If it won't be simple, it simply won't be. [Hire me, source code] by Miki Tebeka, CEO, 353Solutions

Sunday, January 13, 2019

353solutions - 2018 in Review

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

Insights

  • 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

Last Year’s Goals

  • 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.

Goals for 2019

  • GopherCon Israel (February 11, 2019)
  • Work less while increasing revenue
  • Attend at least 3 conferences
  • Give at least 4 talks in meetups or conferences
  • Two free 1/2 day workshops
  • Start another book

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