Engineering Meetup: Side Projects - Fun or Business?

The summer is mostly over and people are back from holidays full of energy. While rest is crucial, as it turns out, many people like to be productive even in their free time and end up working on all kinds of side projects.

There are many reasons to work on a side project - it can be helping a certain community around you, it's a great learning opportunity, it can simply be a lot of fun, and sometimes, it can even bring some extra income on a side.

This time, we'd like to focus on that - why do people work on side projects, and can they be turned into a business?

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Speakers:
Purpose-Driven Projects by Eva Pavlikova, CEO in Česko.Digital.
We'll start with contemplating the connection between fun and business, continue with the idea of social business, and end up talking about building a company of the future - purpose first! :-)

Side Project Things You Hate but Should Know by Daniel Marchuk, Engineering Team Lead at Next Matter.
Once a side project becomes a business, you run into annoying things required by law or just needed in some other ways. Not following those can get you into trouble, so it's best to know before finding out the hard way.

From School Project to the Biggest Mind Game Website in Estonia by Marten Meikop, Director of Engineering Platform at Pipedrive.
We'll go through a story of how a side project, that started in university, became the biggest mind game site in a whole country, and how things turned into profits unexpectedly.

Each talk will be max 20 minutes long and will be followed by a Q&A.

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Agenda:
18:00 – 🍕 Doors open, food and drinks ready.
18:30 – 🔈 Talks with a few short breaks.
20:00 – 👪 Drinks and networking.
21:00 – 🍻 More fun nearby depending on a weather (sponsored by Pipedrive 🎉).

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The meetup will happen in the Pipedrive office in Karlín, Prague. The talks will start promptly at 18:30.

If you're unable to join in person, there is no need to worry! The event will also be streamed. You can watch the stream 👉 HERE 👈

Looking forward to seeing all of you! 🤗