Tokyo to Sigon — No Work!
Starting a company in Vietnam and immediately hiring six engineers would require substantial revenue from the beginning to avoid instant bankruptcy.
While I dream of doing business in Vietnam, the most realistic approach is to first double the work Goldrush is doing in Japan and then collaborate with Vietnam.
However, until I made contact on December 30th, Goldrush had planned to continue in 2023 with just our current three members plus one part-timer, so we weren’t accepting any additional projects.
Now, with the sudden addition of an elite team of six engineers, we need to revise our plans.
They were most skilled in Ruby on Rails. I remembered an inquiry from two years ago, at the height of the COVID pandemic, from a company president who needed Ruby on Rails engineering power. I decided to reach out to him on the off chance, but development had already settled down, and they had enough engineers.
I found myself wracking my brain, wondering if there was a good project out there of the right size for them, using Ruby on Rails, Node, or Vue.js.
Since I’ve never worked with Ruby or Ruby on Rails myself, I have no connections to the Ruby community in Japan, nor have I ever handled any Ruby-related projects in the past. As a result, I had no connections with people who might need these skills.
Tech communities are peculiar — even if you’re in the same city like Tokyo, if you work with different languages or frameworks, you might never have the chance to interact with people from other communities (laughs).
At Goldrush Computing Japan, we can handle Android apps (Kotlin), iPhone apps (Swift), Web (Vue.js), and backend (Node). Meanwhile, in Vietnam, we can work on iPhone apps (Swift), Web (Vue.js), and backend (Node, Ruby on Rails). Combining these two, there’s hardly anything we can’t create. I wonder if there’s a project out there somewhere that could fully utilize our capabilities…
To be continued.
Thank you for reading this fourth installment of my entrepreneurial journey.
As a reminder, our company, Goldrush Computing Inc., based in Tokyo, offers comprehensive services from requirements gathering and UX/UI design to development, testing, and post-launch support. We specialize in Web, Mobile, Backend, and Infrastructure/DevOps, with a current focus on Data Science and AI service development.
While rooted in Japan, we’re open to global collaborations. If you’re interested in working with us, please visit our website: https://goldrushcomputing.com/en
For any questions or potential collaborations, you can reach me at: mizutori@goldrushcomputing.com
Stay tuned for the next chapter in this cross-cultural business adventure!
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