4 Things Your Dishwasher Can Teach You About Studying
I like to calculate the average percentage discounts from the list price for ‘Sub of the Day’ offers at Subway to decide on what days to go there for lunch. Spoiler: It…
That Gap Between Expectations and Perceived Reality
I recently talked to a fellow entrepreneur who seemed quite stressed out. Despite business going well, being healthy, and otherwise not having any complaints, he felt stressed. Very stressed. I could relate…
Here’s Why You Can Stop Feeling Bad for Playing Video Games
You know what leading thinkers at Google, Glassdoor and US presidential campaigns have in common? They are die-hard gamers. Not just play-GTA-V-for-an-entire-weekend gamers, but invest-years-of-their-lives-into-their-World-of-Warcraft-guild gamers. The real deal. While their peers ramped up college…
A Layman’s Guide to Hiring a Lawyer in Thailand
To me, finding a great lawyer in Bangkok has always felt a bit like trying to find a straw needle in a haystack: it’s not only that I might have no idea what…
How to Manage Change as an Entrepreneur
“No one ever got fired for buying IBM,” might have been one of the most successful marketing slogans in corporate history. Buying IBM computers was playing it safe. Making them, however, wasn’t: IBM ran…
Why Doing Business in Thailand Isn’t an Awful Idea.
When my former business partner and I picked out Thailand, I was 22 years old. Thailand was on our radar because he had done an internship here. That was it. From the get-go, the main reason…
467 Hours and 55 Minutes in the Life of an Entrepreneur
What do entrepreneurs do all day? How do business owners and managers use their time to accomplish their goals? While I can’t answer that on a representative basis, I can give you a…
Cost of Doing Business in Bangkok: ฿37,827 per Employee. Here Are the Details.
Thinking about opening a Thailand office? Already have a virtual team and are wondering what the additional costs are of putting them under one roof? Curious how much overhead and benefits contribute…
A Cross-Cultural Management Guide to Thailand
A few weeks back I wrote about building a kick-ass team of Thai employees and how to deal with with the challenges of recruiting and assembling an awesome team. Today I’d like to…
The Nuts and Bolts of a Successful Bootstrapping Strategy
How do you create a company out of thin air? What’s the magic that let’s you grow a business with no money in the bank? Bootstrapping means doing exactly that: Starting and growing a company…
How to Build a Team of Kick-Ass Thai Employees
In the close to 10 years I’ve been running companies in Thailand I’ve probably done more than 200 job interviews. I still remember the very first one. Especially my surprise when I…
Stop Asking How to Get Motivated
Imagine you owned a solar powered car. Silent, clean, and cheap to run on top. Great for fun rides, afternoon appointments or weekend excursions. Not so much for getting to work every day and on…
