How to grow from one to many?

If you reach a point in your freelancing career where you have more work than you can handle by yourself, you will be faced with deciding how to move forward. Do you start turning down work? Do you work with other freelancers? Or do you start hiring employees and building a business?

If you decide to hire, you will find yourself confronted by an entirely new set of challenges. Key among those will be internal communication, team coordination, resource management, personnel management, and many more. You must be able to implement new tools and processes in order to transition to working in an efficient team.

In this session, our two presenters will give you the information you need, based on their own experiences, to be successful if you choose to go down the path of expansion.

Gergely is the CTO of Cheppers, a company that went from zero to 20+ employees in 3 years, and Gábor is a Drupal developer who went from freelancing to building a company that had 5 employees at its peak then went back to freelancing again. They will tell you their stories, sharing everything they’ve learnt, all the mistakes, all the difficulties, and all the good, the bad, and the ugly decisions they faced during this period.