DuaneJackson
23rd November 2005, 16:16
Right, firstly a disclaimer. This is a very young thought, it's not very developed yet. So if it's a bit silly, please don't think any less of me! : )
I have a reasonable sized office in central London, just over the bridge from the City. It can comfortably house 5 people. There are now only two of us here.
My core business is web development, we also offer 'premium' hosting - more as a value-added service than something we agressively push.
My focus over the next 6-12 months is going to be mainly on KashFlow, our accounting product that I'm always waffling on about.
So - I have the physical space and technical infrastructure in place to run a hosting company. But I've got no time or interest in doing so.
I've had people offer to rent the extra space from me, but neither me or my PA are comfortable with sharing the space with another business.
I'm thinking something along the lines of partnering up with a hosting company. They can use the office space, the infrastrcture, phones lines, internal network, the admin assistant/PA, etc. Obviously they'd have to be some kinf of financial arrangemnt. A fee paid to my company every month and/or a share/interest in the hosting business.
Ideally this'd be with someone that can contribute intellectually to my business and vice versa. I don't want a 50/50 partner in my current interests - been there, done that, got the T-Shirt.
Ahh, ok, just occured to me that a lot of smaller hosting companies are one-man bands that work from home and don't necassarily need any office space.
I'd be interested to hear anyones thoughts, especially from anyone in the hosting business as to whether this makes any sense.
Alternatively, please feel free to totally disregard this post as a stream of consciousness that should have died quietly before jumping from brain to keyboard.
I have a reasonable sized office in central London, just over the bridge from the City. It can comfortably house 5 people. There are now only two of us here.
My core business is web development, we also offer 'premium' hosting - more as a value-added service than something we agressively push.
My focus over the next 6-12 months is going to be mainly on KashFlow, our accounting product that I'm always waffling on about.
So - I have the physical space and technical infrastructure in place to run a hosting company. But I've got no time or interest in doing so.
I've had people offer to rent the extra space from me, but neither me or my PA are comfortable with sharing the space with another business.
I'm thinking something along the lines of partnering up with a hosting company. They can use the office space, the infrastrcture, phones lines, internal network, the admin assistant/PA, etc. Obviously they'd have to be some kinf of financial arrangemnt. A fee paid to my company every month and/or a share/interest in the hosting business.
Ideally this'd be with someone that can contribute intellectually to my business and vice versa. I don't want a 50/50 partner in my current interests - been there, done that, got the T-Shirt.
Ahh, ok, just occured to me that a lot of smaller hosting companies are one-man bands that work from home and don't necassarily need any office space.
I'd be interested to hear anyones thoughts, especially from anyone in the hosting business as to whether this makes any sense.
Alternatively, please feel free to totally disregard this post as a stream of consciousness that should have died quietly before jumping from brain to keyboard.