Month: July 2014

The GGA ‘remote working’ experiment – Thoughts from a 5-man team that is trialling working collaboratively from their homes

Last week we had our monthly team strategy meeting. We have one of these every month (well duh!) and they are designed to be a transparent and honest overview of the companies successes, wins, losses, challenges and financial situation. This one was slightly different to the ones that came before it though. This time we finished Read More

Prime8 – the weekly GGA web roundup 28/7/2014

Watching the Commonwealth Games opening this week, I was taken aback by how it was a glorious celebration of all things Scottish. Brilliant display it was… and then along come Rod Stewart (born in Essex, thinks he’s Scottish) and Nicole Scherzinger (once went to an Aberdeen Angus Steakhouse for a bit). To be fair to Read More

The story of SilkThread Part 2: The secret to a happy app development project? Plan, specify, discuss. Then do it all again!

Note to the reader: This is a joint blog between GGA and our client, Labyrinth Solutions Ltd, creators of a new product called SilkThread ™. It charts the creation of this new application from a developer’s AND client’s points of view. SilkThread ™ is a compliance-based web application which helps transport operators and hauliers comply with Read More

Prime8 – the weekly GGA web roundup 21/7/14

This week Prime8 has been having his very own cabinet reshuffle. Realising that surrounding himself with rich, middle-aged monkeys didn’t appeal to a very wide demographic, he has now sacked them all and took on a broader, more diverse variety of animals as friends to, you know, look more ‘accessible’.    This was not a cynical move Read More

Prime8 – the weekly GGA web roundup 15/6/2014

Welcome to Prime8 – the weekly GGA web roundup!   Prime8 is still reeling from Tuesday’s Brazil v Germany game. Not that he actually saw any of it though. You see, he’d just had his haircut in a ‘Neymar fringe’ style and, just as the match kicked-off, a gust of wind came into the GGA office and blew Read More

The Story of SilkThread: creating Labyrinth’s new Transport Compliance app – Part 1

Note to the reader: This is a joint blog between GGA and our client, Labyrinth Solutions Ltd, creators of a new product called SilkThread ™. It charts the creation of this new application from a developer’s AND client’s points of view. SilkThread ™ is a compliance-based web application which helps transport operators and hauliers comply with Read More

Prime8 – the weekly GGA web roundup 07/7/2014

A special hello to all our new readers this week. If you bore witness to the epic cluster f**k that was our Prime8 promotional email campaign then you’ll know that getting our new friends on board was, shall we say, a tad problematic?   Our regular readers though will know that this is just business Read More

How Do Serial Entrepreneurs Think?

quickmvp: Jonathan Siegel’s built and sold multiple tech companies (RightSignature, RightCart, RightScale, & ELC Technologies, to name a few). His most recent (Exceptional) sold for 8 figures after just 18 months, without any investors. Join us as Jonathan breaks down his startup formula—the four questions he asks of every business he starts and invests in. All Read More