First full time job at Fubra
At university I still kept in touch with Paul and Brendan who had set up www.fubra.com. They came up to Nottingham a couple of times to experience student life.
In my first year at Nottingham I had emailed Paul suggesting I should drop out of university and join Fubra. I am pretty sure he did not want that responsibility on his shoulders as he told me to stick at it until Fubra was doing better.
With no graduate career lined up in my final year, I arranged to start at Fubra as soon as I returned home from university in June 2003. At this time Fubra was beginning to really prosper and had a team of 6 full time employees, 2 summer students and 2 students from Holland on a placement year. It felt like a proper company. I was appointed their Technical Innovation Manager or TIM for short.
It was at Fubra that I learned how to program in PHP (the same programming language that Clear Books is written in).
(Written January 1st 2009. Republished from Tim's personal blog on startups & small businesses)
