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UK’s 30 hottest web companies by AppAppeal
Jelle de Bruin, co-founder of AppAppeal informed me of this excellent video they have created on UK’s hottest 30 web companies. Glad to see edocr among them plus number of webmission08 companies.
How important are Northern Stars for the region?
Please read page 6 and 7 of: The headline is “leaders of the region’s £16 billion digital and creative industries are intensifying their efforts to establish the North West as one of the world’s most innovative production centre’s for digital entertainment and new media”. As part of the initiative to grow regional output by £1bn […]
North-South Dividing Line – Your thoughts please!
An issue that I have not successfully resolved is the dividing line between the North and South of United Kingdom, from the perception of Northern StartUp 2.0. The services provided by Northern Startup 2.0 is for the digital startups in the North of England. At present it excludes Midlands and South Wales due to the […]
Serving Northern Digital Entrepreneurs – Best event ever!
I am happy to report that we had the best Northern StartUp 2.0 event ever on the 15th of July at KPMG Manchester. In case you missed it, here is a teaser: At the core of Northern StartUp 2.0 is the Northern Digital Entrepreneurs, that is people like me (Founder of edocr), Anish Kapoor (Founder […]
Forthcoming event on the 15th July at KPMG Manchester
I have been running Northern StartUp 2.0 events to promote digital entrepreneurship in the North of UK since October 2006 at the suggestion of TechCrunchUK Editor at the time, Sam Sethi. I am happy to announce that for the first time, the event on 15th July at KPMG Manchester has been oversubscribed. We will also […]
Crain’s Manchester Business – the only weekly business publication
Crain’s Manchester Business is the only weekly business publication available in Manchester. Crain’s approached Northern StartUp 2.0 prior to launch to understand the ecosystem for digital product based companies. As a result the Northern StartUp 2.0 was featured on the very first issue published on the 17th December 2007. In case you did not know, […]
RBS to resell Accountis’ e-invoicing service to corporate customers
Founders, Rhys Jones and others, and new owners of Accountis, FundTech must be so thrilled to finally be able to announce the deal with Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). Accountis has been working on this deal for many years, which I came to know at least over 18 months ago, but was requested not to […]
Did Rhys sell Accountis too cheaply?
What valuation would you assign to an EIPP provider? Should this be based on past performance, future potential or a combination of both? If so, was Accountis sold too cheaply to fundtech? Who held the upper hand during negotiations? Or was the shareholders of Accountis too keen to sell and move on? Have they moved […]
Well done Jamie
Congratulations to Jamie Gunn and the team from OB10, and their client Kelloggs for winning the "Shared Service Centre Organisation of the Year’ award in Barcelona at the IQPC Shared Services Week. Technorati Tags: OB10
European Purchase-to-Pay Week 2008
Technorati Tags: P2P,purchase-to-payment,iqpc,eipp,e-invoicing IQPC is organising a seminar next week from 16th to 18th in Brussels and 18th to 20th in London. Strapline is "one agenda two locations". As usual, attendees are expected to pay a hefty price from GBP899 to 2099 plus VAT depending on the time of booking and extent of attendance. Whilst […]