I am extremely pleased to being able to announce that the SourceClear software (Oxygen Security Platform and the Security Life applications) will now be built at Microsoft and that I will be joining as a full-time employee heading up the ACE Services group in Europe and product managing the software. Many people often start these [...]
About 10 months ago I left a well paid job running Foundstone in the States, headed to my holiday house in France and decided to bootstrap a security software company. I wanted to create a company that I would be proud of and the sort of company I have always wanted to work for. I have learnt [...]
First off you will notice this is the Diary entry for May and not weeks six to ten. Weekly entries were simply becoming onerous. Secondly you will notice I am still late. Nothing changes!
Bootstrapping Was Yesterday - I Want to Move Faster!
It has been a frustrating month to say the least. If I look at the big [...]
This week focuses on the frustration of small agile development projects and thinking about the competitive landscape.
Last week I posted a very simple Diary of a Startup blog that summed up exactly the week we had.
You can have software that is Fast, Cheap and Good but you can’t have all three at once.
To [...]
This blog is an update on Security LinkUp, a free application and service to manage face-to-face security groups such as local community groups, product user groups, training sessions or just plain old get together’s over a beer like CitySec. We support the notion of Communities which have Groups that hold Meetings.
If you run a security community and [...]
You can have software that is;
……..that’s right: Fast, Good and Cheap……you just can’t have all three at once.
Every week I start to write the next episode in this series I want to start with a few comments about how I wish days had 40 hours and weeks had 20 days. I think by now it’s well understood (by me and this blogs readers) that there will never be enough hour’s in a day [...]
Yes it’s Tuesday and I am manipulating the date stamp on the blog so it looks like this was posted last Friday. I told you I would be honest! Last week was incredibly busy and we learnt some good lessons.
Superhuman Activity is for Superhuman’s
.NET was the Right Choice
Tortoise and Hare Syndrome
AGILE Development and Product Management
Never Under [...]
What a week. Our first full week in the driving seat. We took yesterday off, went to Albi (hung out in a “salon du the” and gouged on fresh nougatine and hand-made chocolate) and still managed to knock up 80 + hours by Friday night.
Influencers and Interesting Early Stage Business Models
We have pitched our ideas to a number [...]
This is installment 2 of SourceClear Diary of a Startup and follows up from my initial post last week, Week 0. The first and most obvious thing you will notice is that this is being posted on Friday night, Saturday morning, Saturday afternoon, Sunday morning, Sunday afternoon. If anyone thinks startups are an excuse to [...]
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