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Hi Om, I wrote a blog post several months ago about how to find a person’s email address, verify it and then use other services to enrich it. I never published it due to not being totally comfortable with what I have written. The process involves (where the email address is not known): 1. Guessing the email address (there are number of ways) 2. Verifying this using the largest professional network (and if needed the largest social network) 3. Once verified, add to web applications that could enrich the email address by finding out social profiles of the individual and…

Softworld is UK’s premier event for accounting software vendors. I was a regular attendee during the days of ebdex (my first tech startup), but have not attended the event during the last few years. Those days, the event was held in Birmingham and was seen as the annual showcase event for accountancy software. It was  at least 3 times bigger than the event I attended yesterday, and was buzzing with people. In contrast, yesterday’s event was not just small but it seems that the organisers forgot to invite buyers. Access Accounting had the largest exhibiting area, and probably worked harder…

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 replace the faulty motherboard instead, so that I would not need to go through the hassle of installing new software and moving large amount of data. Strangely, you cannot order spare parts for Macs either on Sunday or Monday in the UK. Any hope of…

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 of this learning has been applied by Imran Hakim and the team (perhaps not directly taking from Saul) in Manchester through Envestors and RAW2010, in terms of de-risking. But that’s another story for another day. The Motivation (best to come clean upfront!) At Techcelerate, we…

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 week!), Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, who invested in Google and Amazon.com early on, has double its $100 million iFund set up in 2008 and managed by Matt Murphy for application development to $200 million to support iPad application development. The iFund has invested in…

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 a business should not be an accounting exercise, without a true picture of your finances, you have no business. I would argue, that the point of finances is to generate a profit and increase the valuation of your business. If we expand the profit further,…

Image source: Problogger.net This article is inspired by a private tweet I received just now, which simply said “Can’t see the value…” when I queried a prospective customer “What’s stopping you use edocr.com for your group and the subsidiaries?”. I am the first to acknowledge that not everyone will buy a product irrespective of how good it is. But I like a challenge. Let me know by the end of this short article, whether you agree or disagree with me. Value of Social Networking Do you see the value of Twitter, Facebook and Youtube? I assume you do. Each of…

Image source: biojobblog.com Below is a list of tips to improve your document being found through search engines, third party sites such as social networks and on edocr.com 1. Document Title: Ensure document title is more than two words, descriptive enough to justify content, and without hyphens or underscores (SEO) 2. Twitter: Set your twitter details for auto-tweeting (distribution) 3. Source URL: Edit document page to add your source URL (distribution) 4. Duplicates: Remove any duplicate documents to improve indexing by search engines (SEO) 5. Tags: Add all relevant keywords as tags to improve being found on edocr.com (distribution) 6.…