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Are you an awesome UI/UX Visual Designer?

Published by ManojRanaweera on October 9, 2013

Livestax, when launched will blow your mind! It is an amazing product created by Phil Brown and Ross Alderson, and a team of highly talented software engineers over a period of 2 years. We now need to give Livestax a soul, and that’s where you come in, if you are a highly talented UI/UX visual designer, who’s prepared to break existing design boundaries, and create a paradigm shift in design innovation for SaaS web applications. You are the missing piece in our talented team. Livestax is a SaaS framework. Imagine it as a canvas, where the canvas is filled with…

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Introducing my latest gig – LiveStax

Published by ManojRanaweera on October 9, 2013

I have been itching to share my involvement with Livestax, and this seems to be the best forum to announce it. I was brought in by Phil Brown, the founder and CEO of UK’s leader in software for the construction industry to help commercialise Livestax, a new product incubated as a startup inside a mature tech company. Livestax addresses number of pain points, among them, helping to increase productivity by unifying software you use everyday. Instead of having to jump from one software application to another to extract vital information, you will now be able to see everything on one…

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Are partnerships a good way to scale a SaaS business?

Are partnerships a good way to scale a SaaS business?

Published by ManojRanaweera on January 13, 2013

Answer by Manoj Ranaweera: In Q4 2011, we made a strategic decision to take a partner lead approach, as we struggled to connect our product/service with existing business processes. We went live with Buffer (Buffer your documents for increased productivity) in Dec 2011 followed by Zendesk (Enrich Zendesk customer service with centralised documents) in March 2012 and ended 2012 with 14 product integrations, some of which were build by vendors and others by third parties such as Cloud services and software from Cazoomi In most cases, selection of SaaS apps for integrations were based on our use of the complementary…

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Zoli Erdos – Entrepreneurship and early-stage funding

Published by Manoj Ranaweera on April 26, 2006

I recently came across Zoli Erdos through Dennis Howlett’s blog. Zoli writes extensively about entrepreneurship and early-stage funding. Couple of interesting articles I found from his site include: Why Startups Shouldn’t Bother About NDA’s – This article took me to Dharmesh Shah‘s blog. Another guy who has done it and can proudly wear the T-shirt. Just dropped an introductory e-mail to Dharmesh. Need to identify synergies between the two businesses. With regards to NDAs, I still demand signing a NDA before going into lengthy discussion about ebdex. However, this does not always work with VCs, as they generally refuse signing…

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