UKStartups

A year on from leaving IRIS & Staffology, I’ve recently announced my New Thing on LinkedIn, in collaboration with Chai Deshpande—someone I’ve had the pleasure of working with, on and off, for over a decade.

There are over a million CIS subcontractors in the UK, all paid under a specific set of rules known as the Construction Industry Scheme (CIS).
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In 2018, five years after exiting KashFlow, I found myself advising several SaaS companies. Among their needs was a requirement for a web-based payroll solution with a truly comprehensive API—something that I was surprised to discover didn’t seem to exist.

Driven by a mix of curiosity and boredom one afternoon, I decided to have a go myself. How hard could it be? It didn’t matter if it went nowhere – I was just curious as to what the challenges were.

Eighteen months later, I looked up from my laptop having created and launched Staffology Saas Payroll and grown a customer base spanning from small accounting firms to large tech platforms.
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Hello! It’s been a while – two years in fact – since I last posted here.

There have been a few random things that I wanted to waffle about so will hopefully find time to make some more substantive posts over the coming months.
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I may have mentioned once or twice how important I think it is to keep your investors updated on how your business is progressing. Read more »

I often speak to founders who have a new SME-focussed SaaS product they want to bring to market, or an existing solution they want to grow.

Understandably many of them want to tap in to the installed base of existing and well-established vendors serving the same market and want to know how much commission they should be paying to make it worthwhile. Read more »

So your product is ready for prime time. The bugs are ironed out, the website is updated and your beta testers are happy.

Now it’s time to market it and get to eleventy gajillion users. Read more »

Due to my background, providing opportunities for prisoners is something I’m keen on. There are a lot of potential entrepreneurs in there.

I’m currently working on something around teaching prisoners skills relevant to the digital economy but was struggling for a name for the CIC we’re setting up. So I asked Twitter. Read more »

It’s 2 years this month since I sold KashFlow. It’s been a quite couple of years. Moving house, running Cat 6 cables everywhere, playing with home automation/IoT, spending a lot of time with my girls, learning to chill a bit and be less impatient. Read more »

If you’re a developer you’ll probably regularly find yourself using phrases like “Does that make sense?” Or show that you understand someone by saying “That makes sense”. You’re hard wired for logic. Read more »