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I went to my first Glasshouse "Second Chance Tuesday" event, I was booked in for the "Early Stage Funding Workshop" and the later event which was an interview with "Niklas Zennström who founded Kazza, Skype and Joost" (which I didn't make in the end).

When you develop for a customer you have two factors that help keep things on track. Time, and budget. More often than not, your customer wants it done yesterday, for as little as possible. That’s the nature of business. We thrive on maximizing our customers’ investments by ensuring they use technology appropriately for their requirements. This means we often strip out parts of a project if we feel they’re not adding to the end result or can’t be delivered quickly enough. We also try to use existing technology wherever possible to speed things up. All of this leads to a quick turnaround on a project and happy customers that keep coming back.

There’s a lot of work around in the web industry at the moment. Everyone I know in the industry will testify to this. This is making it very easy for freelancers to pick and choose the projects they work on. The work is plentiful and lucrative – why work for anyone in full time employment?

Essentially we don’t think that there’s any money in selling music any more, especially on a smaller indie label level. The money is in the licensing and the gigs and for that to work you need fans… So, let’s give away the music, build loyalty and let fans spend their money wisely.

We’ve had a few posts on ok cool about SimpleWeb and I’ve been asked a few times what’s it all about, so here goes.