Archive for the 'Startup' Category

SourceClear Diary of a Startup - Week 6

May 15, 2007

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 [...]

SourceClear Diary of a Startup - Week5

May 7, 2007

You can have software that is;
 
 

 

……..that’s right: Fast, Good and Cheap……you just can’t have all three at once.

SourceClear Diary of a Startup Week 4

May 1, 2007

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 [...]

SourceClear Diary of a Startup - Week 2

April 15, 2007

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 [...]

SourceClear Diary of a Startup (Week 0)

March 29, 2007

 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 [...]

Top Eight Tips for Hiring (Information Security Industry or Otherwise)

March 10, 2007

Welcome to SourceClear Alex Smolen, SourceClear’s new Chief Software Architect.  SourceClear today officially doubled its full-time employees! You thought I was kidding about this early stage self-funded startup didn’t you! Alex is leaving Foundstone and moving to France for a period while we build the prototype. Well both move back to the USA and setup the [...]

Top Ten Tips for Managing Technical Security Folks

March 8, 2007

I don’t claim to be a brilliant manager at all. I like to think I am a pretty good leader but thats a different skill than managing. I am far from a perfect person. In fact it’s reflecting on my mistakes of managing in the past and contemplating what I will do better next time that [...]

Inspirational Startup Photos

February 13, 2007

Max Levchin Slide show….
I guess I better take a few sharpish

Web 2.0 meets Business 2.0 - Take That!

February 11, 2007

I am going to move Rob Howards blog into my “Cool Business” folder from my “Development Stuff” folder.
This public response to Jobsters announcement that they are going to be “free” coming from the new kid on the block is like an upper cut to the chin! I think the new kids are gonna be king someday!
http://weblogs.asp.net/rhoward/archive/2007/02/09/jobster-runs-out-of-ideas-so-now-they-are-free.aspx

Best Ad at RSA

February 10, 2007

From Emergent Chaos Blog

Brilliant! Sheer brilliant!