Simon Bates

Looking for a blog recommendation? If you haven’t visited the Daysium blog yet, now’s a great time to check it out. We’ve recently explored key topics like the UK’s split year treatment and non-dom changes to support your compliance journey. I particularly recommend reading our Senior Advisor, Paul Aplin OBE's latest post. He delves into the fascinating role of digital footprints in tax compliance—definitely worth a read. Here’s the link to Paul’s article: https://lnkd.in/e8Ns_8ZT I’d love to hear about your favourite blogs too, so feel free to share!

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Navigating Web Hosting Options in the UK Exploring optimal web hosting can be daunting given the varied costs and options available. For those looking to establish or upgrade their digital presence, understanding these options is essential. Here's a succinct breakdown: 1. **Shared Hosting**: Perfect for startups or blogs with low visitor numbers. Costs range from £0.80 to £11.76 monthly. While it's wallet-friendly, the shared resources might slow you down. 2. **VPS Hosting**: Aims to balance cost and performance, costing between £1.00 to £19.21 monthly, presenting a step up in resource allocation and control. 3. **Dedicated Hosting**: Tops the performance chart but might not be for every wallet. Monthly costs are approximately £30 to £150, catering ideally to high-traffic sites. 4. **Cloud Hosting**: Known for flexibility, it accommodates fluctuating traffic efficiently. Though costs vary, its scalability is worth noting. 5. **Managed Hosting**: This option relieves you from technical hassles for a premium, with variable costs based on service levels. 🔑 Key takeaways when selecting your provider include uptime guarantees, customer support accessibility, scalability options, comprehensive security measures, and overall value for the cost involved. For continuity and growth, factor in additional expenses like domain registration and SSL certificates, and always be mindful of promotional versus renewal pricing. 💬 Have insights or questions about web hosting? How has your choice of hosting influenced your business operations? Share your experiences below! #WebHosting #DigitalPresence #BusinessGrowth #TechTalks

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The next chapter of our journey....

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It would be great to see you on 8th and/or 9th May and chat through how we can support you in key digital services #jumar #digitalgov

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No one needs new hardware

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At EHE Ventures, we turn ideas into global firsts. Here's how we do it: ✅ Funding Support: Get the capital you need to grow. ✅ Coaching and Mentoring: Straight-talking advice for fast growth. ✅ MVP Scoping and Tech Build: Turn your tech ideas into market-ready products. We're "Entrepreneurs Helping Entrepreneurs" and we’ve got what it takes to build and scale successful companies. 👉 Learn more about our success stories: https://hubs.li/Q02DxCzK0 #EHEVentures #TechSuccess #Entrepreneurs #Investors #AIFunding #TechInnovation #GrowthFunding

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This TechCrunch article highlights 13.5 million hours in the NHS lost due to poor IT systems. I can certainly echo that issue with my recent experiences that show a fractured and ineffective use of IT and poor IT policies. (I won't bore you with the details, but ask me directly if you want to know). I believe that better IT could be a massive opportunity for the NHS. Yes, it would mean spending to save, but there's a significant opportunity to empower individuals, while eliminating much of the NHS bureaucracy and overheads. The greatest challenge ahead is two-fold. Firstly finding someone with the vision to transform NHS IT systems. Second, the ability to execute that vision without giving away massive, poorly structured and expensive contracts to the usual suspects. Would it be unreasonable for the NHS to create an internal start-up to develop new technology? Developers in Silicon Valley can create new companies with only a few millions in investment. So, should the government fund multiple skunkworks projects and see what falls out? Who will be the NHS IT Czar capable of completing a vision of the future? https://lnkd.in/erhX6cKR

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To all my non-tech founders (and tech founders who make less-than-optimal decisions), this is definitely a session you want to attend. When fundraising, investors will dig into your contracts - and issues identified can be a dealbreaker!!!! Thanks for the tag Bhairav Patel!! #contracting #guide #startups #investable

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"The Power of Tomorrow" is something I often think about. Most of the technologies we have now will only improve, in scale, speed and function. Of course, our usage of those technologies could accelerate a technological higher human purpose, or just lead to terminal enshittification, model collapse, overall platform decay. In this article for Silicon UK I discuss, along with several industry voices, some of the technologies that will revolutionise our lives in the next decade. Thanks to Andy Shaw for getting me into this publication. https://lnkd.in/e2REciKD #quantumcomputing #edgecomputing #ai #artificialintelligence #cybersecurity #futurism

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I couldn't help noticing that the debate about UK Capital Gains Tax has been based around first time founders (who don't care about tax) and investors (who may or may not care about tax). Missing from the debate are serial founders. It's a significant blind spot because they are a very important part of creating a self-sustaining (tech) startup culture. It seems that in the general imagination, startup life is like this: 1. Have a great idea 2. Work hard at it 3. Make millions 4. Retire and get a yacht Reality is a lot more messy and convoluted than that. I'd bet that the vast majority of founders don't follow this path. So I hope that the narrative gets wiser to the nuances of the startup sector; I'd love to see the UK building a more self-sustaining tech startup sector. Post here: https://lnkd.in/euKNpjAw

