Steve Wilkinson

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Worked 13 years for Reuters (now Thomson Reuters) in a variety of roles, including technical support, sales, marketing and project management.

Left Reuters to start Solutionforge, a financial messaging specialist that was acquired by Danish software house SimCorp A/S in 2005. Stayed 4 years, the last two looking after their product architecture strategy.

Left SimCorp at the end of 2009 to start Cornerstone Technology, focusing on algorithmic trading and FIXatdl, releasing Atdl4net in Sept 2010.

stevew [at] cornerstonetechnology.com, or via LinkedIn.

	2,644 reputation	bio	website	cornerstonetechnology.com	visits	member for	3 years, 4 months
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Nov 23	comment	Changing Licensing model for a Software Framework to more permissive It would be helpful if you put a link on pages that mention the license terms to the actual Affero license - I couldn't find that anywhere so had to google it, which is a nuisance. In terms of alternative licenses that leave commercial exploitation a possibility, you could look at the RPL (opensource.org/licenses/rpl1.5.txt).
Nov 1	comment	Is it worth it to spend money on office space for a software start-up? Thanks Jarie - that means a lot.
Oct 25	comment	Is it worth it to spend money on office space for a software start-up? A postscript 18 months down the line: I stand by my comments about geting out of the house, but I found that I was spending less than 5 days a month in the office (as I was working on client site and visiting prospects much of the time). In the end, I converted my garage (which is a separate building from my house), and now have a great working environment with no commute, saving myself several thousand a year. If that's an option for you, I can recommend it.
Aug 22	comment	what should go in a Memorandum of Association? Thom - I see what you mean - the form is confusing. The information I included above is from the book which seems to be pretty comprehensive - if you want to handle this all yourself I would recommend getting a copy. Sorry not to be able to offer more definitive info.
Aug 21	comment	what should go in a Memorandum of Association? Thom - I double-checked and you were right, so I've edited my answer to correct the misinformation. In short, you don't need a separate memorandum of association any more to form a UK company.
Aug 21	revised	what should go in a Memorandum of Association? Corrected the errors in the previous posting
Aug 20	answered	what should go in a Memorandum of Association?
Aug 4	answered	The mint.com of small business (Indinero and the like)
Jul 19	comment	Are co-founders employees? Do they need to be paid minimum wage? The term 'minimum wage' suggests you might be in Europe - pls can you give more info on your location as this obviously affects the answer.
Jul 14	revised	Ideas for outsourcing to a virtual assistant added 92 characters in body
Jul 14	comment	Where to promote a travelers network site? Claudio - for a start, put something about your firm in your profile!
Jul 14	answered	Is outsourced infrastructure bad for investors?
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Jul 10	comment	a place to call work! Whilst not an exact duplicate, this is very similar to this question: answers.onstartups.com/questions/7022/… - some useful insights there too.