Home improvement projects create images of buckets filled with paint, dust, construction, and other stressful ideas. While this is one type of home improvement project, not all are so involved. Start with small things, like remodeling a guest bathroom, to see if it is something that you have the capacity for. Freshen up the look of your aging bathroom without re-tiling. Scrape any accumulated grout, and then re-grout instead of replacing...

On my way back from a meeting with Alexandre Godvin, entrepreneur and owner of AQM Management (I’ll write something about him in the coming weeks), I received an email from NextStep events. For those who were in Shanghai in 2008-2010, you may remember their business  / networking events, probably the most famous ones at the time. Well, they’re back and they’re updating everyone with the weekly entrepreneurship events in...

In a business environment like Shanghai, you meet new people every day. Add up tons of networking events, business conferences, and a quite high turnover rate, and you end up with a huge number of business cards to deal with.. here’s a tool to turn this great source of information into effective resources. Simple CRM for everyone With the development of cloud computing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing) and high speed...

Why would I need that? Today’s web is great since plenty of online tools are released every day, most of the time free ! It’s easy to find good reviews of these tools, but the best is always to try it to make sure this is the tool you need. The thing is, since most of these services are based on the “freemium” model (free service with optional paid features  : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemium). Which means...

Have you heard about Gantter ? Well, first of all, have you heard about Gantt charts ? “A Gantt chart is a type of bar chart that illustrates a project schedule. Gantt charts illustrate the start and finish dates of the terminal elementsand summary elements of a project.”, Wikipedia says ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gantt_chart ) Basically, it’s a great way to manage your project, lisk all the tasks you will have...