Thanks to all our clients, friends and partners, you’ve made 2011 a fantastic year. Enjoy the holidays and we’ll see you all in...

I had a shocking start to my Monday. I received a phone call from Tracy saying that our fingerprint recognition system was down and the team couldn’t get into the NML office. When we relocated from the Upper East Side’s ground floor to the 6th floor our finger print recognition system had journeyed sans the override switch, an oversight on the suppliers part, but I’d signed off on the job so I must accept the blame for this. I arrived...

It’s 6.45am and I’m standing on NML’s main balcony at Upper East Side watching as the sun rises from behind the mountains.  As a homecomer who spent 12 years in London, I never take for granted just how truly blessed I am to live in such a beautiful part of the world.  This morning the sunrise is a particularly spectacular one, turning the sky into hues of red and orange.  I try to capture it using the camera on my cellphone, it...

Last week I sat on a panel with Patrick Kayton (Cognician), Vincent Maher (Motribe), Daniel Guasco (Groupon SA) and Daniel Schwartzkopff (FSMS) at the Social Media World Forum. One of the topics that came up was that of venture capital (VC). I mentioned that I didn’t particularly like VC, and given that I only had about 1 minute to answer, my justification was that it would put me on a growth path that I wouldn’t feel comfortable with....

Okay, time to get some IP off my chest and let “the resistance” conquer my “lizard brain”. Build something you need and others will need it too, right? I must lose thousands to the tax man because I’m too lazy to keep a log book of all my business trips. So, the juniors at New Media Labs have built an iPhone application that logs your business trips to a web site (http://triplogger.info) via a web service. At the end of the...

I’ve been acting as NML’s MD, Sales Person, Software Architect (occasionally), developer (even more occasionally) and a bunch of other roles for two and a half years now [typical entrepreneur stuff]. NML has always been a lean outfit made up almost entirely of software developers. If there was one role I’ve wanted to fill during this time it has been the one of sales person. I honestly think I didn’t fill the role simply because I...