As the New Year approaches

I have a lot to be thankful for. We sold and bought a house at the beginning of the year and are happy to have moved to our new home. We have exchanged one set of good neighbours for another but the kids now have loads of friends around them to play with and they are much happier as a result.

The consultancy went well but suffered from a 3 month blip when I broke my ankle in June and then got focused on the Angel Round for dbTwang which we closed on 19th December. There is a lot inbetween the beginning and the end of that and hopefully I will get a chance to share that with some of you at upcoming barcamps (the one planned for the end of January has yet to be announced but bizcamp.ie should be up shortly and will be held on Saturday 7th March in Dublin)

dbTwang in it's current and future forms would not be possible without the help and inspiration we have received from a number of people:
Conor O'Neill (who indirectly hooked us up with...)
Gerry McQuaid

Robin Blandford
James Corbett
Damien Mulley
Joe Drumgoole
Marcus MacInnes
and the elder statesmen (in terms of stage of development at least) Pat Phelan, Fergus Burns and Brian Kelly.

Each of these has shared their time and advice with me over the year and that helped a lot when I needed a friendly and experienced person to turn to. Each of us has highs and lows and it is good to share both.
[It occurs to me that there are no women on that list, need to do something about that.]

Personally I am also very grateful to my co-founder Fintan Blake Kelly (the guitar-head who inspires this) and my wife and kids. Who see less of me than then would if I worked 9 to 5 and have to put up with a lack of foreign holidays and a car heading towards being a classic because of my focus on dbTwang.

Thank you to every one of you and I hope your businesses achieve everything you hope for in the coming year

keith