Scaling myself as a remote Fractional CTO
Hey,
I'm Sergio Pereira, and this is the Remote Work newsletter 👋
This is the 100th edition of this newsletter. Yay 🎉
In the last edition of this newsletter, I wrote about my Fractional CTO career, and the steep contrast between the periods without clients vs the periods with too many clients.
In fact, for a few weeks (months now) I've been so full of work that I haven't had the bandwidth to write much online. Which I miss a lot!
To be honest, writing online brings me clients, so at the moment I have this weird incentive, where I don't feel the pull to write much, since that would get me more DMs with folks interested in jumping on meetings with me to hire me. It's a huge opportunity that I'm missing out on! But at the moment my hands are full just with the clients I get from my network, and intros from existing clients and previous clients.
In fact, the Fractional CTO market is growing (I might be an example of that), but this growth is happening in the early stages of startup growth. I talk with fellow fCTOs whose target is late stage startups, and the market is shrinking there (I see the same). On the other hand, the market is exploding in pre-Seed stage and bootstrapped startups in growth stage. It's a different market than what I found a few years ago when I started. I'll write more in-depth about this in some upcoming newsletter edition.
Fact is, I have more demand than what I can supply on my own, and I've already been bringing great Engineers and CTOs to work with me on clients, or to simply offload clients to. I want to resume my writing online, which I miss, but that will result in even more clients coming my way. This is great, but only if I have a scalable way to share opportunities with folks around me (many of those, reading this newsletter right now).
Scaling myself as a service provider is not an easy task, I don't want to trade work with clients for work managing a network of people and contracts. Take no offence, but I prefer working with clients as a Fractional CTO to operational complexity.
This newsletter edition is brief because I'm not yet ready to share it all with you. Next week I'm announcing this new structure, and I'll provide you all with instructions on how to join my network, what opportunities would look like and how I'll send them to you. I'll also make sure to follow up with everyone who's already reached out to me expressing interest to work with me in this capacity.
I think this will be great, and I look forward to continue bringing great people to work with me, and fulfil this vision of working on a fractional capacity, remotely from anywhere in the world, and helping startups succeed along the way. Stay tuned!
Thanks for reading this newsletter until the end. You can read all past editions here. Make sure to share it with your friends and colleagues so they can read it too.
See you next Friday,
Sergio Pereira,
Startup CTO & Remote Work Lover
