Images from the event I attended yesterday
The man who built Manchester's Tech Startup Ecosystem
Category: edocr.com
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 for any post on Xiaohongshu was 418 over a few weeks. I’m not new to social media. My none repeatable greatest achievements with a lot of luck are: Getting over 70,000 views on a Cheat Sheet on edocr.com during the early days. Traffic came from…
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 27,000+Techcelerate: https://lnkd.in/eKeefU7 (know how of building tech startups)– Community: 30+– Newsletter: 1,800+– Unique visitors: 10,000+Next event on the 20th in Manchester https://lnkd.in/edycNsDqhashtag#traffic hashtag#intelligence hashtag#community hashtag#skilleduplife hashtag#deallite hashtag#techcelerate hashtag#techstartups hashtag#investment hashtag#funding hashtag#manchestertech hashtag#techmcr
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.
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 then totals the number of dates volunteered. From this, they reach out to none performing team members. Rules are: No updates for 3 consecutive days – warning sent No updates for 5 consecutive days – terminated. Latest addition (from today onwards): Each of the team…
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. Prompts: Rewrite the following email in a casual tone of voice: Rewrite the following email using less than 300 words: I’m writing an email. Add a new section to it with concise next steps: Once your sample email is added, it will execute your request.…
I’m still recovering from an unexpected 100 km ride yesterday. When I do not ride longer distances, I start to doubt myself. I went out yesterday hoping to improve from the previously longest ride in 2023, which was 55 km. My hope was for a 70 km ride, as I assumed I was unfit. If I plan to ride a long way, I normally go deep south with a pit stop at Holmes Chapel Costa. Yesterday’s ride was without a pit stop, i.e. no coffee and bacon butty. My wife and kids bought me an Apple Watch a few years…
A quick introduction whilst I am here. I have been building tech companies and support businesses since 2004 with my fair share of failures. My 17 efforts are listed https://manojranaweera.me/who-is-manoj-ranaweera When I turned 50 about 5 years ago, I promised myself that I will build 5 businesses over the next 20 years. Here’s where I am today Community (know how): https://techcelerate.ventures – I speak about Techcelerate Way often these days. Building tech companies in a sustainable manner without chasing investors from the beginning. Get traction before investment. Intelligence (UK only though): https://deallite.uk and it’s assets – dedicated to tracking the UK’s tech investment landscape. Both…
What ChatGPT said. In WordPress, hooks can be used to modify or extend the functionality of a plugin or theme without directly editing the plugin or theme files. To use hooks with plugins that are not part of the theme within child themes, follow these steps: Create a child theme: To create a child theme, create a new folder in the “wp-content/themes/” directory of your WordPress installation and name it whatever you want. Within this folder, create a style.css file and add the following code: /* Theme Name: Your Child Theme Name Template: Name of the Parent Theme */ Replace…
Right now, the new gold seems to be in the data. Who has the most data on which AI Models can be run? Take edocr.com for example. They are sitting on so many documents. Just imagine unleashing ai models on extracted data from documents. Even Deal Lite has data. Our data sets are small due to our niche focus. Yet, it could have a greater value in the future.So, if you are building a business where there is data, whether extracted or not, you are accumulating gold. So keep doing what you do.