On Jan 18, 4:28pm, Leo Lapworth wrote:
> Ok, it's all a pipedream.. but what a nice one.
It sounds like an excellent idea. In fact, I've even got as far as
writing a (fledgling) business plan for such a venture based around
Template Toolkit-ish web development, support and consultancy. It's
something that Simon Matthews and I have been talking about for a couple
of years, but never really quite got around to taking the plunge. I
was about to jump.... but work related improvments of the last few
weeks have pushed it back onto the back burner.
Now, what would it take to convince you that there are nicer places to
work than central London? Guildford, for example, is quite wonderful
and only a train ride away from the smoke... :-)=
On the matter of funding, I have a friend who works for Goldman Sachs
who offered to put me in touch with VC somewhere in the range of 2 - 10m.
No favours, no guarantees, but at least a foot in the door and the offer
of waving a business plan under the noses of the right kind of people.
Of course, you might argue that GS != Right Kind of People :-)
But like others, I'm not convinced that VC is the way to go unless you
really have to. Having said that, if you want to start big and grow
big quickly, I can't see a way to do that without significant moolah up
front. Maybe that means "really have to"?
One consideration worth playing on is that good Perl people are hard
to come by. As a scarce resource, we might be able to convince backers
that a solid collection of guru and demi-guru level Perl people represents
a mighty design/development/consultancy force which could quickly corner
a large chunk of the market.
I'd love to come to the meeting and hear the ideas, but I've done my
trip to London for this month :-)
A
Pipe dreamer.
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