As regular readers of this blog know, I am doing a software startup. This has been in the brew for several years and while I have been working behind the scenes holed up in my holiday house for the last five months, next week we officially start in earnest when Alex Smolen starts full-time and we [...]
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SourceClear Diary of a Startup (Week 0)
March 29, 2007IT Doesn’t Matter, Business Processes Do
February 16, 2007If you have read Nicholas Carrs IT Doesn’t Matter and Peter Finegars response called IT Doesn’t Matter But Business Processes you’ll understand what we are doing at SourceClear. You will also enjoy this article “Time to Change Change Management“.
Note to Self: Make sure every new employee gets these books in a welcome pack.
Widgets, Widgets Everywhere But Not a Real Solution in Sight
February 13, 2007Is it really the death of the security industry? Bull shitake!
I didn’t go to RSA out of choice. When I was at Charles Schwab I learnt that if I needed something then people would be more than willing come to us; and in general people would come to us long before we needed something. People would definitely come to us long before [...]
How do you raise the bar in developed markets? Innovate!
January 28, 2007I am passionate about innovation and breaking the mold. I was just watching an ad for car insurance on the TV (context: few glasses of wine shared this afternoon with a very nice and incredibally interesting ex NYC homicide copho now lives in our village in France). You know the sort of ads you see a million [...]
Inspiration to Start a Company – SourceClear is Born!
January 25, 2007Its official, SourceClear is born. Despite the plan to take at least a year off, I am strapping in and ready for the ride of my life. There are quite a few things that have inspired me to take the plunge and start-up the company;
Belief in What We are Doing
Market Demand
Art of the Start by [...]
Why Did I Leave Foundstone / McAfee?
January 25, 2007I have been getting quite a few mails from various folks asking me questions about a variety of topics related to why I left Foundstone. I decided to post the reasons here to save having to write similar emails and forgetting something in each of them.
Companies change
Family
American politics
Need a new challenge
A hot idea
MSFT and the [...]
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