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
Posts tagged ‘opinion’
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is like Fusion, its always 30 years away. The dream of building computers that are as intelligent (if not more) than we are is still a long way off, but there have been some recent changes that make several experts in the…
My last blog talked about the effect of Big Data on the future of Enterprise. When it comes to generating insights and correlations on data, a branch of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), is a key tool in the Data Scientist’s arsenal. Machine Learning…
This blog is a follow up to my previous blog on The New Instability and the Future of Enterprise, and was inspired by Daniel Hulme’s General Assembly class on Big Data to Big Wisdom. There’s a lot of hype at the moment about Big Data,…
As some people know, I’m half Syrian, and my grandma, Uncle, Aunts, and a few of my cousins all live in Damascus. My family are Christian too. I was in Damascus only 3 weeks before everything kicked off in 2011, and I was really surprised…
Although I lived through the Thatcher years, I didn’t ‘live’ through the Thatcher years, I was too young to understand or remember all the things she did while in power. So my respect for her is based on what I learned about her from books,…
I have a goal to replace all my books and magazines with digital copies as soon as they become available. I already have most of my paper books listed on Amazon Marketplace (you can check out my sellers profile here if you want to buy…
Today I rediscovered an old blog on The Death of the Business Founder by Ben Yoskovitz and as it tied in with some discussions I was having earlier this week with other start-up founders in London, I thought I’d add a few thoughts on this.…
Yesterday I read (BBC News Article) that the UK Government is announcing a ‘great’ new program to get everyone back on the housing ladder again. This includes: Mortgages of up to 95% of the value of new homes to be offered with government underwriting part…
I’m currently in San Fransisco stopping for a few days to meet with a bunch of companies ahead of my talk next week at Alfresco DevCon in San Diego. It’s great to be back and I’ve been meeting with loads of smart start-ups, entrepreneurs and…
Last night I was talking with my business partner from SambaStream, Ale, about start-up communities. He went to a big start-up event in Rio (Brazil) for his new start-up Kioos and was complaining about all the ‘chaff’ there with a lot of wannabe entrepreneurs who…
