Blog | Archive for June, 2010
BBC broadcasts “Start Up Stories” film on Trampoline
By Charles Armstrong | Monday, June 28th, 2010
Today the BBC broadcast a seven-minute film on Trampoline as part of their Start Up Stories strand. The film covers Trampoline’s beginnings, our first experiences hiring and raising finance, and what advice we’d give to entrepreneurs thinking of starting their own company.
To my delight the BBC even managed to find some footage of the island of St Agnes which they included in the film! A total of ten businesses were selected for Start Up Stories including such luminaries as Autonomy, Slide and Zappos so Trampoline is in great company.
The film concludes with my advice to aspiring entrepreneurs:
“Don’t put things off by going to study for an MBA. Just dive in and start your business. You’ll soon discover if it’s what you really want to do.”
You can view the whole film on the BBC website.
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Looking for a Flash developer for visualisation project
By Charles Armstrong | Monday, June 14th, 2010
We’re looking for a freelance Flash developer to work with us to create the next generation of SONAR CRM’s breathtaking visualisation of customer relationships. Ideally we’d like someone who will come and work with us here in the Trampery but we’ll consider remote collaborators too. We’re ready to kick off immediately. Please pass on the word to anyone you know who might be interested.Required experience
ActionScript 3
Desirable experience
Flare Framework
Functional programming paradigm
Adobe Flex
General knowledge of visual data presentation (layouts, transitions, graphs, plots etc)
JavaScript
If you’re interested
Send a mail to incoming@trampolinesystems.com with details of your experience and links to relevant projects you’ve worked on.
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Trampoline awarded UK trademark for “SONAR”
By Charles Armstrong | Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
We’ve just received confirmation that Trampoline’s application for a UK trademark on the “SONAR” name has now completed the approval process and has been officially registered. This is great news for Trampoline and our customers, guaranteeing clarity in the market. We started using the SONAR brand in 2006 when it originally started life as an acronym for SOcial Networks And Relevance.At the end of 2008 we were disturbed to discover that IBM was promoting their own network analysis technology under the “SONAR” name. We contacted IBM pointing out that this was bound to create confusion with Trampoline’s products. They said their product was only at a development stage and wouldn’t necessarily be brought to market under that name, but they stopped short of making a commitment.
Since then we’ve been working to secure the UK trademark for SONAR. We’re delighted this has now been granted. Meanwhile we’re proceeding with trademark filings in other territories.
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