SaaS Entrepreneur. CEO/Founder SambaStream, acquired by Alfresco where I became Director of Cloud Services launching their Enterprise Cloud Business. Now CEO/Founder of Dataloop.IO, a monitoring tool for DevOps
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Sad news today, as the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, died today from a cardiac arrest. To say MJ had an impact on my life is an understatement. When I was a kid, my next door neighbour, Ann, introduced us to Michael Jackson after we…
Every now and again, a book comes along and you think “WOW! I wish I’d read this before!”. This is one of those books. “The Four Steps to the Epiphany” by Steve Gary Blank. While I’ve read a lot of books about start-ups and entrepreneurship,…
I’ve been away for the past 2 weeks to the states, and I’ve been away from this blog since January, too busy with my start-up SambaStream to concentrate on it properly! In case you were wondering you can read some blogs I’ve been doing for…
Last week I did a presentation on how to use Google Analytics to improve your website’s effectiveness in marketing your product at the Drupal for Marketing conference. I used our own website, SambaStream.com as an example of how we’ve used Analytics to monitor the traffic…
Finally! The end of a bad chapter, and the beginning of a new Obama era! Today Barack Obama was inaugurated as the 44th president of the United States of America, and literally millions (maybe Billions), including myself, watched it on TV around the world. Obama…
I just noticed some new pictures on FaceBook with my good friends in Amman, Jordan. They were involved in an Aid Gaza Souq (Market) and some friends took some photos. I hope they raised a lot of money for Gaza after the tragic events bought…
Happy New Year! Welcome to 2009, the year the media would have you believe is going to be miserable for everyone. As for me, I feel extremely positive for the next year. I began it at Big Ben with my Uncle and Cousin on Westminster…
Today I found out about a very interesting competition on YouTube, the YouTube Symphony Orchestra. Tan Dun, the Chinese composer who wrote the soundtrack for Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, has composed a piece which you can download as PDF sheet music for each instrument and…
So much has happened in the world recently, and unfortunately the best part when George Bush got shoes thrown at him today in Iraq (see the YouTube video below) didn’t work out so well and missed his head. Bush was his usual smug self pleased…
As a member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology I applied this year to become a Chartered Engineer (which allows me to put CEng at the end of my name). To pass I had to do a huge application form, followed by an interview,…
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