Category: Startups
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Interview: how to manage stress levels as a founder
Originally published as an interview on uktech.news. At Tech City News, we’re always keen to shine a light on those who make up the UK’s thriving technology community. This week, we spoke with David Mytton, founder and CEO, Server Density, a SaaS-based product that helps users manage and monitor their infrastructure. …
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The golden age of SaaS
There’s no longer any good reason to run your own software. Everything you need to run your business is available as a service. Even core software components like databases and queues are now available through IaaS like Amazon’s RDS and Google’s pub/sub. When you buy something as a service, it will be…
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A golden age for British start-ups
Originally written for the Financial Times. The UK’s golden age is often referred to as being some time in the past when things were better, cheaper and easier. But as far as starting a business is concerned, I believe that time is now. When I started my first company in…
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Five Reasons Britain May Be The Best Place To Start A Company In 2012
Originally written for Forbes. All around the world, governments are spending time and money to figure out the best way to attract the attention of entrepreneurs. New startups are a great way to stimulate the economy because they are seen as innovative and exciting, create new jobs and are in…
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How much does it cost to start a tech company?
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?
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Boxed Ice’s application to Mini Seedcamp London 2009
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. However, they also run a series of smaller 1 day…
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Barclays hates tech startups
Originally published on the Server Density blog. With the beta of our server monitoring application, Server Density, coming to an end, over the last few weeks I have been in contact with various banks in the UK to arrange a merchant account so that we can take payment for the service.…
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Mini Seedcamp London 2009 Finalist
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. Mini Seedcamp is a Y Combinator style one day event that is running on Monday (20th April): Mini Seedcamp London will be bringing together…
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Running a successful beta – trickle effect and phone feedback
Feedback is the ultimate goal. The strategy to achieving it is to have a small number of users you manually increase over time.