Manoj Ranaweera

I assume that all readers of this blog are web savvy. In case you are looking for Venture Capital and have not interrogated the Google Directory, here is a link for you:  http://www.google.com/Top/Business/Financial_Services/Venture_Capital/. In addition, if you want to contact Google direct, try your luck with http://www.google.com/support/contact/bin/request.py?bdpg=1 Tags: Google, VC, Venture Capital

According to a report published by BLT’s Management Consultancy Recruitment Team, demand for consultants remains steady with little upward movement on salaries. The salary mid-points as per their report are as follows: Analyst – £26k Junior consultant – £41k Consultant – £59k Senior Consultant/Manager – £66k with top end extending up to £90k Managing Consultant […]

Here are the latest ranking details from Technorati. For the first time, this blog is in the top 100,000. I was monitoring the ranking regularly and whilst number of links and blogs have not really changed much, I believe the ranking improved due to increasing traffic. The only other explanation I can think of is […]

I attended the webinar organised by 170 systems over webex yesterday. The speakers were Andrew Bartels, VP and Research Analyst from Forrester and Larry Concannon, Director of Product Marketing from 170 Systems. I was disappointed with the webinar as both speakers rushed to complete without interacting with the audience. However, webex allowed audience to send […]

Having commented on the ideal number of partners to start a business, taking one of my previous ideas further, ebdex Consulting would need three to four people to start with. Today, I believe I found the second partner (of course, the first partner being me!). I also found another Associate, who could easily be the […]

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 […]