Let's see how 353solutions did in 2016. We'll start with the numbers and then some insights and future goals.
Numbers
- Total of 193 work days (days where customer were billed)
- Up 23 days from 2015
- Out of 261 work days in 2016
- Out of these 61 days are in workshops and the rest consulting
- 18 workshops
- Up from 14 in 2015
- Go workshops
- First docker workshop (teaching with ops specialist)
- First open enrollment class
- In Israel, UK, and Poland
- Only 4 out of the country (vs 8 last year, which is good - I prefer to fly less)
- Workshops range from 1 to 4 days
- Revenue up 10% from 2016
- Several new clients including GE, AOL, Outbrain, EMC and more
Insights
- Social network keeps providing almost all the work
- Doing good work will get you more work
- Workshops pay way more than consulting
- However can't work from home in workshops
- Consulting keeps you updated with latest tech
- Python and data science are big and in high demand
- However Go is getting traction
- Having someone else take care of the "overhead" (billing, contracts ...) is great help.
Last Year's Goals
We've set some goals in 2015, let's see how we did:
We've set some goals in 2015, let's see how we did:
- Keep positioning in Python and Scientific Python area
- Done
- Drive more Go projects and workshops
- Done
- Works less days, have same revenue at end of year
- Failed here. Worked more and revenue went up
- Start some "public classes" where we rent a class and people show up
- Did only one this year
- Publish my book
- Failed here, though I'm close. Probably Q1 this year.
Goals for 2017
- Work less while keeping same revenue
- Work more from home
- Publish my book
- Publish a video course
- More open enrollment classes
