Jay Shah

Me: "I'll give that public speaking thing a try in 2024." Also me: Getting stuck right into the big games apparently... I'll be talking at BigDataLdn this year. It's a solid mix of hype and anxiety, Hanxiety if you will! But mostly hype. #BigDataLDN #data #dataengineering #dataleadership

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TL;DR: A new event for tech startup founders and professionals in London 🚀 As you know, I've been running Tech Startups in the Pub for a few years now, together with a group of wonderful, smart, and handsome co-organisers (because flattery goes a long way!). Pedro Jurado and I are now trying something new: coming to the office and spending a day working alongside other tech startup founders and professionals. We teamed up with The Workers' League to have our first session of the T-Break Club on Friday 20th September. Here's what you need to do: 1. Join the T-Break Club community through the Epic Spaces platform. 2. Book your day pass through the platform. 3. Come and work from the co-working space from 9am. 4. Meet new people, share ideas, and have meaningful conversations during breaks. Whether you’re a founder, developer, or involved in anything tech-related, this is your chance to collaborate and network with like-minded people in a relaxed and productive setting. No pressure, just great conversations and ideas. Want to meet even more people? At 6pm, after this session is over, we're going to Tech Startups in the Pub (I'll post about it separately). The deets: 📅 When: Friday, 20th September from 9am to 5.30pm. 📍 Where: The Workers' League, 6-8 Bonhill St, London EC2A 4BX (near Liverpool Street, Moorgate, and Old Street stations). 🔗 How: Go to https://lnkd.in/ewDfyMrk , join the community, and book your day pass (it's £12, charged by The Workers' League). See you there!

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Myself and others at Crafted will be talking at #DenverStartupWeek sharing strategies to adapt to the SaaS rollercoaster 🎢 of the past 18 months. In our talk we're planning to discuss: 🔍 Business Context - WTF is going on in SaaS right now, we'll share some curated data 📊 Why the Business Context matters - Companies are struggling with profitability and growth curves in an era of scarcity 🛠️ How this impacts Product Development teams working hard to do more with less 🎯 What teams can do about it to take their destiny back - delighting both a company’s users AND their boards. Now more than ever, #focus is key and we will share a #framework and #stories to help teams #build what matters. We are community driven and open to feedback - please help us tailor the talk for maximum impact! 👉 What resonates? 👉 What would you like to hear about that is not represented above? Register for our talk here: https://lnkd.in/gkxzTCKJ

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Calling all Tech Start-Ups... Have you ever struggled to know when to hire a Designer full time vs when to use a contractor? If so, we've put together a FREE report you might be interested in. We conducted in-depth interviews with eight leaders who had worked for a start-up in their career. These leaders provided detailed information about their companies’ design hiring strategies, ROI measurement methods, and factors influencing their hiring decisions. We've compiled our findings in a free report called 'Design Hiring Strategies in Tech Start-Ups Report' and with the link in the comments. What will you get from this report: - Understand optimal design hiring strategies - Discover industry insights - Make informed hiring decisions We'd love to know if any tech Founders / CEOs out there find this useful, so please do let us know. — Thank you to the following people for speaking to me 🙏 Milimo Banji Ankur Sharma Leeanna Pitt Philip Reynolds Talia King Philip Shuldham-Legh ✍️ DJ aka David Jarvis Jason Knight #tech #startUps #founders #CEOs #hiring

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🌟Big news from Flexiana🌟 We’re kicking off some awesome new Clojure projects this year,, and we still have experienced Clojure teams ready to take on more. Here’s the deal: 🛠 Our teams are packed with senior devs who’ve been working with Clojure for 5–10 years. We’re not just about writing code—we deliver clean, maintainable solutions tailored to your needs. 🌐 We’ve got expertise in web apps, functional programming, and even integrating Clojure with Python for AI projects. 🔧 We’re all about using the best tools for the job, drawing from a tech stack that spans 25+ programming languages (yes, we’re nerds like that). Why work with us? ✅ You’ll be working with senior-only teams—no juniors learning on the job here! ✅ We use agile methods, so we can pivot and adapt with you as needed. ✅ We’ve nailed projects in fintech, ERPs, web apps, mobile—you name it. If you’ve got a Clojure project in mind or just want to chat about ideas, let’s talk! We’d love to help you bring your vision to life. For a glimpse into our team's experience, check out this video:

