The book got me all fired up again! I haven't had a business in a few years and I'm ready to start another one.
I'm making a promise to myself not to give up this time when the road gets bumpy. I'm hoping that posting here and reading other progress threads will kick me in the butt any time I think "this isn't going to work." I have a very thick skin, and I hope the you guys will be hard on me if it looks like I'm wavering.
The skills
I have 20 years professional experience in software development, 15 of those years consulting and managing offshore development teams. I've worked in everything from tiny start-ups where I was employee #2 (after the owner), all the way up to multi-billion dollar organizations with hundreds of thousands of people.
I have many years experience building effective development teams that produce very high quality work under budget and on time. I accept nothing less from my teams, and with time my team comes to expect nothing less of each other.
The plan
The plan is to take freelance software development opportunities from established businesses and farm them offshore. I will be the management and quality check until I can hire someone to do that for me.
I not only believe that I can turn this "offshore development with onshore management" model into a viable business, I was recently involved in a startup that has that business model and that guy is enjoying some moderate success. He's just too much of a control freak and it's one of the only things holding him back.
I have contacts within the industry that can help me get jobs. While nice, that's not absolutely necessary because I know this industry backwards and fowards, and can sell what I need to sell because I know the pain points that need fixing.
The goals
I also have plans for expanding past this business once I get the capital, but those are queued up for when it comes time to flesh those out.
I'm making a promise to myself not to give up this time when the road gets bumpy. I'm hoping that posting here and reading other progress threads will kick me in the butt any time I think "this isn't going to work." I have a very thick skin, and I hope the you guys will be hard on me if it looks like I'm wavering.
The skills
I have 20 years professional experience in software development, 15 of those years consulting and managing offshore development teams. I've worked in everything from tiny start-ups where I was employee #2 (after the owner), all the way up to multi-billion dollar organizations with hundreds of thousands of people.
I have many years experience building effective development teams that produce very high quality work under budget and on time. I accept nothing less from my teams, and with time my team comes to expect nothing less of each other.
The plan
The plan is to take freelance software development opportunities from established businesses and farm them offshore. I will be the management and quality check until I can hire someone to do that for me.
I not only believe that I can turn this "offshore development with onshore management" model into a viable business, I was recently involved in a startup that has that business model and that guy is enjoying some moderate success. He's just too much of a control freak and it's one of the only things holding him back.
I have contacts within the industry that can help me get jobs. While nice, that's not absolutely necessary because I know this industry backwards and fowards, and can sell what I need to sell because I know the pain points that need fixing.
The goals
- 1/1/2014 - Come up with a relatively automated business plan
- 3/1/2014 - Have an offshore team in-hand, vetted and ready to go
- 10/1/2015 - Have the offshore team finish up some of the software I've been working on independently to sell under my own company name
- 6/1/2016 - Quit the Slowlane full time
I also have plans for expanding past this business once I get the capital, but those are queued up for when it comes time to flesh those out.
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