= Our collaboration and my local business

Dear Andy,

Once you said me that I will start my own business, you will help
me. I think this year is the time when I will need your support.

I decided to start my own business here in Moldova.

== Why?

I'm now 30y.o. and I took a lot from my country for free: learning,
services and I did not paid taxes for 2-3 years. My mind is telling me
that I need to return the investment. So another 30 years from my life
I want to dedicate to Moldova state, mostly to our social institutions.
I want to teach people from my area what I learned along my experience
while I was working for US companies.

Also Assembla is growing and processes are becoming slower for my ambitions, I
have a lot of ideas, but their implementation is so slow, so I must
forget about them to avoid stress.

During last 2 weeks I have a fight in my mind with ideas from both
companies. I was not able to complete my goals at Assembla and I could
not allocate enough time for my own business. I can not sleep at night
because my head is full of ideas that I can not complete. If this will
continue I can get some problems with my health. My daughters are
growing and they need more attention, but I'm giving to my family
less.

All this things breaks the harmony that helps me to create, so I
decided to stop thinking and do some actions.

== How?

I will create a LLC and I will start to grow the business. I will
support web technology here and I will promote cloud services in our country.
I have 2.66% shares of Assembla and I want to use some of them as an
investment. Also I will continue to work with you till the end of this year(2010).
I will write docs, make plans, train people, but I will code less. I
also want to avoid my participation in servers monitoring because it is causing
stress. I can make plans to improve every service failure, but I can
not implement myself. I can train and coach people to implement my
plans. Life just happens and we can not prevent all things.

You should think about how we will continue to work this year. After
please send me your suggestions. I will need a week vacation after one
month from now: 22 - 28 March. After I will setup anything here, I
can collaborate with Assembla on bounty projects starting next year. Also I can help with
manual testing, I will continue to use www.assembla.com for my
needs. I will always be glad to help you with any
suggestions, because I want to thank you that you believed in me long
time ago and allowed myself to learn and improve my skills.


I hope you can understand me ...

Best regards,

Assembla Technical leader.