Tag: bootstrapdiaries

  • Mining business execs….

    So what criteria do you go for? I’ve been racking my brain over the last 24 hours (and I forgot my notebook which didn’t help). Going back to the eHarmony way of doing things. There’s a ton of spade work already done over many years before they ev…

  • Finding business partners the eHarmony way.

    So much for the quiet long weekend. I got into a fairly long Twitter conversation with Nichola Bates (@growsalesonline), Chris McCabe (@maxer08), Jackie McGonigle (@whatsonni), Lyra McKee (@LyraMcKee) and Mary McKenna (@MMaryMcKenna) about somethi…

  • The JFDI Chronicles – My little black book.

    I suppose everyone has “a book”, it might be a journal or a word document. It’s the place where everything goes into. For me I have an A4 sketch book, it’s coffee stained and a bit bashed around the edges, not great to look at it but it contains e…

  • To boost retail commercial landlords will have to think different.

    I’ve been doing a lot of thinking over the weekend (a dangerous move according to some near and dear to me). Though I’ve been thinking beyond anything online and more into the retail realm. Now I walk through Derry everyday and look at the amount …

  • The Bootstrap Diaries: The first 12 months…..

    It seems hard to believe that on the 27th May it will be one year to the day when the Datasentiment seed was really sewn. On that day with my Nokia E51 in hand I showed a really crude mock up of an app. Little did I know what I was letting myself …

  • Self employed or startup in Northern or Southern Ireland? smeople.com

    Just a quick heads up, there’s a new website for self employed, small business and startups called Smeople. Founded by Rob Marr it’s there to bring like minded entreprenuer type folk together to share and help each other on. Sounds like a plan, ju…

  • Don’t be afraid to shoot high, very high.

    This isn’t just a Northern Ireland thing, it seems to be a connected Great Britain mentality. No one wants to see you succeed. More than that no one wants you to make a comfortable fortune either. I don’t hear very often, “well I hope you make f**…

  • Bootstrap diaries: It’s about profit.

    The Twitter stories about when they’ll turn profit is starting to ring hollow. At this rate it may never turn profit (perhaps it should have sold out to Facebook when it had the chance). At the start Biz and Evan didn’t have to really worry about …

  • Bootstrap Diaries: Knowledge is cheap.

    Very cheap in fact. Obviously there’s the Google/Bing/(Name your other favourite search engine here). When it comes to knowledge for Datasentiment I had a bit of a head start from 2002 when I worked for a data mining company. I learned an awful lo…

  • Bootstrap diaries: Will work anywhere…..

    In the final throws of the launch product being ready it’s been all (my) hands on deck, so here’s today’s schedule. 6.00am – Coffee and fire up the laptop. 8.00 am – Get myself looking presentable (I think there should be a book called, “Dressing …