Archive for April, 2008
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
There, I just added US$1,000,000 to the value of my company -- we're building a "community!" But in the case of RightSite, we actually are trying to get groups of people to work together (and any additional investor attention this may bring is purely coincidental).
Perhaps the biggest challenge that ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
It's easy to get, you won't be busted for it, and it's pretty to look at. It's the all open-source office.
This week we hit another milestone here at RightSite as we began the transition to the all open-source, no Microsoft office. Now, if you are not interested in ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Today was another big day at RightSite as we hosted our first focus group meeting. Right here in Mike's living room.
Since our little company still lacks understanding in some critical areas of our business, we are relying on input from friends through these focus groups to help fill in the ...
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
This week is all about growth at Rightsite. We added our first intern, Anne, and hired two more to start next week. While your accountant might tell you that more headcount is a bad thing, we are here to build websites, not to do accounting. So more staff ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
Today was the first day of the sixteenth week of Rightsite, and this week looks like it's going to centre on building a list of requirements for the site, inducting some new team members, and getting our newsletters started. (Not to mention that ongoing office search).
Web development
Development of the site ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
Getting ready to wrap up another web week here, and once again very little has gone according to plan. But that's not necessarily bad.
Originally we were going to get our marketing underway this week, but that plan seems to have gotten derailed by some unexpected time consumption in other ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
If we figure that Rightsite, my new industrial property project, started from the first of the year, then this is officially Week 15. So where the H-E-doublehockeysticks are we?
A quick review:
Trademarks Registration -- done
WFOE Registration -- underway (done next month)
Office -- searching now
Website construction -- starts today (hooray)
Build ...
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
Tomb Sweeping Festival is great. Having only arrived in China recently I don't yet any tombs to sanitise so, like a lot of other folks I'm left with three days for what I will. (By the way, is this a historic event? China's first three day weekend? Maybe ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Yeah, we took a day off from Mingtiandi yesterday, but that's only because there's no room for fools here at Rightsite.Asia. Now it's time to survey another week.
Big items for the week:
Web development contract. After nearly two months of searching for web developers and asking for proposals it looks ...
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