353Solutions - 2018 in Review

Happy new year! Here’s a summary of 353solution’s 2018.

Numbers

Total of 242 calendar days where worked for a customer (including partial days)
- Down 11 days from 2017
- Out of 261 work days in 2018
Median consulting work day is 3:36h
- Workshops are usually a full day
Normalized work days (total divided by 8) is 203.3
- Up from 171.6 normalized days in 2017
Of these 53.5 days were in workshops and the rest in consulting
- Up from 30 in 2017
13 workshops
- Up from 10 last year
- 4 more video courses on LinkedIn Learning/Lynda (over 300K viewers already)
- Teaching in Israel, UK and the US and Germany
Several new client including MGT, Gett, Actiview and others
Revenue up by 20%
- 40% from workshops

Personal social network keep bringing all the work
Go is exploding
- GopherCon Israel brought many connections
- Much more Go in consulting
Python & Data Science in demand for workshops
- As well as Go
We need to get better on marketing open classes
- Might have an alliance for that

Work less while increasing revenue
- Mixed results here. Worked more but revenue is up ☺
Publish my book
- Done: https://forging-python.com
More workshops and less consulting
- Done
Two open enrollment workshops
- Nope ☹
Two free 1/2 day workshops
- Nope ☹
Keep working from home
- Done
Attend at least 3 conferences
- Only PyCon Israel
Give at least 4 talks in meetups or conferences
- Done (2 PyWeb IL, 1 Go Israel, 1 PyCon Israel, 1 Big Data)
Get better at marketing
- Decided marketing is the open source work I’m doing.