3 Pieces of advice for starting your own business - John Safa

John is an entrepreneur and founder of Pushfor.

John’s career started when he was 11 years old after a chance encounter with a computer magazine. His first computer was a ZX81 Sinclair and he had to type in his programs from computer magazines. Always a fan of taking things apart to find out how they worked John started deconstructing the programs he was typing into his computer and began learning from there.

This combined with a natural flair for working with people quickly saw John working in consultancy. John worked with Experian and in his spare time he wrote a security application to protect some software he’d been writing. John developed software protection technology that turned into a powerful security engine that was used for companies like Microsoft Games.