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looking to start a Software Development company

Dec 10, 2008 3:47 AM

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matrixfive 3 posts since
Dec 8, 2008

Hi ,

I'm a 28 year old Software Engineer from Sri Lanka who has 7+ years of
industry experience. Don't know whether u guys know where Sri Lanka is.

Well if u check the world map Sri Lanka is the small Island below India.

For more than one year I'm thinking of starting my own software
development company. In Sri Lanka we have talented software engineers.
therefore so many Software development companies in the world have set
up their R & D centers in Sri Lanka. It's really cheap to hire
engineers from Sri Lanka.

I'm looking to set up a software outsourcing company and to do so I
need partners who can provide software development projects to it.

I have team professionals who has diverse expertise in
the IT field. For example there are Java experts, .NET experts, Oracle
experts, Software QA engineers and also there is one who is a business
analyst.

So there won't be any difficulty in doing projects using different technologies.

Another thing I won't to know from the forum is that whether there
is a way in which I can get projects. It would be best if I can find a
software company who wants to outsource there work to lower their cost.
If it's a long term contract it would be good.

Please kindly advice me on this.

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DomainDiva 1,731 posts since
Oct 10, 2007

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1. Re: looking to start a Software Development company Dec 10, 2008 10:46 AM

Diverse experience means a client base. Get each engineer to make a list of companies they have worked for. Make up a brochure and start making phone calls. Send your brochures to the people youi contact by phone along with a thank you note for the telephone conversation.

Get a website up and running and do some internet marketing and SEO.

Good luck, great people are hard to find.

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matrixfive 3 posts since
Dec 8, 2008

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2. Re: looking to start a Software Development company Dec 11, 2008 2:43 AM

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Thank you for the advice.

well currently I'm working on the site and
hoping to include all the details about us in the site.

IS there any
other way of contacting future clients other than giving them a phone call. I
mean like I web site or something similar to it. ??

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HigherProfits 19 posts since
Oct 10, 2007

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3. Re: looking to start a Software Development company Dec 11, 2008 6:24 AM

in response to: matrixfive

Send me an email and I'll help you out. There's a lot of different styles of business that need software development. You can contact me at:

dave [at] higherprofitsmarketing.com

I look forward to hearing from you.

Dave

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DomainDiva 1,731 posts since
Oct 10, 2007

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4. Re: looking to start a Software Development company Dec 11, 2008 8:09 AM

in response to: matrixfive

It's the technology age not the age of rude. Future customers need phone calls. Even in my business where 90% of business is transacted through emails and attachments, that 10% phone & face contact cements the relationship.

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intechspecial 1,457 posts since
Jan 6, 2008

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5. Re: looking to start a Software Development company Dec 11, 2008 9:18 AM

Welcome to the community.

Do you have a website?

If so please post on this thread.

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BrassJmes 35 posts since
Dec 8, 2008

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6. Re: looking to start a Software Development company Dec 11, 2008 11:02 AM

Hi matrixfive,
If you're looking to advertise your business, and what you're offering is expert outsourcing, then what I would suggest is except for marketing your business, you should also market your experts' past works
You should invest a decent part of your site to the personal profiles and past experience of your staff. After all, they are what you're selling
That's my opinion anyway.

If you would be inclined to use an existing service. or just want to see examples, you can check out www.lookuppage.com and view their business profiles. That's more or less what I'm talking about

Hope that helped

Wish you the best of luck with your business

Jmes

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matrixfive 3 posts since
Dec 8, 2008

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7. Re: looking to start a Software Development company Dec 16, 2008 3:00 AM

in response to: BrassJmes

Hi All,

Thanks you very much for all your
comments.

Dave : I sent you a mail

DomainDiva : Yes I agree. I have to contact my
future customers. If it's a face to face contact it would be good. but I'm from
Sri Lanka and financially I really can't offered to meet my future clients in
person. That's why I'm thinking whether there is any other way of contacting
the customers.

Well about my web site, Currently I'm developing it
and I'm hoping to have it as soon as possible. Also my team profile and the
services that I'm hoping to offer would be in the site.

I would appreciate your comments.

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jmudalige 1 posts since
Apr 8, 2009

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8. Re: looking to start a Software Development company Apr 8, 2009 4:36 PM

in response to: matrixfive

Hello MatrixFive,
I am a sri lankan living in the US (Minnesota) and I am in the process of starting a deveopment company specializing in technologies such as .net (C#, C++, VB) and server side languages such as ASP.net and PHP as well as RDBMS such as SQL and ORACLE.
My plan is to recruit software developers/engineers in sri lanka and to do the development and I will work here to find clients and contracts. I just graduated from the university of minnesota with a degree in Management information systems and I have also worked for corporate iT in a fortune 500 company. I do have substantial experience in project management and the SDLC. If you are still interested in speaking more about this email me at jmudalige@yahoo.com. I am planning to come back to Sri Lanka towards the end of this year to set up the company there. I am in the mean time building a website and business plan to get financing for this project.

Thanks,
Joel Mudalige

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