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I am looking to see can I find a partner to set up an IT Support business in the Dublin and/or surrounding area. I am currently working in an IT area and have experience working in IT over the last number of years. I also have management experience in a large organization, having exposure to a number of business areas. This will be my first business venture.
I am looking to join with someone with a strong IT technical background (Microsoft/IP/Networking a minimum), and has experience working in the Industry but also who is very driven, competent and willing to put in the work and commitment that it would take to build a successful business. This may suite someone already acting as a sole trader and wishes to grow into something bigger.


The reason I'm looking for a partner is to share the work load and ideas and therefore have more potential to grow the business.


I see the business being run from home initially with a view to moving to premises once the business is established. This is clearly to keep initial investment at a minimum.

It will be necessary to be able to commit some small investment initially and have the ability to fund yourself during the initial couple of months before a cash flow is established. I wish to plan this over the next couple of months before leaving my current employment and starting this venture. If you may be interested in at least discussing this, and what you can bring to the table please PM.


If anyone can suggest a better forum for this type of request please let me know.

Thanks
 
Best of luck. I would say a couple of things. I see less and less of a demand for IT contractors in the Sys admin and Network admin space.

SME are moving more and more towards hosted on demand applications.

See Amazon EC2 for an example of putting your entire OS, database, storage online. Microsoft, SAP, Oracle and a number of other vendors are following suit. Server virtualisation might be a good angle to approach companies.
 
Virtualisation and centralising stuff into data centres is the way the market is moving...
 
Thanks lads for the Input. I have a number of ideas, of which I have to pursue what kind of market there is for them. I would have seen the sys admin part as the core (number of jobs) of the business and then look to other services (software installation/integration/consulting....)


Are you guys currently working for yourselfs or for another company?
 
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