“Our international entrepreneurial journey”
We launched a small business in a garage in Indonesia, and we are now operating offices on 4 continents. Join us to follow our entrepreneurial journey across the world
Each week we’ll write about some of these topics:
Our targets, results, challenges
Our backstories and business learnings
Some business and IT best practices
If you have any specific questions, please ask me!
“Our mission to become the #1 Odoo partner”
Port Cities was born in Indonesia in 2015 to help companies to use Odoo [a business software] in the archipelago.
We then expanded to 10 countries and raised our ambition. In this newsletter, we share our “journey to become the #1 Odoo partner” worldwide.
If a friend or colleague wants to improve their business with software (ERP, e-commerce, operations, …), we could probably help: https://portcities.net/
True stories worth many MBAs
Over the last 7 years, we got 100s of unique stories: growing superfast, selling and pitching to an Indonesian tiny business one day and to a large corporation the day after, setting ups all business departments without institutional investors or experience, etc. But also learned to survive recessions, recover from our own business failure, and execute lay-off plans to avoid bankruptcy.
It is worth many MBAs for us, and we are trying to give it back to the community.
We hope that anyone interested in IT and business could enjoy our stories and learn from them.
Jump in the shoes of a Port Cities co-founder
Through our weekly sharing, we hope you’ll feel what it is to develop a business like Port Cities. We’ll share:
The emotional rollercoaster of running a fast-growing business
Our current challenges or KPIs, and how we plan to improve them.
Management principles, IT tools, and other tricks that work for us.
We need you
Writing a good newsletter is not easy.
But our mission to become the #1 Odoo partner is extremely hard, as there are a lot of great companies out there.
Sharing our progress with the community will force us to give the best of ourselves, but we also hope to get encouragement, feedback, and advice from you.
We could not succeed without you.
About the authors
Hi,
I’m Gaspard Dessy, CEO and co-founder of Port Cities.
I’m from Belgium and also lived in Indonesia, Mexico, and Japan. Besides work, I like to do sports and read books.
My two only unique strengths are that I don’t give up and I’m a bit weird.
Other authors will be added later.
