[steffoz]

Thank you! It was never an all-in bet for us, so we never struggled too much tbh. It slowly grew inside our web agency as a part-time side-quest, and only when we reached an OK level of revenues that could feed our families it became a full-time job and an actual funded company.

[jacquesm]

Ah, a spin out, ok, that makes good sense, and that helped you avoid a lot of the dangers that would have killed an entity all-in from day #1. More often than not that kind of pressure leads to sub-optimal decision making and you budded off in a nice and controlled way. Web agencies are pretty good as the basis for this kind of thing, I've seen it happen multiple times now. I think the reason is that you know exactly where the pain points of your customers are and that sets you up for productization. And in lean times you can't fall far because the agency customers will need to be served anyway.

[embedding-shape]

That's a really neat and natural approach to build sustainable businesses, thank you for that and extra thanks for publishing something public others can point to as successful examples of that process being implemented in real life.

[arresin]

Did you keep a blog during the early days? Wouldn’t mind reading it if so.

[steffoz]

infortunately not.. too low self-esteem at the time to think that would have been interesting for anyone :)

[jacquesm]

I think it may well be still worth it to look back and note it down as much as possible and I'm sure that it will be interesting to many people.

[steffoz]

Noted, thanks! :)