I love start-ups !
June 9, 2010 – 7:42 pmI love everything about start-ups…the anticipation, feverish activity, hard work, late nights and most of all the risk. The energy of a start-up is contagious, infectious and addictive. And it is because of this that I joined StormMQ.
When I got involved in February the company had just started to get the private beta of its service out to a few people. Since then it has been a roller coaster that has seen me and Raph travel all around the UK and Ireland meeting customers, partners and future staff. Some of the highlights have included:
- We moved from private beta to fully launched service today!
- We have signed up three trade partners
- an application dev firm << official announcement to follow
- an outsourced IT firm << official announcement to follow
- an outsourced workflow company<< official announcement to follow
- Registered with RIPE to get our own /22 range … that’s four class C networks!
- Bought a lorry load of equipment and put it into two different data centres
- And the icing on the cake…signed up our first customer << official announcement to follow
We now have four full time staff (we plan to take on another four or five soon) and a day at the office can comprise of sales meetings, staff interviews, server builds (a few pics of our new DELL r810′s below), supplier negotiation and general strategy….every day brings new and exciting problems, challenges and joys. Long let it continue!
