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 London on Vimeo. In this talk I share: What we…
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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 is a set of algorithms that can apply statistics on…
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 function, into a vision of how Enterprises of the future…
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 Netscape was the trigger for the dot.com boom in the…
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 companies that we may use or partner with for our…
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 really had little value to add to the community in…
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, all of them tell you pretty much the same thing,…
The last couple of days I’ve been at Olympia in London for the Business Start-up event 2008. Every year thousands of people interested in or presently running a business descend on the event to see 100’s of exhibitors offering services and seminars with some well known UK entrepreneurs. I managed to pop in to see…
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 before you go to another developer offering you a custom…
Today I paid my second ever visit to the British Library in St. Pancras, but today I actually signed up! All you need is a picture ID (like drivers license) and a utility bill with your home address (like a phone bill). It takes 15 minutes to register as a reader, you get a card,…
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 the online communities we’ve seen such as MySpace and Facebook…
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 largest DevOps meetup group and we hosted our largest event…
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, and how it will revolutionize the Enterprise. As a result…
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 my millions in IT like Elon Musk (who’s pretty much…
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 am a Technical Founder. I started programing on a…
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 circles and got to know him personally to see what…
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 group and left early (it was really setup for beginners).…
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 SambaStream here: http://www.sambastream.com/blog. The trip to the states was excellent!…
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! Since I decided to rent out my brain, I’ve managed…
Yesterday I stumbled across “Getting Real”, a book from 37Signals, the creators of Basecamp and other small business software. You can read it online here. Its a great book, very simple and to the point and goes along very well with the presentation I put on my blog on Start-ups that rely on advertising models…
Its a fact – there are more start-ups, more investors and more entrepreneurs out there. Cheap technology, easy access to funding and a general change in our generation’s attitude to going it alone means there’s never been so much innovation happening in any point of history! I think the cheap technology has had the biggest…