Business Ideas: “best credit card cashback” app

Todays business idea: An app for figuring out which credit card to use for which purchase. I personally have 3 different credit cards I use regularly and all of them have different benefits and disadvantages.

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Expat Guide to Switzerland: Insurances

Today you’ll learn about the different (mandatory) insurances in Switzerland. How to select them and which ones to avoid. tl;dr: You usually want to go with Assura with the highest deductible (sorry german link, use Google translate).

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How I grew my salary by 31x in the last 17 years

Today I’ll tell you my story on how I grew my salary by 31x in the last 17 years. Sorry for the somewhat click-baity title but it is effectively the multiplier between my first yearly salary in 2003 and today!

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Expat Guide to Switzerland: Child Care / School/Education system

This Expat Guide to Switzerland post is about child care in Switzerland. Expats usually are well educated and come to Switzerland to get a well paying job.

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How to create beautiful Sankey Diagrams

I was asked by several readers how I create the Sankey diagrams in my monthly updates. So I thought I write a quick post about it.

Kudos to Tony whom I asked originally because I’ve seen the Sankey diagrams in his monthly updates and liked them a lot.

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Happy 1 year anniversary: Fondue.blog

One year ago I started this blog. Let’s see what happened during that year in numbers:

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Portfolio Update December 2020 – 500k baby!

Swiss coins

Welcome to the Portfolio update of December 2020. We are half-millionaires, wohoooo!!

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Expat Guide to Switzerland: How to make Swiss friends

Welcome to another new blog post series. I thought about a bit how to add more value for my readers by posting helpful blog articles. Since I’m Swiss and worked with several dozens of expats by now, I thought it would be helpful to write some articles for new arrivals in Switzerland. I’ll take my experience as Swiss person and sprinkle them with the recurring mistakes/struggles of my expat coworkers, which I’ve noticed over the years.

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Portfolio Update November 2020

Swiss coins

Welcome to the Portfolio update of November 2020. I managed to dissolve 4k EUR of my P2P portfolio this month. Net worth grew quite a bit probably due to currency fluctuations.

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How to setup QNAP Cloud Backup using Infomaniak Swiss Backup

I recently setup a QNAP Backup for my NAS and realized that the documentation available from Infomaniak for QNAP is a bit outdated. So I thought to write an article about it. Infomaniak offers a product called “Swiss Backup” (affiliate link, I earn a little commission when using this link) where they guarantee that all data stays safe in Switzerland. They have a 90 Day free trial and afterward pretty competitive pricing for Swiss standards.

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