Daniel Shields. I build products end to end — from how they look to how they make money.

For the last decade I've been the person who takes an idea and makes it real — designing the interface, building the backend, shipping the whole thing. Most of that has been on my own startups, so I've owned every layer of the stack and learned what it actually takes to get something off the ground.

I recently finished a Master's in Entrepreneurship, which means I think about what's worth building, and not just how to build it.

Projects

Articles

When I'm not building, I'm thinking about how startups work: as experiments more than businesses, using agile as a way to learn rather than just ship fast, and why learning from failure is a skill worth having. I have learned the ability to get feedback, pivot, and adapt while building a product is worth as much as clean architecture.

Education

  1. Degree
    MA Entrepreneurship
    University
    Falmouth University
  2. Degree
    BSc (Hons) Computer Science
    University
    University of Hertfordshire
  3. Degree
    Bachelor of Information Science
    University
    University of Pretoria