Hello from Prague, Czech republic

[Petr Å Ã dlo]

Hi MJ&all,

First of all thanks to MJ for the great book which has brought me here.

I have always worked on the bridge between ICT and financial services business - consultant, project manager in bank, sales, executive director in a software company. On the edge of 30 years old I have finally understood that no job can ever be satisfactory. MJ provided the best explanation I have ever read.

Since 32 I am learning my way through free-lance consulting which financed my time for several start-ups (with one financially small succesfull exit), once even with experience of pitching to VCs in Silicon Valley (no money raised, but got some great insights) and finally setting up a (so-far) succesful service-design/innovation company along with my friend and long-time business partner in 2010.

My current goal is scaling: the business is very difficult because as a consultancy company it has a strong dependency on its founders. But there are good margins and we have some ideas (and a lot of work in front of us).

I am looking forward provide and receive fun and inspiration.

With best regards,

Petr Sidlo

PS: sorry for my name, it seems that the forum does not handle well Czech characters - and I did not find a way to replace them with English equivalents;*any help is appreciated

 

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[biophase]

Welcome. I happen to be in Prague right now. What a beautiful city!!!

 

[domular]

Welcome, there are a lot of good programers in that region of world.

 

[Petr Å Ã dlo]

beer

Welcome. I happen to be in Prague right now. What a beautiful city!!!

Yes, and many interesting women too ... how about chat over a beer?

 

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[biophase]

Sure, I'll only be here 2 more days.

 

[MJ DeMarco]

Hello Petr and welcome!

 

[FastNAwesome]

Yes, and many interesting women too

Eh, us Europeans know

And some really fine beer I must say (at least it's advertised here as the "Taste of the old Prague")

Hope to visit some day.

Welcome and best of luck on your fastlane path, glad to hear you're already making it.


Yes, the consultancy thing can be hard to expand, but it can be expanded. It's hard to break through that
boundary when one realizes that there are other experts (or future experts) that can do the job just fine.

Of course, their knowledge would not be a match to yours, but still they would be experts, helping people on
behalf of your company, while you just earn with no work.

I've seen an expert-based company deal with this by simply hiring highly qualified individuals, and if some
customer insists on being served by "the big boss" (that would be you) - well, that comes at an extra rate.

Some internal knowledge base of your company for all the FAQ's could be helpful, if you want all customers
to benefit from your knowledge - then the additional expert employees could base advice on that, and use their
knowledge for interpreting it correctly for the actual customer, and his specific situation.

 

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[biophase]

Yes, and many interesting women too ... how about chat over a beer?

The women here look incredible... but they never smile.

 

[CZ_Voyager]

Ahoj!

I'm Czech as well. I live in the UK at the moment!

I've screwed up a lot of things in the past and now in my thirties I'm starting again. No excuses! It's never too late!

Good luck!

Petr