Matthew

Developer and designer. Has an idea and needs a co-founder.

Ipswich, UKOn FounderCloud since 2020

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About

Over 17 years of architecting, designing, and developing websites and software systems. Proficient in understanding business ideas and concepts, enabling maximum returns on investments. Key strengths include being able to accurately and quickly assess both the overall and specific business needs and drill down to the levels of detail are required to help develop concepts into sophisticated technical solutions. I previously ran a web design company in Hartlepool with two other business partners before selling the business to them and moving to Ipswich. I am now looking for a business partner, ideally someone based in England, with good connections and sales experience to team up with me.

What Matthew is building

The idea

I have already started my company, in the first week I was awarded a 3 month contract worth over £20,000. I appreciate I can't do everything myself so I am looking for someone to join my company to help find the next project. The idea person will already have an established network of contacts. Your involvement in the business will primarily be to drive the sales cycle from prospect identification to initial customer engagement and ultimately closing the sale. Once there is enough capital to expand the company your job will be to then build a sales team and manage them. Ideally, within the first year we will pass the £100,000 mark but I'm hoping to achieve more.

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Answers in the Nest

Why does it seem EVERYONE is looking for a CTO?“If everyone is looking for a CTO point me in the right direction as the last time I witnessed a CEO hired there were people lining up to be interviewed because the number of CTO positions appears to be so scarce they are few and far between from what I can see.”I've been advertising for a Sales Manager but the response rate is low, how can I improve it?“Thanks for your response Brett. At the moment I'm not limiting myself to any particular industry, I've been around various job boards and placed job adverts and the response rate has been low, as in I've posted 7 job adverts and had 3 responses. I think at the moment the problem is I'm not really sure how to approach this because in the past when I've done hiring I've always gone to recruitment agencies that specialise in the area I'm recruiting for but it seems either I'm not using the right search terms in Google or there genuinely aren't many recruitment agencies around that specialise in sales. The role is for a Sales Manager, so I would be putting the responsibility onto the Sales Manager to decide on the strategy to use, I don't have any experience in this area so it seems prudent to bring someone onboard who does. What I was hoping for was to find someone who has connections that can then be approached to get some contracts signed, and then once we've tried that avenue we can then start to look at other options such as what you've listed. My aim is to have a team that can scale so that as a company we can grow. I'm open to getting a consultancy company in who can help guide me in building a sales team too or a contractor who can get one off the ground for me.”