First of all, before you do anything, look for a niche in the market that demands certain software and skills that are you willing to offer based on your expertise.
Unless you have a serious amount of contacts it's most likely not to pay off for you. You may get lucky and pick up a couple of contracts here and there, but nothing that can take the both of you to a self sufficient business.
I, like yourself am in the same predicament, however, I also realize that no matter how much time, effort and so forth I put into marketing, developing a solution and making myself available, there is noone willing to buy. In addition, you must be able to overachieve any and all your competitors, which you need to do some careful and intensive searching.
If you don't have something that is revolutionary, meaning something new and exciting that companies can use to save time, money and have an excellent return on what they purchase from you, I don't see a bright future. There is such a flood in IT resources and specifically software, it's difficult to compete, let alone come up with an idea that hasn't already been developed to some capacity and is not freely available.
If I were you, I would consider taking part time university courses for an MBA, or something relative to your field, because a developer with 3 years of experience is not likely to take off now a days.
It's hard critism and facts which many of us are faced with daily, and unfortunately, there is little we can do right now.
If you are serious, look into putting together a business plan and talking with some venture capital companies that can help sponsor your venture. It's not likely that you can gain any serious amount of business without first getting some money muscle. After all, who will want to buy a solution at version 0.01;)
Good luck.
Hope things work out for you.
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First of all, before you do anything, look for a niche in the market that demands certain software and skills that are you willing to offer based on your expertise. ;)
Unless you have a serious amount of contacts it's most likely not to pay off for you. You may get lucky and pick up a couple of contracts here and there, but nothing that can take the both of you to a self sufficient business.
I, like yourself am in the same predicament, however, I also realize that no matter how much time, effort and so forth I put into marketing, developing a solution and making myself available, there is noone willing to buy. In addition, you must be able to overachieve any and all your competitors, which you need to do some careful and intensive searching.
If you don't have something that is revolutionary, meaning something new and exciting that companies can use to save time, money and have an excellent return on what they purchase from you, I don't see a bright future. There is such a flood in IT resources and specifically software, it's difficult to compete, let alone come up with an idea that hasn't already been developed to some capacity and is not freely available.
If I were you, I would consider taking part time university courses for an MBA, or something relative to your field, because a developer with 3 years of experience is not likely to take off now a days.
It's hard critism and facts which many of us are faced with daily, and unfortunately, there is little we can do right now.
If you are serious, look into putting together a business plan and talking with some venture capital companies that can help sponsor your venture. It's not likely that you can gain any serious amount of business without first getting some money muscle. After all, who will want to buy a solution at version 0.01
Good luck.
Hope things work out for you.