DISQUS

As a software company ourselves we have started out in the exact oposite way! Those of us who started the company originate from Sales, Marketing and Accounting backgrounds. We sub-contract in the best consultant for each specific job as it's won. That being said we are a reseller as opposed to developing the software ourselves, and we all have product knowledge from previous companies, I have seen a few other businesses starting up this way recently.

I thought your construction markets has slowed right down over there!

If we had property companies this size in the UK they would own whole towns!

I used to ebay quite a lot, however since moving to the country and not having a local post office, it's become too much hassle. Although I read this so obviously still keep up to date with what's going on.

Hi, Whilst I agree with what you are saying, we have just been through an excercise of finding a suitable business consultant to help us with a few areas which we lack skills and experience. To be blunt, if someone had a string of failed businesses behind them I don't think I would be very keen to follow their advice, let alone pay them for it. So whilst I agree that failure is a learing curve and it happens from time to time, in our circumstances finding someone who has been successfull in growing similar businesses is what we needed.

Steve