We Want You!

Friday afternoon – time for beer. But first it’s time to get a grip on what we accomplished this week here at Rightsite.

This was pretty uneventful week here in the Tongren Lu headquarters of Rightsite. But sometimes uneventful is good — no crises, right? We have done pretty well on our project list for the week. If you tuned in on Monday you might remember that we aimed to ….

1. Continue pouring lists of industrial zones into the database
2. Recruit an accountant
3. Recruit two interns
4. Finalise the deal with the web development vendor
5. Start searching for an office
6. Try out our new CRM module

Here’s the blow by blow….

1. Industrial Zone Database — hey, we are over 700 now. Our goal of 1,000 should be accomplished soon
2. Recruit an accountant — Our target person ran away screaming when she found out we worked out of my living room. (But its a really nice living room)
3. Recruit two interns — damn, only got two applications. Something about having no company, no office and no website that seems unappealing to people that you expect to work for free
4. Finalise web development deal now — am on the second draft of a contract for this. Hope to finish early next week
5. Office search — contacted all my friends and a few agents. Am starting to look at places this weekend.
6. New CRM Module — oops! Our developer forgot to mention that before the module could be developed we would first have to reformat our structured list of 3,000 provinces, cities, districts, towns, postal codes and telephone prefixes. Tack another week onto that project
7. Other stuff:
   1. Put together a focus group to review the upcoming designs of our site
   2. Registered all the domain names that look like mine. Right-site.asia, ritesite.asia, rite-site.asia, rightsite.cn. All mine now. Hope that takes care of those domain squatters.

Ok, after review, we didn’t knock too many things off the list, but the places list reformatting was unexpected. In the meantime, we will need to work hard on recruitment.

As an employer over the past few years it has become increasingly difficult to hire staff. When you do hire you often rely on recommendations from existing staff. Of course, when you only have one staff in the company (other than myself) the opportunities for growth by recommendation are limited.

As a startup, we also have to deal with the following recruitment challenges:

• WFOE licenses take five months to process, and until the license is complete we cannot sign a labour contract with staff
• Without a business license we cannot place recruitment ads on major job boards or university websites
• That no office thing

So next week we will get more creative about the recruitment thing. There must be scores of people who would enjoy the prospect of spending their working days pouring industrial property data into a website. Get in on the ground floor!

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