Working in Vietnam 101, a crash course for foreigners, Part 4

May 9, 2012

Today, the interesting power of beer and hard liquor in partner relationship management. In most of the places of this planet, alcohol is a fair social lubricant. In Vietnam, it is the business fuel. Yet, not in the way you …

Working in Vietnam 101, a crash course for foreigners, Part 3

May 8, 2012

Today, we will touch on the exquisite art of setting up a meeting in Vietnam. Vietnam is just as any other country, and from time to time you would need to have meetings with partners, colleagues, and officials. Whether you …

Working in Vietnam 101, a crash course for foreigners, Part 2

May 2, 2012

The last post was on the difficult, yet precious art of distinguishing the various level of yeses you would have to deal with in Vietnam. Today, a more practical case on how I’ve got crashed by a health care official …

Urban Care is recruiting an IT manager

April 20, 2012

Our team continues to grow. Now we need a new IT manager with the following skills: concrete experience in database design in MySQL/PHP and Ajax good knowledge in: Java, Jquery, HTML 4, possibly HTML 5 it would be nice to …

Working in Vietnam 101, a crash course for foreigners, Part 1

April 19, 2012

It’s been over 5 years I have been working in Vietnam. And what I can tell is that it is not an easy fit, at least at the beginning, and especially for Westerners. I saw so many people from Europe …

Piloting a social enterprise

March 6, 2012

Our company is developing well. We are now 7 team members, of which 4 full-time. We have created new services, our customer-base is rapidly expanding, and most of our clients are coming back for 2nd and 3rd contracts. Our financial …

Urban Care is recruiting, Admin/Accountant

February 6, 2012

Urban Care continues its expansion! We are now looking for a Vietnamese staff to hold the position of Chief Accountant/Administrator, and Cost analyst. The required qualifications of the candidates are listed below: Certified accountant with at least a bachelor degree; …

It is alive!

February 2, 2012

We made it. Conztellation is now real and breathing. You can visit our new product here. It looks superb, and we already have some of our old clients really eager to move to the system, which is a nice achievement …

Conztellation is moving on…

October 25, 2011

Some news on the development of our new service: Conztellation, with a z… Conztellation V0.1 would be available for our current clients on the 5th of December 2011 for a first round of beta testing, with a V1.0 ready to …

Constellation V0.1 is on the way

October 1, 2011

Well, there it goes! we have started to develop Constellation after a full year of brain-storming. The architecture is now ready (more than 7 interlinked databases… for now), as well as the general web lay-out. We are about to recruit …