Author
James Doyle
Exited founder, investor and owner of multiple businesses across recruitment and staffing.
James Doyle is an investor and exited founder who has built, bought and sold businesses, and who now backs and advises recruitment and staffing founders in the United States and the United Kingdom.
He writes the funding and margin guidance on this site because those are the two things that decide whether a staffing business survives its first two years: the gap between paying contractors and being paid, and the true gross margin left once burden is counted honestly.
Everything published here is written or reviewed from the operator's side of the table — what a funder will actually underwrite, what a buyer actually pays for, and what a founder can realistically get done in a quarter.
Writes about
- —Staffing and recruitment agency funding
- —Invoice factoring and payroll funding
- —Gross margin, bill rates and burden
- —Investor readiness and fundraising
- —Agency sale and exit preparation
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