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How to be everywhere at once: A busy couple of weeks for ZeroCodeLabs It's been an incredibly productive and exciting couple of weeks for the team at ZeroCodeLabs, and I'm excited to share how we've been able to juggle multiple key events, partnerships and product updates simultaneously without losing any of our momentum. ✨ Finalists at the #EMERGE Startup Competition We were picked from dozens of promising startups to present on the Social Apps & Wellness stage. We showed how our solution connects local merchants and expat professionals through blockchain-powered social commerce. It was great pitching alongside other innovators, and the feedback from the judging panel showed we're building something game-changing. We're grateful for the recognition of our technology's innovation and are excited about what's next! 🌏 Token 2049 in Singapore While all that was going on, our BD lead, Olga Isaeva, was in Singapore at #TOKEN2049, where she met up with some great potential partners. It's really encouraging to see the interest that Presence Protocol is getting from the global Web3 space. 🚀 Sanad and Ayman at CV Summit in Zug And there's more! This week Sanad Karkar, JD and Ayman Khattar are at the #CVSummit in Zug, Switzerland. Sanad has already pitched our vision and is gearing up for a panel discussion on the future of Web3 apps in the consumer space. This is just a heads-up – we'll be sharing more updates on the CV Summit outcomes soon. 📱 Major Updates to Our Mobile Presence App Despite all this travel, Stan Lagun and the development team has kept up the pace of building the Presence App and Protocol infrastructure. We've also released major updates to both the iOS and Android versions of the Presence app, making the Android app fully functional and on par with our flagship iOS version. These updates are based directly on feedback from our community of consumers and merchants, and we're confident they will significantly increase user engagement. 🏢 Merchant Growth & Campaign Results in Dubai On top of that, we've been running acquisition and community campaigns in Dubai, and we've hit another important milestone with the number of merchants actively using the app. The offers being created and redeemed on the platform are exactly what we hoped for, which shows that our merchant acquisition strategy is really effective. 🔗 New Chapter with Polygon We're excited to share that a new chapter in our partnership with Polygon Labs is on the horizon. We can't yet share the details, but we're thrilled about the progress we've made and the milestones we've achieved. Stay tuned for more! More details are coming soon, but one thing is clear: we're scaling Presence Protocol on all fronts and couldn't be more excited about the progress we're making. Thanks to the team for being everywhere at once and keeping the momentum going! 💪 #Web3 #PresenceProtocol #ZeroCodeLabs #Token2049 #CVSummit #EmergeCompetition #Blockchain #Polygonlabs

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A couple of recent improvements to Konquest for us to shout about. Our flexible yet accessible calculation engine is already our pride and joy, but we just keep making it better. Firstly, we recently added support for bi-monthly and semi-annual schemes, ideal for those kicker schemes where you want to close out the year strong and have consultants make up for a shaky start to the year. https://lnkd.in/emeMvYUP Then today, we have just shipped support for schemes which are calculated into any number of weeks from (and back from) a specified start date. Want to run three week schemes starting on the 2nd Wednesday of the year - now you can with Konquest 🦍 https://lnkd.in/eeC_KM9G We're currently hard at work on the next set of enhancements, this time looking at ways you can penalise blank months and missed thresholds in a variety of different ways. Feel your current commission structure is not getting the best out of your teams? There's never been a better time to speak to us. #commissionaccomplished

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The original timeline for the Legal tool we're building with AI was roughly 4-6 weeks with a lot of uncertainty on the technical feasibility (we relied on API's that were haphazard at best). On talking to more customers however, we realised that there is a slightly different problem we can tackle that no one is building for, and requires zero AI integration initially. We would also be able to build the prototype in roughly a week. While there is still value in the original version of the product we'd envisioned, this seemed like the quickest route to validate what we're building and get revenue. Wish us luck 🤞 #startup #founder #entrepreneur

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Praying to the altar of holy DATA to make any decision in an organization is an insidious disease. It feels like the right thing to do, but when you get down to it, the data is just there to cover your ass if you're wrong. Speed matters, weeks and months matter, and non-measurables also matter. Good leadership isn't about doing what the data dashboards tell you to do. It's understanding that sometimes you have to make gut decisions FAST, and being willing to eat the result, whatever may come. Great leaders have great instincts, they act them on quickly, and they take full accountability for the results.

