About Segala

About Paul Walsh

Founder and CEO

Paul is the Founder and CEO of Segala, a specialist in Web based standards compliance certification and expert in content classification using a method called Content Labels.

Prior to Segala, Paul was an executive at Eqos, a pioneer in the development of Web technologies for the B2B retail industry.

Paul was one of the first to join AOL as a small startup in 1995 where he was the first Technical Accounts Manager and International Beta Coordinator. He was a key member of the team developing AOL’s UK presence and assisted with the launch of other AOL European territories.

Paul has international experience within the Telecommunications Industry and has consulted for companies such as Vodafone, O2, Orange, CMG and ADC Metrica.

Paul was reelected Chair of the British Interactive Media Association (BIMA), the longest established Industry association to represent the interests of the digital industry, in May 2007 after serving as Chair in 2006, and as a member of the Executive in 2005.

Paul is an adviser to the British Council, helping it to build and improve the digital pioneer programme with Hong Kong. He is also advising them on a new 3 year entrepreneurial related project with India.

He is non-Executive Director at Newspepper.com and a mentor to the CEO of 3 Dynamics; one of Hong Kong’s top 5 mobile games companies.

He is also a Partner in a group of award winning, Michelin rated restaurants in Dublin.

Paul hosts conferences, delivers keynote speeches and moderates debates regularly. He also consults brands with a global presence, in how to adopt social media to deliver more innovative marketing to improve consumer engagement.

Contribution to Standards

Instrumental in the formation of the W3C’s first ever incubator activity, to review Content Labels as a formal method of classifying and labeling content
Segala’s W3C Advisory Committee Representative
Founding Sponsor of the W3C Mobile Web Initiative and member of the Steering Council
Active participant in the W3C Semantic Web Education and Outreach (SWEO) special interest group.

How to connect with Paul

One of the top 5 Irish who’ve made it into London’s marketing elite

One to watch out for in 2007

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February 18, 2007 @ 11:41 pm

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February 23, 2007 @ 8:09 am

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[...] Segala, a company involved in website accessability and trust. They have rather an interesting idea about content labeling. Paul Walsh, their CEO, “is Segala’s W3C advisory committee representative”. Keep an eye on them. You’ll be hearing more about them I’m sure! Oh, and if you leave a comment here, it may be entered into a link bait competition Paul’s running. He’s giving away an iPod on March 2nd. If he picks you, I’ll email you with Paul’s email address. [...]
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[...] Segala, a company involved in website accessability and trust. They have rather an interesting idea about content labeling. Paul Walsh, their CEO, “is Segala’s W3C advisory committee representative”. Keep an eye on them. You’ll be hearing more about them I’m sure! Oh, and if you leave a comment here, it may be entered into a link bait competition Paul’s running. He’s giving away an iPod on March 2nd. If he picks you, I’ll email you with Paul’s email address. [...]
April 19, 2007 @ 5:31 pm

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[...] These insights for entrepreneurs are a good read. They were apparently originally from OnStartUps - I found them via the entrepreneurs group on Facebook (thanks Paul for taking me there) but when I went looking I couldn’t find them on OnStartUps. Pithy Insights For Startup Founders 1. Seek transparency and understanding with your partners early. Issues get harder as time passes 2. Startup founders work long hours for a reason. There’s more work than there are people. If you’re seeking balance, seek it elsewhere. 3. Bad customers will drain you of passion. Really bad customers will drain you of both passion and profits. Unfortunately, most bad customers will degenerate into really bad customers if you don’t do something about it. 4. If you’re changing direction often, worry a little. If you’re changing people often, worry a lot. 5. It’s lonely at the top, but even lonelier at the bottom. In the early days of a startup, hardly anyone wants to talk to you (except some desperate vendors). 6. Eventually, your product will need to work and do something useful. No amount of marketing or strategy will get you around this. 7. At the end of each day, ask yourself: “Did the product get better for customers today?”. If you don’t have a good answer, stay up until you do. 8. Until you are profitable, time is working against you. Once you are profitable, time is on your side. 9. Learn to take calculated risks. The market rarely rewards safe bets. 10. To improve the quality of your output, improve the quality if your inputs. Read, converse and connect with the right people. 11. Force yourself to write, as it will force you to think. 12. At least once every year or so, your startup will almost die. 13. The problem you solve should be ugly. The solution you build should be beautiful. 14. Even the most successful startup ideas had 100 reasons not to pursue them. There is no perfect idea. 15. If the pain doesn’t kill you, it just hurts a lot. 16. You choose your destiny, because you choose your team. 17. Be who you are. Do what you love. Join people you like. [...]

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