We were pleasantly surprised when Milan, CEO of AMCEF, announced that we are opening a new office in Košice. You can find out how it all went in this blog article.
MOVING ON
If a technology company stagnates, it will begin to decline. We have had clients from abroad in the past years. For example JSP Consulting, for whom we created the design and branding for the distributor of SAAS solutions. Or an application for INOUTCOOL for recording the phases of the female cycle and calculating the probability of the sex of the unborn child.
You just can't manage all the people from one place. Some of them come from other parts of Slovakia, and to concentrate all of them on just one city, which so far has been Bratislava, would be sheer nonsense.
Many professional programmers can also be found, for example, on Faculty of Management and Informatics at UNIZ or at Technical University in Košice (TUKE) at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics. We would lose a lot of smart programmers this way.
And when we learned that we were going to set up offices in eastern Slovakia from September, it was a great opportunity to expand.
ARRANGING A PLACE „WHERE THERE IS NOTHING“
My colleague Tomas started a difficult journey by searching for a new office. He found a great location where he can easily get to from all directions. As soon as he saw the small and unfurnished offices he was immediately determined. But just like in our society, democracy works here too. We took a vote and the arrangements could begin. The new address for AMCEF CREW in Košice became Hraničná 794/2 in Košice.
The bare walls and the not so inviting tiles on the floor didn't make a good impression. We met some cool people from our company, bought a carpet, some flowers, a few suitable accessories and from bare walls and an empty room we built a presentable office where clients can enter without shame and who are interested in programming a new app or website.
OUR TRAVELS ARE JUST BEGINNING
We made a few last adjustments and finally hung AMCEF logo. And interconnecting computers was a complete trifle for programmers. We kept that as icing on the cake. A few of us toasted the opening of the new offices with fragrant coffee from the new coffee machine. Afterwards, we went out for lunch and visited a few Kosice attractions.
And so ended our journey to establish new representative premises in Košice and to expand towards eastern Slovakia. Maybe it seems like a small step compared to global companies. But even such a small step can bring interesting opportunities in the future. After all, as they say, “the journey is the destination”. And ours is just beginning.
