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Saturday, November 21st, 2009
It's Saturday in Shanghai and that makes it time to celebrate another victory at RightSite. We completed another week of productive work under substandard conditions. We successfully produced a our latest newsletter, got about 90 new property listings added to our directory, and have gained considerable ground on completing our ...
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Sunday, November 15th, 2009
It's been a while since I checked in here at Mingtiandi, but that's only because of how much work we've had to do building RightSite.asia.
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One of the benefits of building RightSite has been getting the opportunity to find out more about some ...
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Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
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I hate switchboards. This ubiquitous piece of office hardware has always seemed to be the biggest equipment rip-off that any business owner has to suffer. Paying lots of cash for a primitive switching system that comes ...
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
We have just finished our first year of Mingtiandi and our first year (almost) of RightSite.Asia. Although, I may be biased, I would have to say, "Not bad." Here's what I think our major accomplishments during the past 12 months:
Built the beta version of the RightSite.Asia's first stage
Assembled a database ...
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Monday, December 8th, 2008
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Last week we had RightSite's first official event, the Private Beta Private launch party, and we are happy to announce that it was a success. Out of the thirty-three people we invited, about 14 showed up, but many ...
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
For those of you tuning in at home, we are still hard at work on RightSite.Asia, and expecting to launch our beta version soon. Here's a quick run-down of the challenges we're working on:
Chinese proofreading: we are still revising and proofreading the Chinese version of the site
Value lists: we have ...
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Home sales are down
Office rents are falling
Exports have stalled
Foreign direct investment has dropped off a cliff
Not since SARS has it been so easy to get a table at your favorite restaurant
Yup, business is headed into a recession in China, and if you came here to make money (as opposed to ...
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Thursday, September 4th, 2008
As September arrives here in Mingtiandi, we've now been working on our new business for more than 8 months, and have spent five months developing our website, www.rightsite.asia. It's a lot of time, but we think we have accomplished something great.
We are now nearly finished with the website and have ...
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Monday, August 25th, 2008
Alpha versions, beta versions, test sites, visits from mom, exercise programs and contest defeats. It has been a busy month here at RightSite, so apologies if the blog was a bit slow lately.
The big news on this Monday is the debut of the RightSite.Asia sandbox site. (Apologies for the ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
We have been out of touch here on Mingtiandi for a few days, but only because we have been busy getting ready for the big contest. We wish it could be a beauty contest, but since industrial property really isn't all that sexy, we have had to settle for entering ...
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