Running a dev shop — part 2: Bootstrapping and specialization | by Marek Kirejczyk | Medium
🎮 Part 1: Myths and favorable facts 🥾 Part 2: Bootstrapping and specialization 🎤 Part 3: Talent pipeline and employee life cycle 📣 Part 4: Attracting customers 📈 Part 5: Growth One of the greatest things about dev houses is that you don’t need much to start one. A person with coding skills, basic communication skills and willingness to work is enough. A great way to start a dev house is by freelancing and building a personal brand to later migrate it towards a company brand. Ethworks started as a small side hustle when a random person reached out to me to build a prototype for a start-up. It was based on a new technology, called Ethereum. The founder had tracked me down on AngelList, using the search keyword “blockchain”, which I had put there a while earlier and totally forgot. One thing led to another, the prototype was created, and I got intrigued by this new technology I got to use. Without much hesitation, I bought a ticket for the upcoming conference on the topic. Many years
Press enter or click to view image in full size Running a dev shop — part 2: Bootstrapping and specialization Marek Kirejczyk 13 min read · Sep 6, 2022 -- 1 Listen Share This is the second part of a series on running a dev shop. See the overview of the posts below. 🎮 Part 1: Myths and favorable facts 🥾 Part 2: Bootstrapping and specialization 🎤 Part 3: Talent pipeline and employee life cycle 📣 Part 4: Attracting customers 📈 Part 5: Growth Bootstrapping — fake it until you make it One of the greatest things about dev houses is that you don’t need much to start one. A person with coding ski
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