Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Spare some change?

D-Student Productions continues to evolve...

It's been a straight-to-VHS sketch comedy crew, to a YouTube video crew, to a party crew, to near-death, and now it's bigger than ever, as a real company spanning multiple chapters across the world. One thing that's always been consistent... It's still D-Student.

"Thaaaat's D-Student"

"Ah, it's just D-Student"

What does that mean, exactly?

D-Student has a certain way things are done, for better or worse. We're cheap. We're doing a million things at once. It takes forever to complete one project. We have fun. It never feels like we're at work. It's never about the money.

Real companies need to make money to survive. As we continue to grow, we're faced with the situation that we have more work, more projects, in more areas than we have hands and time to do it. We've delegated eagerly to anyone and everyone willing to pitch in... from small tasks, to even starting up entire new chapters. The result is a resounding groan of frustration. You don't need talent, money, brains, experience or good looks to succeed in D-Student. Just transportation and reliability. We'll train anybody willing to put in the time. The plans are all laid out, the thinking done.

We know millions of people volunteer at other organizations and are held to high standards of responsibility. Yea... the word "responsible" was just typed in a D-Student blog. It has been embraced from the top, but the trickle is slow. People liked the days where they could just show up to the D-Student house and get drunk on any given night. Those days aren't exactly over, but the house is getting full and we need a larger place to do our work... and that means we have to have a steady income, if even meager.

How will we take that next step?

A lot will be changing next year... and it will be for the better. We will be a lot more things in addition to the D-Student everybody knows and loves/hates.

This blog is just the beginning.

-Aaron

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