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One year ago I started playing with some Python code to create our server monitoring tool, Server Density, and formed the company in April 2009 (on the 6th, specifically to coincide with the day the tax year starts), but how much did it actually cost me?

Originally published on the Server Density blog. Every year Seedcamp runs an event for 20 companies selected from applications and interviews of hundreds to participate in a week of mentoring followed by an investment pitch, and subsequent seed investment in ~5 companies.

Originally published on the Server Density blog. As you may have read in the tech media yesterday (The Guardian, TechCrunch), Boxed Ice was one of 6 winners of Seedcamp Week 2009.

Originally published on the Server Density Blog. One of the widely anticipated features of the new iPhone OS 3.

Originally published on the Server Density blog. Update 23 Oct 2010: A discussion about the value of shortened field names has generated a lot of traffic to this post over the last 24 hours.

Originally published on the Server Density blog. Our server monitoring product, Server Density, launched into private beta on 9th March 2009, was made public on 6th April 2009 and we are now pleased to announce that the product has now officially launched as a commercial product.

Originally published on the Server Density blog. I met Dave Stone at DrinkTank last night and talking about usability, he said something along the lines of “if you need to explain something to users in writing then it’s not usable”.

Originally published on the Server Density blog. There are quite a few options for taking online payments from customers but the best way is to get a merchant account and use a 3rd party processor to handle everything.

Originally published on the Server Density blog. We are pleased to have been chosen as a top 20 finalist from over 100 startups from Europe to attend Mini Seedcamp London 2009.

Originally published on the Server Density blog. When you’re heavily involved with a product that you’ve been developing, you expect that as soon as you launch it, millions of people will immediately try it out.