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In some website designs Paypal buttons are just really inconvenient because the HTML code is a FORM, not always practical to integrate with CSS or other clickable things. So in many cases, you will prefer to use a standard link in <a> tag. Paypal doesn't offer than by default by there's a way : Create a button, and save it : Merchant Services, you will find. Once saved, go in : My ...

I wish that from the start, before starting any business, that I knew the secret of how start-ups successfully become big companies. Of course there are several steps in this process but I want to focus here on where 90% all die: I'll call it start-up pregnancy, right from the start. In French, we refer to launching a start-up saying "Je me lance", which means to throw oneself. And ...

In Europe and many parts of the "westernized" world, people usually have a negative view of the young (or not) adult who's still living with his parents. They'd be perceived as a bummer that just can't get a job like everyone else and still relies on their parents to survive. It's partly true for the entrepreneur profile; clearly, an entrepreneur at his parents house doesn't want to get ...

Last edited : September 16th, 2011. 3rd version. If you're the adventurer kind of nut that both likes to fly a paramotor and to travel, you're soon going to face the question "How on Earth am I gonna get this overseas safely ?" I recently faced the huge challenge of traveling with a paramotor and finally sorted it out. My gear is a Nirvana Electric, weighing total 35.4 kg without ...

Where to go dance Salsa in Kuala Lumpur? Last update on: Nov, 30th, 2011. Following a nice encounter with a CUBAN salsa instructor in Kuala Lumpur (the inevitable Lingerto) here are some of the best spots for Salsa (and possibly other latin dances like Merengue and Bachata) in Kuala Lumpur City. (List may not be exhaustive). Waste no more time, here's the best Kuala Lumpur daily Salsa diet. Lines with a "★★★" ...

When you order stuff on Ebay from China for a 1/10th of the price in Europe or Northern America, and that shipping included, you can assume that shipping costs are very low. It wouldn't be surprising if the Chinese Post or the Chinese Government put a lot of efforts to bring international shipping costs to a minimum so as to encourage exports. China has had a long history of a ...

Anyone who has become an expert in a field will often be asked by a novice the same inevitable question "How did you become such a great singer, or dancer, or actor, etc". If you observe carefully, the answer consistently contains something in the fashion of "It's hard work, you have to earn it.  Nothing comes easily.  If you really want it you can get there too, there's ...

There are millions of ways of looking at the human psyche, different angles. Vets know about people by learning to deal with animals, bartenders learn through observing how people interact at bars, GPs know though the stories that people tell them, etc...Business people can learn through marketing. Magic happens when you start to look at the same thing through different angles. So, I was reading that book about marketing, ...

Where you host your website is very important and should be ideally near your clients. "Near" doesn't necessarily mean geographically close but "networkly" close. What matters is not how close to your visitors' homes it is, but how fast you can access that. For instance, if you live in New York City, and it takes you 3 hours to go to LA, and 4 hours to get out ...

This is my first real trip to Cambodia. I had been here before but only for the utmost touristy experience: Museums in Phnom Penh (the genocide one is particularly striking) and the temples in Siem Reap...classic, and not frankly very fun unless you're really into old stuff. I am back this time in Sihanoukville, a fast developing coastal city in the Southwestern part of the country. Not the least ...