[Liverpool] Funding for projects?

[Adrian McEwen]

Paul wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone have any advice on this? 
>
> I have two software products (both for education) which I'm actively
> working on. They run under .NET which means that they're happy for
> Windows, Linux and MacOS X (as well as any other platform with
> either .NET 2.0 or mono support) - indeed, they're both being written on
> my Linux boxes so and tested by Mac and Windows users, so I know they're
> happy.
>
> The problem is that I can only do this during the evening, so
> development is slow, hideously slow at times (one of them has had no
> active development on it for about 6 weeks now) so I'm looking for some
> form of investment so that I can work on them full time. 
>
> I don't have clue one about how to go about getting this or what it
> entails. Does anyone here have an idea on what I can expect or better
> still, who I could approach?
>
>   
As Andrew said, GeekUp [1] would probably be a better place to ask such 
a question - there are quite a few of us on there running our own 
businesses and business-related topics crop up from time to time.  Or 
come along to either a GeekUp or Liverpool LUG meeting and have a chat 
about it then - I'd be happy to discuss it further with you and I'm sure 
others would chip in too.  I'm usually at both GeekUp Liverpool and 
Liverpool LUG, but drop me a line if you want to meet up and I'll make 
the extra effort to come along ;-)

Are you looking for a way to make this into a full-time job?  If so then 
it's probably worth talking to someone like Business Link [2] - they're 
good for lots of general advice about starting a business, which will 
come in handy.  They probably also know of some of the ways you could 
get funding.  If you're under 30 then the Prince's Trust might be able 
to help, and the North-West Development Agency [4] also seems to have an 
array of schemes to help businesses start in the area - I'm still trying 
to find out about them all myself and work out which ones to apply for...

Right, I'll stop throwing links at you now :-)

Adrian.

[1] http://geekup.org/
[2] http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/northwest
[3] http://www.princes-trust.org.uk/
[4] http://www.nwda.co.uk/

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