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Francisco Quintero 🇨🇴

Well, yes. In fact, this company exists to date but I'm no longer putting any effort (beyond keeping registered in the local chamber of commerce).

It's a software company. I started it with some pals because we had a prospect that needed a registered company for a project but it never came to live.

I decided to keep and invest some time on it. In 2018, I was jobless and, thankfully, go to clients to work with. It was all freelance work but I took the chance to exercise working for the company. As organized and flexible as possible, being concise in communication, trying to do the best so the company would succeed.

In the end, local clients are very hard to work with because of expectations they have about software building and budget.

It was like an eight month effort. Tons of learning. I'll probably start looking for clients for the company but not soon. I first need to understand a bit more the business side of a company, analyze what went wrong, try to niche it down, and even create a product instead of making custom software (which is VERY complicated).

It's definitively worth it but needs a lot of commitment and sacrifice in the initial months.