Jul 072010
 

I’ve been away from this site for quite some time, there is only one reason for thatย – BUSY.

I think I’d better put some time on this site as there may be still someone care about me and willing to read something here instead of somewhere else, so …

Actually I have no idea where to start – I rent my apartment which is close to my office (20 min walk one way) so now I walk to office everything which seems making my life healthier. I used to get some breakfast on my way to office but I may try to find something new. I’m still skipping most of my lunches, and for dinner I had it with colleague (that will be a rich dinner) or have it alone (most time, it’s just a bowl of noodle).

Weather here in Shanghai is horrible, but seems I can still live with it, since I spend more of my time in office or at home, which means I have air conditioner for almost all the time. The only tough time is whenever I went out for smoking, but anyway that’s not healthy so let’s take it as punishment.

Business wise … things are just ok. It’s a big company now so it is not the pure start-up model that I was expecting, but things are still moving forward and I’m feeling busy now – after almost 2 years of “nothing to do”. I’m hiring, but I failed couple of times to get a product manager, so I think I’m going to focus on existing people, try to push some kids to see if they can grow fast enough. Engineer wise it’s mixed – I have problem in hiring expert on mail protocol (SMTP, POP, etc) as it is not that popular now but I have no problem finding people who want to do backend stuffs (distributed storage, etc), I didn’t pay too much attention on front-end engineer as it won’t be too bad, but I need to grab at least on in the coming weeks.

There are some business deals that I’m working on but I cannot share with public, but they are all moving smoothly. The BD manager who’s working with me is really really really smart, helped me striked pretty good deals and moving things forward even faster than I was expecting. He got a girl helping him now, and I wish the rest of the business negotiation will be as good as before.

Back to product, I have to prepare product plan due to lacking of product manager. Good thing is that I can learn to prepare those stuffs though I’ve been reading those B.S. for so many times, bad thing is that it’s time consuming.

Pretty much everything that I have at this moment, I will give out more things later on, once I have some.

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