Celebrio - About doing what we believe in!

I often forget that Celebrio is not just me, that it doesn't belong only to me and that I can't decide everything on my own.

Celebrio feels like it's a part of me. This wednesday I was in a car with three other entrepreneurs from Czech Republic and one of them gave the others a question whether it is only him or it is normal for us to wake up in the morning thinking already about our projects and go sleep again thinking of them. We all answered by laughing and someone added: "I'm always suprissed by all the places and situations I am able to think about it." And I guess that it should be like that for all entrepreneurs, our work is our passion and we do it because it is amazing like having a fire inside you that burns you and pushes you forward. And doing this is crazy and people often think that you are crazy (insane and stupid). And it's certainly not about the money, for a long time (and maybe forever) you are getting paid bad and the number of working hours is insane. For me Celebrio is passion.

The team

It is in my personality that I am focused on me, I am egocentric and egoistic. I know it and although I try hard to control my ego, it's part of me, but maybe the future me will have more wisdom and modesty. Have I mentioned that Celebrio is awesome (It is awesome, we use the Awesomium framework for that reason ;-)?

So the team... The team is something that I am really proud of and something that keeps suprising me. I kind of don't even know how they happend or why they happend but I am happy that they happend to be a part of Celebrio and they are Celebrio. Nowadays we have 13 people in our Czech Celebrio team and they work on the project for free.

For free

When I look at other startup companies, all of them bind everyone in the project by promising future company shares (in the end you may get many company founders). Usually all of the project memebers are students and Celebrio is also purely students' startup. At the beginning, we said that me and Peter are the future founders, that we are not promising any shares and we may reward you somehow in the future if the project is successful. You might think that they just loughed but they answer was that they are doing it anyway just to learn something and to do what they believe in. We became known for not paying anyone to work with us and when I was accepting a new person I just informed: "The salary is none but on the other hand you get a lot of work."

Students are the future

I am proud that we were chosing people who are better then me. I understood the project and the web technology in it better than anyone (at least at the beginning, now I am getting lost in some of the technology as I don't do the development anymore) and we were getting people with no real experience but with great potential and talent.  I think that most of the people on our team are more intelligent than me and it makes me happy, they believed in me and Peter and we believed in them. Right now there is no student at the university that I would want to have on the team and I dont have him or her.

We believe in Celebrio

I always loved and believed in Celebrio but I knew that I am crazy, so it always makes me suprised when someone from the team shows one's loyalty and believe in the company.

Celebrio team is a second family to me. I have a company of friends and I hope thay feel that they are Celebrio.

Celebrio Software s.r.o.

Celebrio is moving from a students project into fully commercial company and hopefuly it will get there soon. Celebrio is going to have three founders: Me, Peter and Pavel who was in the project from the start.

Others will be rewarded for they work as we promised although it is not by becoming founders and having shares. I would like the company to be able to pay them for they work as soon as possible.

I hope that Celebrio will still be a family of amazing friends.