Looking for a career advice - Risky or Reasonable?

Hi fellow redditors,

Currently I'm working as a Business Development Director in a private company providing full software engineering education (PHP, Java, JavaScript, Python and C#). Unlike Udemy and other platforms we are having a full in-depth education focused on certain programming languages. You've seen many people turn to Software Engineering, because it's the future, right? Yeah, that's true. Basically we've helped more than 80 000 people in the last 5 years start their career path as Junior Developers in various companies. My role as a BDD is related to finding new partnering companies looking for developers, negotiating deals, organisation of corporate trainings and everything related with services for the business.

The company is operating in a very particular European market (I can share more info if you're interested), but has plans of growing globally, because we have 100% digital model.

I've been on the position long enough that I've reached my limit and no longer have interest in it. The owners of the company don't want to lose me, but in the same time have nothing to offer me as their employee. I'm sure many of you have been in the same situation.

And we've started discussion about me creating a separate company and gaining exclusive rights on offering a very specific service globally:

White-label of the educational platform and the full product life cycle. What does that mean:

1. All the educational content /developed in the last 5 years/ for the different programming languages /average duration to graduate is between 10-14 months depending on the student/.
2. Our fully developed Software /SaaS/ including: Examinations, Projects, Presentations, Videos.
3. Full Software Support.
4. On-boarding for Trainers.

Basically if any school, university, institution or a company wants to include software development as part of their educational program we can provide the full solution. All they'll need to do is bring the potential trainers and use our system. No need to create from scratch a program.

My question is simple: Does it sound meaningful to you? Do you think that educators will benefit and will have interest in developing such a kind of partnerships?

So far my focus has been Software Companies and I am not very familiar with the educational sector.

Let me know what you think. Should I agree on such a proposition and is there a value to such a service?

Submitted May 21, 2020 at 08:21AM by Tiamatisus https://ift.tt/2Tt9pCL