October 2006

Stephen Berry, an alum of Manchester Business School made the following request today. I have just released a book ‘Strategies of the Serengeti’ which examines the successful strategies used by the giraffe, zebra, crocodile etc (13 in all) and shows how the same strategies can be applied in modern business. On www.StrategiesoftheSerengeti.com there is a […]

If you ever have a problem with Technorati, use the tag "Technorati Sucks" and you should get immediate attention as I did today. I am now ranked 152,874th out of 55 million blogs. There are 56 links from 16 blogs. Only two people uses "ebdex" as a tag, these being me and Dennis Howlett. More […]

Today, looks like a day for blogging. I have not stopped since I woke up, except to comply with my youngest daughter’s requests – and yes I had to promise my oldest daughter that daddy will help her write few blogs tonight. And its some sort of dress pink day, it seems! And I need […]

For some weird reason, Technorati has stopped ranking this blog 73 days ago. All my attempts to contact them have not resulted in any success to date. WordPress claims to automatically ping each article. I use technorati tags. I tried pinging directly from Technorati. It does not work. Technorati Tags: Technorati Sucks, Technorati

I do not want to allienate this person, but I received the most strange request from an employee of Deloitte yesterday. Here it is….perhaps someone can help her (if you e-mail me on [email protected], I will forward it to her). I am a regular reader of your blogs. Hope you can help with my urgent […]

In addition to using upcoming.org to set-up the NW Start Up 2.0 event, I have also created two communities (groups) on the same web site, titled NW Start Up 2.0 and Start Up 2.0. The intention is to allow members (free service) to use these two sites to advertise their requirements as well as offer […]

Two local well known Asian entrepreneurs are setting up a Dragon’s Den style event where they intend to find suitable start ups to invest £100,000. This event is expected to take place early next year, will no doubt be a hot topic discussed in Manchester and the North West VC/Angel Network community. It is suitably […]

TechCrunch recenly carried an article on Angelpitch, a new start-up hoping to bring business angels and entrepreneurs together by creating a video conferencing matching service. Visit TechCrunch (Sam Sethi) for full article. Below is an extract plus my own take on VCs and business angels. One of the hardest things to do in the UK […]

Paul Roberts has kindly revised the brief after taking stick from none other than Dennis Howlett… A highly ambitious Software or IT Sales Manager or Sales Director is required to lead the sales function.  This person will be responsible for taking the whole ebdex solution to market.  You must have a proven track record of […]

If you intend of attending above event, please register at upcoming.org The event is to bring entrepreneurs who operate in the IT and software industry and those who invest in this sector together, including deal makers. We are trying to attract about 50 people for this event. Please note that we reserve the right to […]