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 ‘start-up’
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…
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,…
Over Christmas, I discovered a great book recommended on Amazon by Peter Evans-Greenwood, The New Instability. The book coherently brings together a lot of areas I’m interested in, primarily how globalization and new technology are forcing Enterprises to change the way they are organized and…
When I was a teenager I remember lying in my grandma’s back garden in Damascus reading “Mining the Sky” by John S. Lewi for several days and since then I’ve been hooked on starting my own company to mine asteroids and the moon after making…
With the recent acquisition of Instagram for a ridiculous $1bil. (and potentially worth up to $3bil. if FaceBook IPOs at $100bil. later this year for the share exchange they took) you can’t help wondering if this is the trigger before the boom, the same way…
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.…
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…
I’ve spent the last couple of days reading a lot about Steve Jobs since he passed away. For someone I’ve never met I do feel sad about losing him, I wish I’d ‘made it sooner so I could rub shoulders with him in the same…