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I thought that the older I got my youthful anger would dissipate. Well it did. Sort of. I don t think it ever really dissappeared. It s just that time sped up so much that for long periods of time it became difficult to keep track of. To keep that fire alive, inspiration needs to flow. It s [ ]
Every developer knows that heart sinking moment when you find out your website is down or when you inadvertently perform an action in the production db rather than the development one. Unfortunately I was that guy this week though thankfully nothing quite so catastrophic. Our digital signage platform www.neonburn.com has a nifty feature which allows you to [ ]
I don t know if anyone around here has changed their utilities companies recently? I imagine that the vast majority of people, well probably everyone that will ever read this, use some sort of comparison site to find out what the best deal is for them. On these sites I noticed that there is often a [ ]
So a few weeks ago I attended the Scottish National Economic Forum in Edinburgh. The focus was on building Scotland as a digital nation with the sub topic of cyber crime. Now, I ll hold my hand up and say that I wasn t expecting much and with the 2.5 hour journey to get there expectations had [ ]
We ve all heard the startup war stories , usually in the form of how hurdles were overcome to smash it or the gallant loser that could do nothing to stop his business falter. Now when reading these things I ve always found it hard to empathise, because at the end of the day, I m just not actually [ ]
If there is one thing that is likely to unsteady the ship as a sole founder is lack of enthusiasm. No one there to push you on. No one to confide in. No one to help when things are just not working. All these things can lead you down the dark path. I [ ]
Why is getting over the line so difficult? When developing software and someone asks you how are you getting on, you always inevitably hear it s nearly done, just this, this and this to do. Next week this, this and this are the exact same things. Your first thought is then to say do we really [ ]
One of the main concerns that you have as a single founder is forcing yourself to meet goals on a week to week (or daily) basis. Obviously the easiest way to achieve your goals (assuming you have taken the right step and set some) is to have customers pushing and pressing you for action. On [ ]
So it s been a while now since my last post and also since I decided to go solo and start out on business for myself. I m not 100% sure that the former is due to the latter but it most definitely has had an impact. Writing posts is actually a good healthy habit that I [ ]
Jesus. How could I be so stupid. Have you ever done that thing? You know? That thing! It sort of rolls like this. You re creating something, it doesn t matter what it is, you ve read all the books, been practising your art for years, you re ready to create something big. You start building it, so utterly [ ]