Inspiration
19 posts
2017
2016
Discovering The Beauty of Tuscany in Italy
Italy is without exception my favourite place to visit and my last trip was no exception.
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Recruiting Full Stack Developer
I recently joined www.parktechnology.com as the CTO. One of the great pleasures of my role is to start hiring a technology team.
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Blog Draft Ratio: Should We Publish Everything
Recently I have had a proliferation of ideas about blog posts to write. The challenge is knowing which are really interesting to readers.
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How to Apply Sales CRM to Job Hunting
After reading a number of books on sales about using technology like Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tools to measure and qualify your sales funnel to increase…
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2015
Which is the next hot technology for full stack developers?
I am trying to compile a list of technology stacks that full stack developers are using and could in the future become part of a recognised approach like LAMP.
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Sales University
In a previous post I mentioned the sales training from Rod Sloane which I attended at Google campus.
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The SIMPLE Guide to Startup Sales from Rod Sloane @campuslondon
Today I was at @campuslondon and just happened to attend an event on sales for startups. The event was held by Rod Sloane.
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Mauritius: Day 5 - Kite Lesson #3 and Snorkelling
Today the wind was much better than forecast, reaching over 20knots and giving me more than enough power to get myself into trouble on today's lesson.
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Mauritius Day 4: Adding Surfing to Flying a Kite
Having pretty much gotten over the jet lag (and exhaustion) I woke a little earlier today so that I could go for a swim.
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Mauritius Day 2: Discovering Kite Surfing Nirvarna and Testing Snorkelling Kit
I learned from Fuerteventura that kite surfing lessons can be hard to book due to demand so I thought I should probably get myself along to sort out some lessons.
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2014
The Three P's of a Good Business Partner
There has been much written about how many co-founders are best and what the ideal number of co founders is.
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OpenHack #3
As part of trying to learn some new technology and approaches I am going to OpenHack #3 with the objective of discussing and hacking on either: Time series monitoring…
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2013
Getting Back Into Android
This week I am trying to get started on an android demo of the Click Date Love site.
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Startup Founder's Crisis of Confidence
The chances are that if you have ever tried to do something totally new to you, like starting your own company, you have had to find away of dealing with your own fear…
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Time To Train: Coaching For Saxophone
As I mentioned in a previous post, I have started to learn the Saxophone as it was a long time ambition.
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Track Day at Rockingham International Motorbike Circuit with NoLimits Track Days
This weekend for my birthday I finally managed to get along to a track day. At the last minute I managed to find a place on a NoLimits track day at www.rockingham.co.uk…
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Startup Risk Management: Mitigate the Cost of Failure
I recently had a really nice chat with some old colleagues on the subject of the 'risk of running a startup'.
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What Would You Do With 20 Million Dollars?
This month (September edition) of Wired UK focused on inspiration. I must admit that my pile of unread wired magazines was starting to get out of hand.
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