Comments on: An Independent Consultant from March 1st 2007 http://www.rittmanmead.com/2007/02/01/an-independent-consultant-from-march-1st-2007/ Delivered Intelligence Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:47:41 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Rittman Mead Consulting » Bootstrapping an Oracle Consultancy http://www.rittmanmead.com/2007/02/01/an-independent-consultant-from-march-1st-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-2105 Rittman Mead Consulting » Bootstrapping an Oracle Consultancy Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:38:27 +0000 http://www.rittmanmead.com/wp2/2007/02/01/an-independent-consultant-from-march-1st-2007/#comment-2105 [...] I mentioned a couple of months ago that I was going freelance, and you may or may not know that prior to that, for the past seven years or so I worked as a consulting manager at an Oracle partner in the UK. I’ve always wanted to set up my own consultancy - the model being a bit of Miracle, mixed up with Joel Spolsky’s approach to handling developers and Eric Sink’s approach to marketing - but I’m pretty risk-averse and a developer/consultant rather than a salesperson. So any company we set up had to have low start-up costs, a pretty safe business model and also give us a reasonable amount of time for R&D/geeking as well as actual billing work. [...] [...] I mentioned a couple of months ago that I was going freelance, and you may or may not know that prior to that, for the past seven years or so I worked as a consulting manager at an Oracle partner in the UK. I’ve always wanted to set up my own consultancy – the model being a bit of Miracle, mixed up with Joel Spolsky’s approach to handling developers and Eric Sink’s approach to marketing – but I’m pretty risk-averse and a developer/consultant rather than a salesperson. So any company we set up had to have low start-up costs, a pretty safe business model and also give us a reasonable amount of time for R&D/geeking as well as actual billing work. [...]

]]> By: Rittman Mead Consulting » Introducing “Rittman Mead Consulting” http://www.rittmanmead.com/2007/02/01/an-independent-consultant-from-march-1st-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-2104 Rittman Mead Consulting » Introducing “Rittman Mead Consulting” Sat, 10 Mar 2007 20:25:05 +0000 http://www.rittmanmead.com/wp2/2007/02/01/an-independent-consultant-from-march-1st-2007/#comment-2104 [...] at the start of February I mentioned that I was leaving my consulting job and moving in to the world of independent consultancy; now that the move is complete and I’ve started the new business up, I can finally start [...] [...] at the start of February I mentioned that I was leaving my consulting job and moving in to the world of independent consultancy; now that the move is complete and I’ve started the new business up, I can finally start [...]

]]> By: Kehinde Eseyin http://www.rittmanmead.com/2007/02/01/an-independent-consultant-from-march-1st-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-2103 Kehinde Eseyin Fri, 02 Mar 2007 10:00:23 +0000 http://www.rittmanmead.com/wp2/2007/02/01/an-independent-consultant-from-march-1st-2007/#comment-2103 Mark, Congrats! Great move! Mark, Congrats!
Great move!

]]> By: Atul Kumar http://www.rittmanmead.com/2007/02/01/an-independent-consultant-from-march-1st-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-2102 Atul Kumar Sat, 24 Feb 2007 00:29:00 +0000 http://www.rittmanmead.com/wp2/2007/02/01/an-independent-consultant-from-march-1st-2007/#comment-2102 Congratulations Mark. I am also moving to Independent Consulting to explore more . Good luck for your New Role Atul http://becomeAppsDBA.blogSpot.com Congratulations Mark. I am also moving to Independent Consulting to explore more . Good luck for your New Role

Atul
http://becomeAppsDBA.blogSpot.com

]]> By: Maddy http://www.rittmanmead.com/2007/02/01/an-independent-consultant-from-march-1st-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-2101 Maddy Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:53:27 +0000 http://www.rittmanmead.com/wp2/2007/02/01/an-independent-consultant-from-march-1st-2007/#comment-2101 Congratulations! I made the same decision and will be heading out on my own as a web designer on March 1st as well! Kudos! Congratulations! I made the same decision and will be heading out on my own as a web designer on March 1st as well! Kudos!

]]> By: joel garry http://www.rittmanmead.com/2007/02/01/an-independent-consultant-from-march-1st-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-2100 joel garry Mon, 05 Feb 2007 05:35:59 +0000 http://www.rittmanmead.com/wp2/2007/02/01/an-independent-consultant-from-march-1st-2007/#comment-2100 Good luck, and be sure to work in down time for its value-add in the new paradigm! Good luck, and be sure to work in down time for its value-add in the new paradigm!

]]> By: Richard Phipps http://www.rittmanmead.com/2007/02/01/an-independent-consultant-from-march-1st-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-2099 Richard Phipps Sun, 04 Feb 2007 13:18:22 +0000 http://www.rittmanmead.com/wp2/2007/02/01/an-independent-consultant-from-march-1st-2007/#comment-2099 Good luck with this. I have a lot of respect for what you do and your involvement with getting people into data warehousing on Oracle, our office at Nottinghamshire County Council has your signature framed on UKOUG paper , it is next to Tom Kytes signature ! Good luck with this.

I have a lot of respect for what you do and your involvement with getting people into data warehousing on Oracle, our office at Nottinghamshire County Council has your signature framed on UKOUG paper , it is next to Tom Kytes signature !

]]> By: Prasad Pallapothu http://www.rittmanmead.com/2007/02/01/an-independent-consultant-from-march-1st-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-2098 Prasad Pallapothu Sat, 03 Feb 2007 19:27:42 +0000 http://www.rittmanmead.com/wp2/2007/02/01/an-independent-consultant-from-march-1st-2007/#comment-2098 It's real pleasure working with you. You will be missed certainly. Wish you good luck and do keep in touch. It’s real pleasure working with you. You will be missed certainly.

Wish you good luck and do keep in touch.

]]> By: Scott Gruber http://www.rittmanmead.com/2007/02/01/an-independent-consultant-from-march-1st-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-2097 Scott Gruber Sat, 03 Feb 2007 07:36:02 +0000 http://www.rittmanmead.com/wp2/2007/02/01/an-independent-consultant-from-march-1st-2007/#comment-2097 "my rates will be quite reasonable" Reasonable is of course a relative term! Good luck Scott “my rates will be quite reasonable”

Reasonable is of course a relative term!

Good luck
Scott

]]> By: vidya http://www.rittmanmead.com/2007/02/01/an-independent-consultant-from-march-1st-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-2096 vidya Fri, 02 Feb 2007 18:37:02 +0000 http://www.rittmanmead.com/wp2/2007/02/01/an-independent-consultant-from-march-1st-2007/#comment-2096 Mark, Congratulations and Good Luck! Mark,

Congratulations and Good Luck!

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