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Elkhan Shabanov

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
165 total appearances

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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Elkhan Shabanov, Digicode

Because when in February 22, Russia invaded Ukraine, we already had all those methods of operation in place. And that helped us to continue operation without interruption. We actually never had any complaints from any one of our clients across the globe that they felt that somehow projects slowed down or came to complete stop. We continued operations.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Elkhan Shabanov, Digicode

In fall of 2023, Russia started targeting the Ukraine infrastructure, affecting power, internet. We already were ready with some solutions. And again, there were no issues with delivery of our service. And that's why that resilience and ability to go through serious challenges is something that I'm really proud of.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Elkhan Shabanov, Digicode

In fall of 2023, Russia started targeting the Ukraine infrastructure, affecting power, internet. We already were ready with some solutions. And again, there were no issues with delivery of our service. And that's why that resilience and ability to go through serious challenges is something that I'm really proud of.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Elkhan Shabanov, Digicode

In fall of 2023, Russia started targeting the Ukraine infrastructure, affecting power, internet. We already were ready with some solutions. And again, there were no issues with delivery of our service. And that's why that resilience and ability to go through serious challenges is something that I'm really proud of.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Elkhan Shabanov, Digicode

Any company can, any founders or any leaders in any company would probably agree with me. The most important thing, it's not product, it's not technology. The most important thing is ability to sell your product. The CEO could be the one who is selling the product. They may have a team who is selling the product.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Elkhan Shabanov, Digicode

Any company can, any founders or any leaders in any company would probably agree with me. The most important thing, it's not product, it's not technology. The most important thing is ability to sell your product. The CEO could be the one who is selling the product. They may have a team who is selling the product.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Elkhan Shabanov, Digicode

Any company can, any founders or any leaders in any company would probably agree with me. The most important thing, it's not product, it's not technology. The most important thing is ability to sell your product. The CEO could be the one who is selling the product. They may have a team who is selling the product.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Elkhan Shabanov, Digicode

At some point, we realized that the growth, organic growth that we had prior to that through referrals and personal network of partners in the company wasn't enough to support those goals that we set for ourselves. We've been growing 30-35% year over year. very steadily. But as you grow and get bigger, those 30-35% mean much more business than the year before and the year before that.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Elkhan Shabanov, Digicode

At some point, we realized that the growth, organic growth that we had prior to that through referrals and personal network of partners in the company wasn't enough to support those goals that we set for ourselves. We've been growing 30-35% year over year. very steadily. But as you grow and get bigger, those 30-35% mean much more business than the year before and the year before that.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Elkhan Shabanov, Digicode

At some point, we realized that the growth, organic growth that we had prior to that through referrals and personal network of partners in the company wasn't enough to support those goals that we set for ourselves. We've been growing 30-35% year over year. very steadily. But as you grow and get bigger, those 30-35% mean much more business than the year before and the year before that.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Elkhan Shabanov, Digicode

So we decided that we need to start building a sales team. And I think that was a big mistake because we started building a sales team before we built a marketing team. We had people who were supposed to work with the bottom of the funnel before we had somebody to fill up the top of the funnel. The way we spread that effort, we didn't succeed with hiring. sales team.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Elkhan Shabanov, Digicode

So we decided that we need to start building a sales team. And I think that was a big mistake because we started building a sales team before we built a marketing team. We had people who were supposed to work with the bottom of the funnel before we had somebody to fill up the top of the funnel. The way we spread that effort, we didn't succeed with hiring. sales team.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Elkhan Shabanov, Digicode

So we decided that we need to start building a sales team. And I think that was a big mistake because we started building a sales team before we built a marketing team. We had people who were supposed to work with the bottom of the funnel before we had somebody to fill up the top of the funnel. The way we spread that effort, we didn't succeed with hiring. sales team.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Elkhan Shabanov, Digicode

We had several people trying to sell our services and we had to go and start properly from the beginning, starting with the marketing strategy, building a marketing team, doing the most important thing ever for any company, brand awareness. There is nothing more important than that. Now we are slowly going back to that place where we will be ready to start building a large and effective sales team.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Elkhan Shabanov, Digicode

We had several people trying to sell our services and we had to go and start properly from the beginning, starting with the marketing strategy, building a marketing team, doing the most important thing ever for any company, brand awareness. There is nothing more important than that. Now we are slowly going back to that place where we will be ready to start building a large and effective sales team.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Elkhan Shabanov, Digicode

We had several people trying to sell our services and we had to go and start properly from the beginning, starting with the marketing strategy, building a marketing team, doing the most important thing ever for any company, brand awareness. There is nothing more important than that. Now we are slowly going back to that place where we will be ready to start building a large and effective sales team.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Elkhan Shabanov, Digicode

Our goal is 30-35% growth year over year. Many years ago, we've been celebrating company day. Every year in September, we were gathering in one of our locations, bringing all the employees and their families for a long weekend to celebrate company birthday.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Elkhan Shabanov, Digicode

Our goal is 30-35% growth year over year. Many years ago, we've been celebrating company day. Every year in September, we were gathering in one of our locations, bringing all the employees and their families for a long weekend to celebrate company birthday.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Elkhan Shabanov, Digicode

Our goal is 30-35% growth year over year. Many years ago, we've been celebrating company day. Every year in September, we were gathering in one of our locations, bringing all the employees and their families for a long weekend to celebrate company birthday.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Elkhan Shabanov, Digicode

i remember one of the first goals of maxim the founder he said i want to provide 100 families with a decent income which in other words you know we i wanted to reach 100 employees and when we reached that goal we we celebrated a lot it was a big celebration now we are over 400