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📢 Introducing Safer Screentime 📢 Last year I took time away from working a 9-5 to start a company and see if I could build something useful 🚀 I'm delighted to share Safer Screentime with you. Safer makes it simple to set healthy boundaries around screentime for any families using iPhones and iPads 🫶 Download it from the apple store here  https://lnkd.in/gpZyKYHj If you run Apple iPhones and don't have a screentime app give it a try - it will make your lives and your kids' lives 1% better. And it's free! 🙌 📴 Safer runs on parent and child phones and makes it easy to interactively monitor screentime, set boundaries and turn apps off in real-time 📴 My family has been running it for a year, so it has been battle-hardened by my teenage son 💥 At first he found ways to get around it but not any more 😈 I'll post about the journey of starting a company and getting an app live another day - for now give it a try ❤️ https://lnkd.in/gpZyKYHj

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Highly recommend this course for anyone who wants to wrangle, ahem I mean develop, people brilliantly!

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It takes 34 seconds to create an AI interviewer and start interviewing. As a product team we've spent a tonne of energy on making Ribbon as intuitive as possible. Any recruitment team (or really anyone who wants to interview!) can get setup and interview in <1 min. Join teams like Tactable, Katalyze AI and 100+ others finding top talent with Ribbon

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I gave a talk in London a little while ago, where I asked a room full of ~120 front-end devs if they were using feature flags. About 40% raised their hands. This an improvement over previous years but still pretty standard. I see a lot of front-end devs thinking about feature flags as just turning on and off UI. But what I wanted to share more than anything was how flags remove common development bottlenecks, separating deployments from releases and actually making releases a lot less painful. I helped write a guide for Flagsmith about this recently. We also cover release strategies that help reduce risk, something a lot of us are thinking about right now: https://lnkd.in/epPiexJC

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You cannot market your app out of the gutter! I see a lot of advice going around like “Don’t write code, do marketing” This advice is aimed at developer-founders, who spend 99% building something and then maybe 1% marketing it. The 99-1 proportion is obviously wrong, but it is rarely possible to fix things by just spending more time on marketing. Often when founders have jumped into coding right away, and therefore the problem/solution is so much off that no standalone marketing effort can help. In this cases the best approach is to take a few steps back and start doing discovery around the problem and solution space. Talk to people who did not convert or who converted and churned. Once you understand what the customers really need and are willing to pay for, you can change your solution (or build a new product). Reaching the goal will then be a joint effort with marketing and development!

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My comment to depressing read on possible deregulation: We cannot beat the US and China on deregulation. European companies don’t have such a hard time living up to our laws as eg American. Therefore, all govs, organisations, companies and individuals should start buying European whenever possible. This - EU first - principle should always count more than price. This would help innovation and scaling, our self-sovereignty and values, job and tax income.

