ProteusThemes: from early days till today

Talk for the #startupvelenje, how we started ProteusTheme and where we are today.

The best audience I had so far and I am very happy for that invitation!

Transcript

1. Primoz Cigler, @primozcigler
2. How pet project became full grown business
3. EARLY DAYS
4. Business I am talking about: selling premium themes on the ThemeForest
6. Students, trying to succeed online
7. Passionate & good at what we did
8. Tried out our skills
11. MIDDLE DAYS
12. Our experiment = more $$$ than anything else
13. Our experiment = something we LOVE to do
14. Why we love it? • pick projects that inspires you • no deadlines • more profitable • can spend a lot of time for the things the clients usually don’t want to pay you for
15. BUT
16. We had other projects to run too
17. It was HARD to start saying NO to clients...
18. BUT
19. ...that’s the FOCUS!
20. We are still taking projects from clients...
21. BUT
22. ...we take only the BEST!
23. NOWADAYS
25. The team has grown
29. We have an experience which projects we CAN and which we CANNOT take
30. Increased the frequency of releases
32. WHAT we have LEARNED till TODAY
33. 1. Share everything you can
34. 2. Focus on one thing you’re good at
35. Keep the FOCUS!
36. 3. Connect/Work with the best people
37. People are IMPORTANT!
38. 4. And don’t forget...
39. PET PROJECTS are AWESOME!
40. Primož Cigler @primozcigler primoz@proteusnet.com