Manoj Ranaweera
Daily Update: 2023-03-06
SkilledUp Life: Sales meeting with a Nigerian Tech Startup. Leadership meeting with a discussion on issuing certificates. Operational support. Paid salary for one employee after getting feedback from Flutterwave. Dealt with failed subscriptions. Techcelerate Ran Series 1 Episode 4 Linkedin Audio – Onboarding customers and customer support with Andrew Threlfall and Russell Groves. Onboarding session […]
Prioritising Multiple Business Interests with Personal Life
Assume the above is self-explanatory if not give me a shout and I will write a few words to help.
Tool Hack: AWS WorkMail + Google WorkSpace Essentials
Since the dawn of Google Apps, which are now called Google Workspace, I had a free business account that Google no longer wants to offer free. Going from not paying to paying for 50 user accounts is not something my wallet would be happy to spend on. I’ve been scratching my head on how to […]
David Lovett’s 18 year Journey and Exit
Just listened to the awesome story of David Lovett‘s Perceptive Engineering Exit story yesterday. Dave was brought in to lead a University spin-out in 2002. He raised investment, bought the investors and the university out through an MBO and Exited to Applied Materials. Dave and his team moved to Sci-Tech Daresbury just after me and a few early innovators in 2006. […]
Don’t attempt to flog to laggards too early
The need to focus on early adopters – time to be clever. I should know better. But we all make classic schoolboy errors from time to time. Until now, I’ve worked on the principle that I could help any Tech Founder. But this is an illusion. You can only help people who are willing to […]
I need to ask my wife
I need to ask my wife before I buy #StartupLife [This is not about having a go at wives – opposite might equally be true, but I’ve only experienced this with men who wanted business advice from their wives]. During my tech startup carrier since 2004, I have come across above a number of times. […]
Solo Founder Dilemma – Not accountable to anyone!
First published on Linkedin. (a discussion I had with myself whilst cycling this afternoon) Of course, no doubt you would argue that all of us are accountable to the taxman (Nah! – it’s just reporting), customers and so on. But truly, we are not accountable to anyone! In my case, I don’t have a Board […]
WordPress Staging and Live
Who knows, this may be useful to some. Setting up a staging WordPress instance: Go to cPanelSelect the live site, usually www. and clone itPerhaps as staging. or dev. Once you have setup the new site using the clone site, usually replacing the theme and plugins, then to go live: Go to cPanelBackup live siteDelete […]
China – You decide!
Following is taken from a YouTube comment without any editing by me. Make what you will. The following is what I borrowed from a Malaysian YouTuber’s comment: I’m from Malaysia. China has traded with Malaysia for 2000 years. In those years, they had been the world’s biggest powers many times. Never once they sent troops […]
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Been watching the life of Prince Philip on telly, who passed away yesterday aged 99 years. What a remarkable life he seems to have led. In 2014, I had the chance to meet him and have a quick chat. He had an impressive memory and a wit about him. My memory is so bad, I […]