{"id":1833,"date":"2010-10-01T16:35:54","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T14:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/?p=1833"},"modified":"2010-10-01T22:57:27","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T20:57:27","slug":"haxx-the-first-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2010\/10\/01\/haxx-the-first-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Haxx – the first year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year I left<\/a> my former employment, and focused on Haxx<\/a> full-time. My brother joined me<\/a> a few months afterward (January 2010). Today, at October 1 2010 we celebrate the official one year anniversary of Haxx AB as employer.\"Haxx\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The history of Haxx goes far longer back than so. Linus Nielsen Feltzing<\/a> and I first registered the company Haxx back in October 1997 and we used it then primarily as a way to market and do business on the side of our “real” jobs. To have a way to charge and do things we wanted to, that wasn’t conflicting with our day jobs. And of course we also bought the domain and could setup our “permanent” email addresses etc, which turned out great since I’ve thus used the same email address since back then and I hope I never need to change it again!<\/p>\n

The first year of Haxx has been nothing but great fun and a major success.<\/em><\/p>\n

As we’re contract developers and consultants, we of course need to make sure that our employees are sold to customers to a high degree with as little gaps as possible. Our projects are typically going on from a few months up to a year or two. During this year, both me and Bj\u00c3\u00b6rn have worked with several end customers and we’ve thus both managed to change assignments several times and none of the times caused any gaps – at all<\/em>. Our services seem to be in high demand.<\/p>\n

Being only two employees brings challenges on how to deal with sales, financial accounting etc as we’re just a few guys and we’re experts on development! We have found a few great partners that “sell” us (and of course we pay them a certain amount of percentage, but that’s a price we need to accept and is nothing but fair anyway since we can then remain doing what we’re good at and what we love) and we’re buying the bookkeeping etc from another company that is specialized at doing it for companies like us.<\/p>\n

We’re looking forward to many more years of great fun. We also hope to be able to grow the company slightly over time, so if you’re a kick-ass embedded open source guy with networking experience and some 10+ years in the business and you live in the Stockholm Sweden area, do get in touch! As I’ve mentioned before, we’re gonna start out our second year with Linus onboard<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’ll get back with an update next year! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last year I left my former employment, and focused on Haxx full-time. My brother joined me a few months afterward (January 2010). Today, at October 1 2010 we celebrate the official one year anniversary of Haxx AB as employer. The history of Haxx goes far longer back than so. Linus Nielsen Feltzing and I first … Continue reading Haxx – the first year<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8],"tags":[419,429,427],"class_list":["post-1833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-tech","tag-development","tag-haxx","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1833"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2083,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions\/2083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}