First full calendar year that 353solutions is operating. Let's start with the numbers and then some insights and future goals.
Numbers
- 170 days of work in total
- Work day is a day where I billed someone for some part of it
- Can be and hour can be 24 hours (when teaching abroad)
- There were total of 251 work days in 2015
- There were some work days that are not billable (drafting syllabuses, answering emails ...) but not that many
- 111 of days consulting to 4 clients
- 1st Go project!!!
- 58 days teaching 14 courses
- Python at all levels and scientific Python (including new async workshop)
- In UK, Poland and Israel
Insights
- Social network provided almost all the work
- Keep investing in good friends (not just for work :)
- Workshops pay way more than consulting
- However can't work from home in workshops
- Consulting keeps you updated with latest tech
- Had to let go of a client due to draconian contract
- No regrets here, it was the right decision
- Super nice team. Sadly lawyers had final say the company
- Python and data science are big and in high demand
- Delegating overhead to the right person helps a lot
- Accounting, contracts ...
Future Goals
- Keep positioning in Python and Scientific Python area
- Drive more Go projects and workshops
- Works less days, have same revenue at end of year
- Start some "public classes" where we rent a class and people show up
- Some companies don't have big enough data science team
- Need to invest in advertising
- Publish my book (more on that later)
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