A change of season

Jacopo Murador — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:46:00 -0500

If you’re a reader of this blog you are probably wondering why we’ve been so quiet lately. A lot happened during the past month and a half.

As a company we’re doing pretty well, we doubled our revenues, we opened a new office in beautiful Verona (Italy) and we have substantially improved the way we deal with project management and development. We are very proud of the fact we’ve always been profitable even if we received no money from VCs or other investors, slowly but constantly growing our business.

What we’ve not been able to do is to stick to what we really wanted to do. When we started we had a goal: we wanted to develop our own web application and sell it as a service. But the hard reality is we are a self funding firm and we ended up only doing client work to pay the bills. We only did client work for two years. Even if we know a consultancy agency would love to find itself in our position, we aren’t happy at all with that. Honestly nobody of us is happy anymore. We haven’t been pursuing our dreams, we only have been working hard on things which haven’t helped us achieve aour goals. At the end of the second year of SeeSaw’s life we sadly had to admit that we weren’t what we were expected to be and this forced us to make some hard decisions.

This’s why now SeeSaw will change a lot.

Paolo decided to move to London with his beloved girlfriend. He’ll start a new adventure, new challenges, will meet new people and have new opportunities. In his heart a foreign experience is what he always wanted to do. If you’d like to keep in touch with him or you’re interested in his Tabnav/RailsWidgets plugin, please visit his blog or consider subscribing to his RSS feed.

Michele will continue doing Java and Ruby development. He has a couple of personal projects he’s working on, after taking deserved break. You’ll probably hear about it in a few months.

Last but not least there is me. I will keep the company running and will lead the new SeeSaw way. From now on SeeSaw will build the web application it has been founded for. It is a financial analysis application for small/medium sized companies that – imho – will revolutionize the way they manage their resources and assets. No more client work, just stuff that matters.

Keep in touch, the new season is here!

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A change of season