is not anywhere as neat as all this in reality, and I’m not always sure that there’s a great reason why I take care of a particular task on Wednesday instead of on Monday. (Just because I wrote something down in a list doesn’t mean it’s organised).

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Pre-Spring Festival Appraisal

By On January 29, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Now with one week to go before the holiday, and only three working days left before I escape to Thailand for a beach holiday, I am happy to join with Meatloaf in saying, two out of three ain’t bad.

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Paying for My Own Education

By On January 28, 2008 · Leave a Comment

To continue on the club theme, I would like to let you all know of another business group that I’ve played a meaningful role in for many years. Just today I was re-elected to a seventh consecutive two-year term as chairman of the Slow Learners’ Club, Asian Chapter.

Well, ok, not really — but it [...]

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IHMCFF

By On January 26, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Today was a day for a committee meeting of the Shanghai chapter of IHMCFF.

IHMCFF was a major club back in Hanoi back when I was starting my first media project, and it has now been reborn here in the capital of full-contact commuting. The full name of the club is, I Help Michael Cole [...]

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Nail the Filing

By On January 24, 2008 · Leave a Comment

It’s Thursday. Still about a week left before I take off for a Spring Festival vacation (do entrepreneurs have vacations?) and still a few things to take care of.

On Monday we should get the letter of reference from the nice folks at HSBC confirming that we had little other choice than to open an [...]

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Serial Entrepreblogger

By On January 23, 2008 · Leave a Comment

This is my first post. This is my new blog. This is my new life. Welcome.

Well, okay, maybe it’s not such a new life. Maybe it’s a lot like the old one, but it’s different too. And since I only half know what I’m doing, I’m sharing my adventures with all of you in [...]

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