Techcelerate
Strategy for maintaining multiple calendars
Life was easier when you had only one calendar to deal with. If you are like me, then you have made your life difficult by having too many unconnected calendars, causing misery! Here are a list of my calendars: iCal (MacBook) Google iPhone Salesforce.com Tungle.com I have added Tungle.com today, so that others who want […]
Why am I rebranding Northern StartUp 2.0?
Northern StartUp 2.0 has come a long way since our humble start in November 2006. Whilst I enjoy running it, it has strained my resources heavily. Unless something is done, it’s sustainability is questionable in the medium to long run. So here are my reasons for repositioning: 1. It must generate income to compensate effort. […]
Rebranding – Budget vs no budget, freedom vs. constraints
It is no surprise to my regular readers that Northern StartUp 2.0 is currently going through a rebranding and repositioning exercise. Whilst there is a lot to talk about why this is taking place, I thought of highlighting few discussions I had on Twitter about rebranding and repositioning with an international software house which has […]
Next Generation Broadband Access – Building the Case for Regional Investment
On 15th Jan, I attended an Insider Breakfast event held at Bridgewater Hall hosted by Michael Taylor and his team. Read Insider – Morning with who’s who of Manchester Corporate Sector for my coverage of the event. Following on from there, I am running an event on the Next Generation Broadband Access jointly with DC-KTN. […]
Northern StartUp 2.0 Website is Under Attack!
For the last five weeks, Northern StartUp 2.0 website has been under attack by spammers. The spamming was related to opening accounts, about 5 every hour, which has resulted in over 1000 new accounts. Less than 1% of these accounts have actually added any comments, but if they all did, the site will be overwhelmed […]
Tech CEO Round Table Discussion
I (NS20) hosted a round table discussion yesterday at Horwath Clark Whitehill’s offices in Manchester. This was an by invitation only session with no none tech CEOs. Prior to the kick off, Ed French of EV Group (venture capitalist) dropped in to have coffee, and later on, Steve Livingston from HorwathCW dropped into join the […]
Insider – Morning with who’s who of Manchester Corporate Sector
As Michael Taylor, Editor of the North West Insider introduced me at the yesterday’s Insider Breakfast event, “where’s Manoj, a short chap, ah there he is”. Luckily, Sean Fensom, Chairman and Digital Veteren of Manchester Digital later came to my rescue as he is shorter than me. At this point, I felt a whole lot […]
3 Day Conference in Manchester Showcasing local and international software companies?
Just an idea at this stage, but have approached a group of early stage companies in the USA to sound it out. The objectives: Promote companies and products – an exhibition Build partnerships with startups from Manchester (edocr.com, JavelinCRM, others), London and rest of the UK API Explosion – Get the tech community involved Tour […]
Key Objectives for 2010
2009 is fast becoming history. The two week period I wanted to use for thinking seem to be evaporating fast. Blogging is a great way to put you mark on the calendar. Twitter is fine, but you do not control it. I can see more and more people coming back to blog in 2010 whilst […]