Forbes September 11, 2019
Sam Hussain cold called hundreds of care homes in August of 2017 trying to persuade one to try out his new business, but to no avail.
“Nobody wanted to take a risk on a baby business,” he recalls. “But then we got a break.”
A care home on the south coast of England finally said they would give Hussain’s fledgling business, an app for care homes to digitalize information, a go.
“After a week of running it in parallel with their existing paper records, they ditched paper altogether,” says Hussain.
Hussain put all his savings into getting a prototype developed, and then raised an angel investment round.
“It started when a care home owner found us online, started using us...