January 2007

Have you started a business before or are you thinking of starting a business? Have you wondered what the ideal number of partners/directors you should have when starting a business? My take is that no business should be started without less than 3 partners. Beyond 4 partners it becomes difficult to manage, initially. Obviously, the […]

So if EIPP is not worth mentioning why is Accenture playing with EIPP? Sorry, they call it Electronic Invoicing and Settlement (EI&S). Nothing wrong with that except that its another definition, actually this time to mean a business unit/group/division, rather than a solution/product. Perhaps EI&S is a better term than EIPP. PP stands for "presentment […]

Hopefully by now, my readers know what EIPP is. In case you do not know, it stands for Electronic Invoice Presentment and Payment. Unfortunately, there isn’t a universally accepted definition for EIPP. So I defined it on Wikipedia, only to be deleted by some do-gooders! I was nearly going to say, Wikipedia sucks! But I […]

Two ideas I am exploring right now (details will be revealed if there is enough interest as I develop my thoughts further): Setting up an Open Source project – I am inspired by Dave Stephens of Coupa and a discussion with Rising Stars, a Venture Capitalist in North West of England – But the set-up […]

Dennis Howlett, one of the two people who inspired me to start blogging (the other one has nearly given up) has just published his first post on ZDNet blog, as a result of prodding by Dan Farber. His first post is a cracker, especially about Paris Hilton and even having a go at Freshbooks. Dennis […]

I finally updated my LinkedIN profile. Here it is: Let me know if you have any comments for improvements. Did you know that LinkedIn has a new Q&A facility? Here is the link.. I only found this out today. Tags: Manoj Ranaweera, LinkedIn, social networks

(click here for full image) Above is extracted from a third party publication (i.e. not directly from the original report). I actually expects revenues to be much higher. However, as the market is fragmented, it is difficult to conclude the basis for above projections, e.g. does above include e-mailing invoices and not just end-to-end transactions […]