Author: ManojRanaweera

Tonight’s StartUp4Slaughter is Ash Mokhberi of DistinctID Since the launch of the internet users have had to repeatedly submit registration information to websites and create multiple usernames and passwords. With the launch of social networking sites and sites such as ebay, we have all started to build profiles of our identity on the internet. Whether it be a profile of personality and life experience or a profile used to identify credibility and trust among others. To this day the profiles or identity’s we build about ourselves online are restricted to their website of origin, forcing us as users to rebuild…

Twitter is everywhere these days and I must admit, it is my favourite tool next to e-mail and of course edocr. It is truly a remarkable marketing tool that I use everyday for both edocr and Northern StartUp 2.0. I also use twitter for user/customer engagement, news and collaboration. What is also amazing is the number of applications that have sprung up using Twitter API. In order to understand twittersphere, you need to understand what is out there. On this regard, I will be making an attempt to publish short articles on interesting Twitter Applications I find. To start with,…

Just a quick blog post to let you know that there are only 16 tickets remaining for tomorrow’s event. You can still buy a ticket at http://www.nwstartup20.co.uk/jan09. Act now to avoid disappointment later. Tickets at door are priced £40 irrespective of your status. \ "Thriving as a Tech StartUp in an UpStart economy – Beating the economic blues", is our first Northern StartUp 2.0 event of 2009 at new venue Horwath Clark Whitehill, Manchester, UK. The doors open at 6pm. Speakers and panelists include:   1. Mike Butcher, Editor, TechCrunch UK and Ireland. 2. Ed French, Venture Capitalist, Enterprise Ventures.…

The Richard Report prepared on behalf of the Shadow Cabinet by Doug Richard of Dragon’s Den fame and Chairman of Library House and Trutap, both of which are in financial trouble at present, addressed some key issues regarding small businesses and the Government with respect to business support.  As Doug put it, the big numbers are worth the attention, especially the number of business support schemes, and the amount of money the government spent on business support services and the resulting 33.5% overhead it attracts in distribution. The report contained more revealing figures within the main body of text, e.g.…

Today, I received a request to remove a person from one of my e-mails. And he made the point that my e-mail did not have an option to remove him from my mailing list. The problem is that I use multiple channels with multiple mailing lists. What does that mean? At present, my day is spent on managing a complex web of activities. These activities fall broadly into brands, some of which have not yet been publicised. EIPPWorld.com, ForesightNorth and Northern StartUp 2.0 are divisions of eveo Ltd. Product development to sales and marketing. Building an ecosystem for digital businesses…

These graphics from BBC on the financial crisis that affects all of us one way or another, are too good to be ignored. Casualties – Number of companies that were nationalised, taken over, asset stripped or let to go bankrupt. The Cost of the bail-out – Unbelievable to think the cost of Northern Rock nationalisation. AIG’s bail out look almost minor news. edocr also hosts number of documents related to the credit crunch, all of which can be accessed from here. Tags: credit crunch, financial crisis 2008, credit crisis, banking failures, AIG, Northern Rock, Bradford & Bingley