StartUp
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2016
2015
The Three Stages of Software Design Evolution
I have had a number of conversations lately with different people on the subject of assessing job candidate competency.
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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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Web Summit 2015 with Upgrade Digital
In November this year I was lucky enough to be able to attend Web Summit to promote Upgrade Digital The web summit venue is truly vast.
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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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Estimating API / Web Traffic Load
One of the challenges facing anyone trying to capacity plan is how to estimate immediate concurrent load on the system.
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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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Travel Needs an Upgrade
Over the last year I have been working as a contract CTO and one of the clients was in the travel sector, a London based hotel chain.
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Could Using Bleeding Edge Tech be the Best Way to Attract Talent?
It seems that the ruby language was the tool of choice if you wanted to work on the new and shiny. It may be that Ruby isn't the new shiny thing though.
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Developer Goal #1 Dry-ness
DRYness may be a design pattern you have heard of. If not; we are talking about Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY).
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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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Protubuf Persistence for Fun and Profit
Note: This post is about the recently open sourced proto store project as part of a SiteMorph Open Source initiative.
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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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