The thing about a consultancy is that it's impossible to assign a monetary value. Its value comes not from any asset owned, but rather the contracts it services. Skills + relationships. Hard to put a dollar value on that.

Startups with products can be given a net value some multiple of...

IV This would be a boring story if it were just of me running a software consultancy and hanging out with my startup founder friend for  coffee here and there. That is not what this story is about. Today I'm no longer involved with that old devshop. My partner and...

Although we couldn't ship features as fast as my friend's startup, in the end we outlasted them all while making more money. I remember him making him no money, their product spent over two years with no pathway to profitability in ever in sight.

Maybe I'm pessimistic, but I think I...

We specialized in web applications . There was actually a time when we considered going into desktop and native applications, but the demand for web apps was just too big that I guess my partner and I never even had the chance to decide. Our path was chosen for us.

We...

The 2010s feels like ages ago. Although counting the years, the number that has past is not so many.
 
I had still been in my 20s, barely, and the world felt a lot different. Especially mine.

I was still running a small software consultancy with one other owner, my business partner who...