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Brain Man VR's user testing event at London's Digital Catapult on Wed 28th Aug 2024 is filling up fast! If you know of any parent who might like their 13-14 year old to get involved in the Pizza Maths VR co-creation process, please send them this link with all the info: https://lnkd.in/eDwmQyHp There are spaces for three teens per hour, 12-1pm, 1-2pm and 2-3pm and in an ideal world each teen would bring two friends. What's in it for them? - They will get a crash course in entrepreneurialism and how software companies use Agile Development to create VR games. - They will get to try the latest version of Pizza Maths. - They get to give invaluable feedback, which is taken very seriously, re: what is and isn't working (this will be used to plan the work we do over the course of September) In both the school testing and in home testing we've done so far, the first thing that kids say (4/5) when they put on a headset and find themselves in the Pizza Maths restaurant is: Wow! Why learn maths the hard way when you can do it the fun way? #maths #GCSE #EdTech #Tech4Good #CoCreation #UserTesting #PizzaMaths #pizzamatics #BMVR #BrainManVR

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Two REALLY BIG things have happened since our last Birmingham AI meetup, so you don't want to miss Wednesday's. RSVP is in the comments, but here they are: First, the lastest models have been released. These thinking or reasoning models are designed to spend more time "thinking" before they respond. What does that even mean? Is this the future of generative AI? We will tell you. Second, just last week OpenAI held their DevDay. They released a ton of new features, and we'll recap this as well. Need another reason to come? Community favorites & Birmingham AI organizers Austin Senseman & Rob Dominguez are this month's presenters. So, RSVP in the comments now. As always, we'll give you a free lunch. Help move Birmingham forward. We don't want to miss this AI wave.

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We spent a day with one of our customers yesterday, and there was a very clear increase in the volume of works that are more complex in nature. Dealing with these types of works can be time consuming and stressful for planners, whilst residents are often left in the dark in regards to when work will be carried out. Sign up for our webinar on the 24th September to have a look at the new functionality in More IQ we believe can help support these challenging processes. https://lnkd.in/ehSzRVtX #repairs #fieldservice #socialhousing #housing #planningandscheduling #saas #cloud #customerexperience #routeoptimisation

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Products are acquisition gateways. A statement that has stuck with me this week after chatting with Martin from PeriscoPe this week. Did you know there is a difference between products that acquire customers and the products the customer actually purchases... Products that acquire customers are often featured in creatives and catch the attention of new customers. How do you identify them? Sort your ad creatives and look for trends in which ones acquire the most new customers. Products new customers actually purchase are often different to those highly featured across creatives. What's the secret to success in DTC? Buying small quantities of these products and going deep on the products new customers actually purchase. How do you do this? Segment your product assortment as follows: 🥇 Products featured in creatives that get views and clicks 🥈 Products that new customers purchase with high frequency 🥉 Products returning new customers purchase Now make sure you buy according to sell through not click data or you will end up with overstocks! Don't go out of stock of the products that sell or you will be losing revenue, profit and potentially market share...

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Following on from my recent article discussing 'entering an app ecosystem', I thought some further detail & context were needed. At PencilPay, our process of taking feedback from partners and users to drive feature upgrades alongside software partners like Cin7 Core is not unique, but worth a share. This micro article discusses the lifecycle of how feedback turns into features, like when fifty Cin7 users told us in interviews they wanted an easier way to accept downpayments to secure customer orders. Check out the article below. https://lnkd.in/g-4QnZ_b

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Thought for the week after IBC. The scale of the amount of time, effort and money being expended by many organisations to maintain legacy technology and approaches to delivering content to consumers is incredible. Now if only those same organisations expended the same amount of time, effort and money on leaning into the new technologies and approaches to delivering content to consumers, they might actually survive beyond the next few years and in fact they might explode with a flourish to lead those areas and build new revenue streams that put what they have had recently into shadow. Managing strategic change is critical. I just wish more would realise that they need to do it. You know were we are...

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A story as old as time... https://lnkd.in/eEX-5xWF Whether we like to believe it or not, training/upskilling at companies gets updated in waves. I don't believe or see companies/people operations/HR ignoring requests but rather searching for the right solutions, which takes time, and budget, just like other business functions. A "decent" upskilling program may stay decent for a while if it gets the job done, while some companies go from having nothing to world-class programs overnight. Bottom line: employees, managers, workforce - keep the requests coming, your company hears everything, and the great ones will take action to empower everyone. If you can't wait, I get it. Leave for a company that provides company-sponsored upskilling. #training #upskilling #learninganddevelopment #futureofwork

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