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I hooked up with Simon Grice, Founder of etribes yesterday (piggy-backing on an e-mail I received from Chris Leigh of Real Time Race). Within 24 hours, we have a dedicated web presence for the StartUp 2.0 events. A true collaborative effort. etribes also have a payment gateway, which will no doubt be handy for organising […]

I have just been sorting out the name tags for the event (shame on those who have not given me their names, company names and designations!). Here is a list of entrepreneurs who have brought or in the process of bringing products and solutions to the market (please note web developers, outsourcing experts, etc have […]

These days I speak to many Indian businessmen and I am connected to many Indian networks. Asians constitutes 2% of the British population but generates 10% its GDP. So knowing Indian community is vital to doing business in UK and globally. I even received a certificate recently from Indo British Partnership signed by Lord Karan […]

Quick update on the progress…. The event (basically catering) will be sponsored by KPMG Manchester Practise. Thanks Siddiq for your support. Venue has been sponsored by IoD. Many thanks Laura. Imran Ali, Strategy Director of Orange will be the keynote speaker. Podcasting will be provided/managed by Stuart Bruce in true web 2.0 style. Chairperson/moderator will […]

Congratulations to North West’s entrepreneurs Anish Kapoor and Philip Hemsted for securing funding from Rising Stars Growth Fund in Oct 06. I am one of the first users of Yuuguu and happy to recommend the service to anyone. Whilst the functionality is limited, they have a clear product road map and with an Ace Team, […]

FounderContact.com promises to be a friend for entrepreneurs looking for funding for getting their idea off the ground or those who seeks additional funding for growth.  It was co-founded by Andre Maljaars, who is also the CEO, with the vision of creating the world’s premium online marketplace for entrepreneurs and investors. Andre claims to have […]

This was an article which I published earlier and then removed due to protest from my LinkedIn buddy…I have now removed the name of the Talk Talk Executive, so as not to jeopardise my LinkedIn buddy’s relationship with Talk Talk Executive…………………………………………………. I switched our home phone line from BT in an attempt to consolidate our […]

Following was taken from upcoming.org Having asked others to introduce, I realised I have not really introduced me. So here goes.. I run ebdex, which was set-up 2 years ago to streamline the way businesses exchange structured documents with their suppliers and customers. It’s a hosted and managed service and can simply be explained as […]

Sam Sethi of TechCrunch UK just reported the above event I have been blogging about for number of weeks now. Sam has kindly arranged for Imran Ali, the deputy to the Director of Orange’s Technology Research team (based out of Leeds) as the keynote speaker. There will also be a panel with Q&A sessions. Further […]

I was trying to find out any news on my father’s appointment to the board of CEB, alas there is nothing out there! Only thing I can find is a small contribution my father made to Digital Butterflies sometime back. History is that he joined CEB in 1962 and retired as the General Manager (equivalent […]