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Surround yourself with skilled people

Some advice I was given recently was “Don’t do it all yourself”, a great piece of advice I think every business owner should take to heart. Which is why when it comes to dealing with law or accounts it’s wise to enlist the help of a pro.

As brothers, David and I are generally very trusting with a shared optimistic outlook on life and people. We find life is just nicer that way.

But with the occasional unscrupulous shark about and a service that can be used anywhere in the world it’s time to call in the legal team. And lovely local lawyers Mincoffs have stepped up to the mark.

Paul King (1DayLater), Antony Hall (Mincoffs) and David King (1DayLater)

So this past week we’ve been making sure that the 1DayLater terms and conditions, privacy policy and reseller agreements are all top notch. Legal banter has been flying around like you wouldn’t believe.

Why go to so much trouble and expense? Well the way that we collect and protect our users data is very important to us, as you might imagine. We take every possible care to make sure that information remains private and secure at all times. So these documents are just as much for our customers benefit as they are for ours!

Antony Hall, Mathew Foster and the rest of the Mincoffs team come highly recommended.

1DayLater phone & desktop applications

Some months ago we surveyed our beloved 1DayLater users to find out what the most-wanted features were. A mobile phone application came out on top, with a desktop application not far behind.

We’ve decided to kill these two particular birds with one stone. And enlisted the help of some local pro’s to help us do it.

Twisted Studio are a digital design house operating from the heart of Teesside’s Digital City. They are versed in all the latest creative and interactive technologies, and whats more, they’re big on data visualisation.

Now here at 1DayLater we LOVE coming up with cool and innovative ways of displaying data. So as you might imagine they’ve already won us over! But apart from that we’d really urge you to use their services because they’re a great bunch.

Here’s what we can expect for 1DayLater over the next month or so:

1) Phone applications for the following platforms:

• Android
• i-phone
• Blackberry
• N-Series

2) ‘Adobe air’ cross platform desktop application
(serving as a handy reminder to log your time, money and mileage)

Assuming everything goes as planned we should see these start to emerge in February, with the desktop application coming first. I can’t wait to give our customers something really special as I get the feeling they’re going to dazzle us.

Paul

Techcrunch Europe and other great exposure

January has been a phenominal month in terms of press for 1DayLater. Almost overnight we’ve started to attract a swash of Beta sign ups from across the waters. And like proud parents we’d like to share with you some of the great reviews 1DayLater has had.

1DayLater - A feisty time-tracking solution from the North East of England

Techcrunch Europe is ranked as the most influential tech blog in the UK - by information site Wikio

“1DayLater - Keep track of your business”

Useful Tools sift through the abundance of technologies available to you, and help you find the most useful web tools and apps.

“1DayLater - Ensuring the right amount is invoiced”

Killer Startups review 15+ startups a day. The public votes on which one they think will be ‘a killer’

“1DayLater - Keeping track of your time, money and business miles”

A daily dose of web 2.0

Sunderland Software Ventures 3

Helping to drive forward the software industry in our region

We’ve had a small request from our good friends at Sunderland Software City. They have asked us to spread the word of their new Software Ventures program.

“The program itself is designed to help encourage the creation of high-growth software based businesses.”

“It is aimed at individuals who have the seed of a software related idea, a full blown idea or are looking to buy a software related business”

David and I were lucky to be a part of the very first software ventures program at the start of our 1DayLater development. These guys have been with us every step of the way and their program has taught us invaluable lessons in finance, protecting our IP, marketing, sales and so on.

We can both vouch that the program is delivered at a very high standard, and the network we have built up there has been an incredible asset to our company.

The brothers King (left) on the pilot software ventures course

Software Ventures are accepting applications now for their program which is due to start on the 16th February. The course will run for 7 weeks, one evening a week. Not only is it fully subsidised for successful applicants but you also get the chance to pitch your idea to a panel of investors on the last day just as we did!

If you have an idea for a software related business we’d really urge you to get signed up for this.