ManojRanaweera
Check list for company name change – the legal aspects
The most time consuming element of this process is the time between decision to change and actually implementing it. In my case, I decided to rebrand Northern Startup 2.0 in Feb to Techcelerate with help from my friends through tweets. We changed the website and many other sales and marketing collateral over the months of […]
North West – Top Region for IPOs?
North West is host to 105 public listed companies with total revenues exceeding £52 billion, of which, £35 billion is generated by regions biggest company Unilever. 3 more companies generate over £1 billion from the rest of the 104 companies, these being Amec, United Utilities and now Lookers. 4 companies feature between £500 m and […]
TekCoffee hosted by Techcelerate is a fr…
TekCoffee hosted by Techcelerate is a free drop in event for all those who love technology from tech entrepreneurs to social media junkies, and those who falls between. We expect a small group of people attending these events References: 1. Event registration page on Plancast 2. Idea behind TekCoffee
Macbook Withdrawal Syndrome – Thinspace comes to rescue
My faithful MacBook Pro, which has been running every day since April 2008 suddenly stopped functioning yesterday morning, and I have been suffering from withdrawal symptoms ever since. I debated on whether to buy a new laptop, the entry product with 4GB RAM would have been £500 more than the repair cost, but decided to […]
Mini Seedcamp London – Where are the northerners?
I will be attending my third Seedcamp event tomorrow as a mentor. Seedcamp is without a doubt the main event for any budding tech entrepreneur team in Europe, and it is getting bigger each year attracting companies from all over the world. For those who are not familiar with Seedcamp, it was first introduced in […]
Launch of TekCoffee – how to join and self-managed
The Inspiration Saul Klein has been a great inspiration for me since I came to know him in 2007, mostly through OpenCoffee, a great investment (sales) funnel to identify the hottest startups and tech entrepreneurs. Later, he introduced Seedcamp to add a second level of filtration and de-risk his investments as much as possible. Some […]
Daily Tech News – 2010-04-28
Annual NW Business Pitch (Liverpool, UK) Just returned to office from pitching both edocr.com and Techcelerate at the Annual NW Business Pitch on Digital, New Media & ICT sector at Liverpool Science Park. From more than 25 companies pitched, I noted four companies that could be considered as tech businesses, these being, edocr.com, Collabor8online, Mediatank […]
Venture Capital Roundup – W/E 11 April 2010
Venture Capital Fundraising is up in the US On 6th April, Dow Jones reported 41% increase in US venture capital fundraising, raising $4.1 billion across 34 funds in the first quarter of 2010. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers setup fund for iPad developers The New York Times reported on 31st March 2010 (not quite last […]
Business – what matters most!
All my businesses follow a model where it is split into 10 categories (opportunity, product, market, sales, operations, service, finance, legal, HR and other). The thinking comes from Michael Porters Value Chain framework. Today, I have started to look at this from a slightly different angel with respect to edocr.com. Financial Profit and Valuation Whilst […]