Manoj Ranaweera
Methodology for starting up on Xiaohongshu
I published my first post on 16th Feb just over 2 months ago and have acquired 1 team member, 104 followers and over 10 sign ups for SkilledUp Life. The Rules As I cannot read Chinese, I breached their rules in the early days. Make sure you do not include website addresses in your posts […]
Getting 10,000 views on Xiaohongshu
When I saw my last post on Xiaohongshu getting more views than the previous posts, I wondered whether I could drive it to get 10,000 views. Sadly, I missed achieving the target by midnight today. After 16 mins past midnight, I managed to get to 10,000 views. Previously, the highest number of views I attracted […]
My community strengthSkilledUp Life: https://skilledup.life (42,500+ skilled volunteers for tech startups)– Volunteers: 42,750+– Tech Companies: 200+– Linkedin Company Page Followers: 52,000+– Unique visitors: 47,000+Deal Lite: https://deallite.uk + https://lnkd.in/efmz5xBP + https://uktechnews.info + https://uktechexits.news (intelligence for Tech startups, investors and suppliers)– Deal Lite Weekly Deal News: 1,200+– Deal Lite Company Page Followers: 10,000+– Unique visitors: 78,000+ and […]
What do I do?
I do three things – https://techcelerate.ventures – community of tech founders. We are about building companies for customers and not investors – https://deallite.uk – intelligence on UK’s venture backed tech companies and investors who back them – https://skilledup.life – 41,000+ skilled volunteers to build tech companies, especially supporting bootstrapped tech companies.
Evolving of Daily Reporting Culture
A few years back, we introduced daily reporting culture at SkilledUp Life. This is how it works: Everyone submits an update of what they worked on every day on a dedicated Slack Channel including full-timers and me in addition to our volunteers. Our HR Performance Sub Team copies the updates to a Spreadsheet manually, which […]
Stuff we don’t realise we have.
It has only taken about 15 years to realise I can use QuickTime Player to record videos and I don’t need Loom, Bubbles or Vidyard.Only a few years back I started to use Notes and realised I didn’t need any fancy SaaS applications for note-taking.Freeform has killed my need for flowcharting SaaS apps.I started using […]
Keeping the new year momentum
It’s no secret that 2023 has been a disappointing year for me. So far this year, at least for SkilledUp Life, we have decent momentum. Day 1 – disappointing. Failed to process salaries due to the failure of Flutterwave. Day 2 – A new customer signed up. I met them first on Linkedin in November. […]
Learning AI through #100DaysOfAI Challenge – Day 1 & 2
I discovered a course thanks to Chamara and decided to take it in given that the ask is for 30 minutes per day. Day 2 which I completed today instead of on the 2nd Jan is all about using ChatGPT to improve your existing work, in this case, an email was used as an example. […]
The art of building a tech startup
Building a tech startup and perhaps any business is all about having a vision, being able to articulate it, assembling a team and executing it. It helps execution if the know-how is there to start with. You know what needs to be done, how to do it and when to do it. You may not […]