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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A couple of weeks ago I did a talk at Hacker News London on the Story of Dataloop.IO and how we got our initial customers and traction using Customer Development. David Gideh – Using Customer Development to get Traction in a Crowded Space from HN…
In the past few weeks, we closed our seed funding round at Dataloop.IO, moved to new offices, hired 2 more people and did some PR to announce our funding round. In parallel our meetup group, DevOps Exchange, has now grown to become the worlds 2nd…
I spent some time with some new business entrepreneurs this morning at a seminar on Raising Revenues by Prevista. I went there in the hope of learning some new ideas for my own start-up, but found out that I was several chapters ahead of the…
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,…
Finally I’ve managed to find the time to complete my consulting website to support my freelancing business, and put it under the subdomain consulting.davidgildeh.com (you can also click ‘Consulting’ above to get to it.) No longer am I a freelance web developer without a website!…
Recently I’ve met a number of start-ups who’ve spent lots of time and money building a custom solution for their new website or web application! Not everyone knows about web technology the way a Geek like me does, so hopefully I’ll catch you in time…
Recently I’ve met a lot of start-ups asking me about offshoring because of my freelancing model. For those of you who aren’t aware of what I do, part time I freelance for start-ups and other companies developing Drupal sites (because Drupal is amazing and can…
First of all I want to share this excellent book I picked up a few months ago in the airport on my way to India, “Smart Start-ups” by David Silver of the Angel capital firm Santa Fe Group. While the book is really about how…
After over one year travelling for my work (S. Korea, US, Thailand, Dubai, Hong Kong, US again and now India!!!) by myself I’ve got used to going to a new place with no friends or contacts and having to go out and make friends or…
