I moved to Prague several years ago to work for a Silicon Valley superstar company. And I enjoyed it, I really did. I had a great job, reasonable money, perfect people around and really a good portion of freedom in what and when to do. For some reason my direct managers always liked me and so I also had a very good career growth. I left the company from a senior developer position. Not that nobody was wondering why.

All of a sudden some headhunter (I guess through LinkedIn) offered me some position and that made me thinking. I checked also other interesting offers, but I decided for freelancing. Now I have a project where I have more money and I work from home. Perfect. But the most significant parts of my decision was the freedom I was about to have as a freelancer and my old dream of having my own company. To work on my own thing. And yes, also to make the money and be independent.

I always wanted that. As a small boy I was thinking about name and logo for my company. I had no idea what should be the business for it, but I wanted it :-) Now I was making decision to leave a stable job and I felt that freelancing was moving me a little bit closer to my dream.

Of course, things are not that easy, I need to feed my family, pay the house… And that brings me to the important question: ‘What the f*ck was I doing at university and in my first job when I was single, living with my parents and my living costs were close to zero?’ Such a good times for doing startup. Or were they? I calm myself down by saying that I needed to learn things. But for f*cking 8 years?!

Anyway, here I am doing this thing and trying to solve all the problems related to switch from employee to entrepreneur and I will try to document it here.

I’ve been thinking about creating a blog for some time. A blog where I could write down some observations from my new adventure. By that I meant building the web startup. Far away from the wonderful world of TechCrunch, in Prague.

I needed some push to start it and that happened to be the Geeks On a Plane event in Prague. Event itself left some mixed feelings here, but I must say that I really like Dave McClure. Yes, he did cool us down by saying US investors basically don’t invest outside the US, but his presentations were nice and useful. Look for the slides on his page (and prepare yourself for the horrible visual experience). I need to go through his 1-page business model thing again as it was something new to me. Other than that most of what he said just ensures me I’m on the right track. But back to the point, the important thing he mentioned was: let the world know about you, write a blog or something. So here I am, writing this tumblog, or whatever it is called.

Note: Yes, I am that sort of impulsive idiot, so don’t bookmark this shit yet, because this could by the last post here. I could find (again) that I have no time for this kind of self-expression and rather dig into the code. And yes, I am doing this sort of anonymously because of a good reasons.