
About one month ago I started publishing weekly newsletters of China real estate information here on Mingtiandi and the response has been stronger than I imagined. More users sign up every day from several countries around the globe, and more than 30% of our 1830 readers are reading every edition.
So if response is [...]

Today is Monday at Mingtiandi, which means that like senior-level professionals everywhere, I have been looking for some way to avoid doing real work.
The result is the new Mingtiandi logo.
The sunrise in the logo is meant to reflect the first two characters of the website’s name in Chinese (明天) which together mean [...]

More than 200 workers at a Singapore-owned electronics plant in Shanghai remained on strike for a third day on Friday to denounce what they said was a management plan for mass layoffs, the latest outbreak of labor unrest in China. Blue-jacketed workers, chanting slogans and holding aloft banners demanding management explanations, blocked the [...]

SHANGHAI’S foreign-invested companies have outperformed their domestic counterparts in giving pay raises to their employees this year, a survey by the Shanghai Statistics Bureau said.
The real-estate sector in Shanghai has offered staffers the biggest raises despite the property market turning sluggish.
The bureau’s survey covered thousands of local workers from various industries. The [...]

Independent market data, while still unconfirmed by external sources, indicated a sudden interest by team members at Google headquarters in studying potential acquisition targets in China’s real estate media market. (Or at least we at RightSite sincerely hope so).
While we were reviewing our weekly web traffic report at RightSite today we came [...]

There was big news in the tech world today as sources within Google let it be known that the company was moving away from using Windows on its workstations. At RightSite, we can only say, “What took you so long?”
As reported today in the Financial Times, Google has put in place measures [...]

Most folks can only count on death and taxes. If you are managing a startup, then you get a bonus — you can count on death, taxes and at least one system failure a week.
By necessity, most startups run on the cheap. We forgo expensive systems and big teams in favour of lightweight, [...]

As many of you who have read this blog may know, at RightSite, we take our recruitment very seriously. However, in case there are any would-be applicants out there who are unaware of our stringent requirements for new team members, I would like it to be known that today we rejected a Harvard PhD [...]
One of the key factors in the whether a startup is successful is how effectively the team collaborates in accomplishing their goals. At RightSite we are a small team producing a very big website so we are always looking for tools that help us to share information and work together more efficiently, and [...]

Much is happening at RightSite these days. We are cashflow positive thanks to some strong sales this year, RightSite now ranks among the 5,000 most popular sites in China according to Alexa.com, and we have been putting countless hours into recruiting new team members so that we can grow even more. (Which might [...]
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