Dan Jacobs, interim CTO & Product Owner based in London

Product focused CTO - former startup founder - business and product innovator
Currently part time CTO at Farillio & interim CTO at MedicAnimal.com
What I offer
I work with early stage businesses and scale-ups
Interim roles
Interim / freelance CTO
Interim Operations Director
Interim Product Manager
Product hacking
MVP & product design
Product positioning
Team development
Support with fundraising

Investment deck & IM creation

Financial modelling

Defining revenue streams

Advisory, mentoring & coaching

Non-exec advisory

Entrepreneur mentoring

Lean & Agile coaching
The Blog
Thoughts, musings, and ruminations.
CTO Craft panel debate on 'Hiring'
October 3, 2017
I was delighted to moderate a panel with some esteemed guests on the subject of hiring in Tech. You can watch the whole event here - https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/10907-ctos-in-conversation-hiring The event took place at Skills Matter on Tuesday 26th September 2017
Some ancient wisdom- how a Jewish text inspired me to have professional mentors
September 11, 2017
I don't usually write about my religion here and it doesn't often intersect with my business life other than general principles about business ethics*. I'm writing about it here as considering this text over the years has helped me to understand why it's important to have professional mentors. ...
Putting the tech in Fintech
September 10, 2017
Thursday night (7th Sept) saw CTO Craft's first event with a panel discussion of CTO's talking on the subject of Fintech. There was a lively and informative debate including myself, Ezechi Britton CTO and Co-Founder at Neyber, Douglas Squirrel Former CTO at Osper & Jonathan Lister CTO at...
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Experience

Dan Jacobs Limited (Consulting)
Director Oct 2011 - Present
Advising and providing interim technical, product development and commercial support for startups and established businesses.

2017: Belron (owner of Autoglass), Cowwow (InsureTech startup), GetMedix (Health Tech), Farillio (Legal Tech), MedicAnimal (Pet ecommerce)

2016: evvnt - (event distribution platform), RMI (Retail Marketing), Savvee (now WeGift), HelloHR (HRTech), THe Game Corporation (EdTech), Rooster (FinTech)

2015: 61000.co.uk, Yndica (product marketing), Practicus (consultancy), The Game Corporation (EdTech), WeSwap (FinTech)

2014: BloomVC (Crowdfunding platform), ReadingWise (EdTech), Lingos.co (EdTech), 61000.co.uk (telco)

2011: FIS (formerly Metavante/Nomad), IDT Global (Financial)
NoMoreFiling Limited
Founder / CEO Jan 2014 - Present
View and manage all of your home services, contracts, insurance, utilities etc through a great looking mobile app - www.nomorefiling.co.uk
enthuse.me
Founder & CEO Nov 2011 - Jan 2014
Founding CEO for enthuse.me - a site for marketing your personal brand. Acquired 16,000 customers in 9 months, nominated for and winner of several awards and received excellent reviews on over 100 tech blogs and news sites
IDT Global Ltd
Director of Payment Products Mar 2010 - Sep 2011
As Director of Payment Products for IDT Europe, I was responsible for running the Prime Card business including; Sales, Marketing, Product Development, Finance (P&L), Technology and Operations

The two flagship products that I launched and managed were the Prime MasterCard card and the Gift2Go Gift Card which are still widely available in stores around the UK
IDT Global Ltd
Co-founder / Head of Operations (European Payments) Jul 2005 - March 2010
Co-founder of IDTFS, a licensed bank in Gibraltar and member of MasterCard (and later Visa). I was instrumental in all areas of the business with responsibility for setting and managing the logistics, operations and technology to support the bank and its flagship product in the UK, the Prime Card. The Prime Card was Europe's first instant issue pre-paid credit card
Previous experience
1995 – 2005
I have held many senior technology roles including CTO at Virgin.com, interim CTO at Confetti.co.uk and more.

See my linkedIn profile for more information...
Writings on business, Technology & startups

2017
The intersection of product and technology - how does the product role fit in a technology organisation
Roundtable discussion on 'Should a CTO code?'
Why startups should not offshore their software development
What does a CTO do? - How I approach a new client as an Interim CTO

2016
Do you even want my business? - My story of looking for a freelance social media manager

2015
Crowdfunding is now a top-up network - My latest thinking on how equity crowdfunding now works
Introducing… No More Filing - A primer on my main project following its launch
no more bootstrapping - How to raise Seed funding in the UK
Which web technology should I use? - A guide to tech stacks for non-technical founders

2014
Why I started No More Filing - My thinking behind my latest startup
Throw that code away - Sometimes you need to just start again, and that's OK
Less complex than the large hadron collider - the London startup accelerator scene demystified

2013
I'm interviewed by 'Chatting with Champions' - Audio recording
I'm interviewed by 'Business Interviews'
Why working from home doesn't work - I've since repudiated these views
Businesses I have created and founded
Some companies I've founded, developed and launched

Prime Card
in 2006, I co-founded a bank and launched a consumer pre-paid debit card - Prime Card which was very succesful
Enthuse.me
Enthuse.me was a next generation LinkedIn which I founded and built
No More Filing
I founded in 2014, NMF is the main project I am focussing on. I launched the mobile app in Sept 2015
Hello HR
Hello HR was an HR and benefits service which runs via slack. It has now pivoted to HelloBenefits and I am no longer involved
Expand
Expand is a product discovery site for new and cool UK consumer web and mobile products.
Media

No More Filing video used for raising money - 2015

No More Filing video used for raising money - 2015
No More Filing video used for raising money - 2015

Video Interview with Tech City Entrepreneurs, I'm discussing my now defunct startup enthuse.me
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Dan Jacobs

Interim CTO, Founder & Product innovator

Product focused CTO - former startup founder - business and product innovator

What I offer

I work with early stage businesses and scale-ups

Interim roles

Product hacking

Support with fundraising

Advisory, mentoring & coaching

The Blog

Thoughts, musings, and ruminations.

Experience

Dan Jacobs Limited (Consulting)

Director Oct 2011 - Present

NoMoreFiling Limited

Founder / CEO Jan 2014 - Present

enthuse.me

Founder & CEO Nov 2011 - Jan 2014

IDT Global Ltd

Director of Payment Products Mar 2010 - Sep 2011

IDT Global Ltd

Co-founder / Head of Operations (European Payments) Jul 2005 - March 2010

Previous experience

1995 – 2005

Writings on business, Technology & startups

Businesses I have created and founded

Some companies I've founded, developed and launched

Prime Card

in 2006, I co-founded a bank and launched a consumer pre-paid debit card - Prime Card which was very succesful

Enthuse.me

Enthuse.me was a next generation LinkedIn which I founded and built

No More Filing

I founded in 2014, NMF is the main project I am focussing on. I launched the mobile app in Sept 2015

Hello HR

Hello HR was an HR and benefits service which runs via slack. It has now pivoted to HelloBenefits and I am no longer involved

Expand

Expand is a product discovery site for new and cool UK consumer web and mobile products.

Media

No More Filing video used for raising money - 2015

No More Filing video used for raising money - 2015

Look me up on social media...

Please use the form below to contact me