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The Capitulator
Oct 31, 2008

TraderStav posted:

Anyone else branching out and forming off-line professional services while maintaining their day jobs? Interested in hearing others experiences, and happy to share mine as well.

So I'm basically setting up a 'side-project' that I hope one day turn into a proper professional services business. It will be a news / research / intelligence portal catering to a specific industry (which I currently cover in my present job). The idea is to use it at first more as a creative outlet since the content my firm currently releases that I get involved in is basically less about original thought and more about trying to sell consulting work / kiss rear end. I'm hoping to launch for-sale products and services some time down the line.

At the very least, if things go well and the site goes online and I release some pieces for free, I'm hoping to use it to beef my resume.

My experience so far is this - I have to keep to a very strict schedule, otherwise, it tends to get sidelined by the 'real' job. I'm also trying to avoid any feedback on the name / branding ideas since I have a very specific idea of what it should be and am almost afraid that it would derail me / make me doubt things.

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