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Steal my senior leadership growth hack. At the start of the year, with more front than Brighton, I told my manager I'm capable of more. But I've got some gaps. And I'm not sure how to fill them. We put our thinking caps on and struck upon an idea that's turning out to be genius. I'm very strong operationally. I'm reasonably strong technically. I'm OK on product. I'm weakest on business. To shine at the senior leadership level in tech at Google you need to be strong in tech, product and business. All three. My operational strength is a bonus and sets me apart. It's my USP. The idea we came up with is designed to build my strength in business and product, anchored of course in tech. Here's how it works: 1️⃣ Every month this year, my manager sets me a challenge 2️⃣ I rise to the challenge and report back within the month 3️⃣ My manager reviews my findings, we have a great discussion, then she: - pushes me to go deeper if I missed a bit - sets me a new monthly challenge I think she's rather enjoying coming up with the challenges, and she seems really keen to read and discuss my write up each time. She's a great manager ☺️ I really enjoy the research, chats with various colleagues, the learning & reflection. I look forward to sharing back my findings with her too. The *most* fun bit is the deeply insightful discussion that follows and the wicked giggle we both have when she's setting me my next challenge! ➡️ January's challenge was to go and learn the infrastructure, serving and business model of ads ➡️ February's challenge was to go and learn YouTube's business verticals & how they make money ➡️ March's challenge was to go and learn about digital Trust & Safety ➡️ April's challenge will be revealed to me next week after I submit March's findings...! And on and on we'll go, every month this year. By January 2025 I'll: ➡️ Be adding way more leadership value ➡️ Have increased my credibility and sphere of influence ➡️ Be more confident contributing to discussions I didnt previously feel equipped to share a strong opinion in ➡️ Be able to spot opportunities to make a bigger, more sophisticated impact And, dare I say it, I will have manoeuvred into a much stronger position to be considered for promotion. In the most challenging and constrained time in Google's history to be promoted. Especially to senior leadership level. These days accomplishing Director-level promo is down to more factors than impact alone. So it may never happen for me. But, if that's the case, I'm damn sure it won't be because I'm not capable. And if I'm satisfied that's the case, I'll be happy either way. So, if you've ever wondered how to next level yourself from middle management to senior leadership, pinch my hack. It's way more enjoyable than I've probably made it sound here. And I can already feel the shift in myself. It's making a real difference and opening my eyes in useful and relevant ways. You're welcome! (And thanks boss 😊)

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Every month our N-able Head Nerds provide a huge amount of practical and insightful content in the shape of Bootcamps and Office Hours. This content is specifically created to help you build your business and make the most of the products you use. And they are designed for ANY #MSP....you don't need to be an N-able partner to register and participant in ANY #HeadNerd event. As we close out May and welcome June, it brings us a new round of Boot Camps and Office Hours! Highlights: ☑ This month there is a renewed focus on lead gen and equipping your team with the skills with my “Cracking the Code to Lead Generation” series taking place June 6th and June 12th ☑ I am also co-presenting a BRAND NEW boot camp with Head Security Nerd Lewis Pope focused on N-able MDR called: “Winning Strategies for Pricing and Selling N‑able MDR” on June 26th ☑ Lewis Pope returns with “Cyber Liability Insurance: Planning for Success” on June 20th ☑ Joe Ferla shares more about Cloud Commander with both an intro session and deep dive into the platform! But these are just the highlights. Check out our latest blog that outlines the complete training schedule for June. Links in Comments.

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Back in the city… again. I literally weren’t kidding when I said Central London is our second home. This time round we have an internal AI event at Google followed by some commercial and advisory meetings. 💼 Super excited for this new phase of Mindora We are only a few weeks out from the deployment of the MVP version of our Wellbeing Management AI for HR and we are now driving early customer conversations and paving the path for our GTM strategy. Going from 0-1 is one of the most difficult things to do as a Founder. The next most difficult thing is executing. 💯 We are focused, but enjoying every moment of the process. Besides, this isn’t our first rodeo, 🤠 we have made a bunch of mistakes in the past - so efficiency and effectiveness is at the heart of everything that we do. Here’s to an amazing day. Sergio Giannone #Mindora #HealthConsciousLeadership

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Founders are always asking how we're so much faster than development agencies - 2 week's isn't exactly industry standard for a fully functioning MVP... When we say we deliver MVPs quickly, it’s not just loads of developers working around the clock. It all stems from our internal tech we’ve developed and refined to get founders to market faster without cutting corners. Without being too specific, we have a few key tools: - Project Setup Wizard: This allows our developers to generate a product in it's basic form in a matter of hours. Something that traditionally takes weeks. - Custom Co-Pilot: Yes, we use AI (of course). Enabling our developers to rapidly generate functionality with full context of the project and our codebase - Flexible components: not as innovative as our other tools but still powerful We’re obsessed with removing roadblocks, so instead of spending time on foundational elements, we get to focus on what really makes your MVP unique. It’s tech specifically designed to help founders launch sooner, iterate faster, and maximise every bit of feedback for the next round. Our goal is simple: deliver robust MVPs that get you to market quickly and let you keep building without missing a beat.

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