Defining Moment

There was no one ‘eureka’ moment for me. The idea for my business built up casually, based on my observations of the technology sector in the North East and what people were doing. I noticed two big faults in how a lot of technology companies were run… read more

Lifestyle Story

Interestingly, things have only got better since I started my own business. Sure, I make a lesser wage than I originally used to, but I actually have less stress and more satisfaction than I used to have in employment. It’s a common myth these days that… read more

Mistake To Avoid

Having spent my career working for corporate clients and in companies who were obsessed with PR stunts, I fell into the all-too predictable trap of equating success to employee growth. Sure, successful businesses will grow over time, but we weren’t… read more

Mistake To Avoid

We focussed too much on R&D work in the initial year, to the extent that we turned away a lot of small customers. We were banking on some really big projects coming through, feeling safe in our perceived knowledge that one or two big projects would… read more

Secret

It takes a lot of things to be a successful entrepreneur, but being stubborn, single minded, loud, passionate and talkative seems to be a great start. I guess the only other criteria that has not been mentioned much (or I haven’t seen it talked about),… read more

Pearl Of Wisdom

I know that this has been said many times before, but if you’re thinking about starting a business, I would say, “Just do it!” The best time to start that business is “now!” If you try and talk yourself out of it, you will always find reasons not to do… read more

Success

Our biggest success to this date has been to successfully release our primary product, fixx. We had a lot of hurdles and went through an interesting first year with release being pushed back month after month. But we are really proud of the end product… read more

Aspiration

I wanted to create a software business that valued its employees as its Intellectual Property and real assets. The best kept secret in the software industry is that computer code is not worth much. Given enough money and brains, a majority of computer… read more

Support Story

We didn’t really turn to anyone directly for support in setting up. We did talk to a few people from Business Link and to our bank manager. But I had a huge ego problem where I was adamant that I knew what was needed for my business better than anyone… read more