Response to TechCrunch article on Scribd
Below is my response to comments posted against above blog post I am struggling to understand why people seems to be against Scribd so much. Given Scribd’s popularity, I can only assume these comments are from the minority. Scribd opened the document publishing, distribution and interactivity market, and for that reason alone, we should all […]
Response to Sarah Lacy on TechCrunch
This is my response to Sarah Lacy’s recent article on TechCrunch We have never met Sarah, but have heard a lot about you. I run http://www.edocr.com, which I have bootstrapped for well over 2 years and we are perhaps the first to come up with a commercial model in our market segment, if you ignore […]
Weekly Newsletter – Tech StartUps and Digital Advocates
This newsletter covers: 1. Next Event: Tech StartUps and Digital Advocates – UMIC, Manchester on 22nd July 2. Membership 3. Sponsor an Administrator 4. Your Feedback 5. Partner Events (The Insider, Chinwag and Technology World 2009) 6. Contact Details 7. Our Partners 1. Next Event: Tech StartUps and Digital Advocates Programme: 22nd July 2009 – […]
Tech Mission London according to Telegraph
This article was written in response to the story appeared on Telegraph FACTS: 1. I organised an event titled "Tech Mission London 09" on 8th June 2009 hosted by Stewart Townsend of Sun Microsystems in London. If there were any deficiencies of the event, then I am the one who should be blamed for such […]
Fierce On Going Battle in Sri Lanka against LTTE – The real battle begins once Prabhakaran is defeated
I have been glued to internet media channels and Twitter since yesterday morning to hear the end of LTTE and Prabhakaran. As the media was regugitating the same story over and over combining it with propaganda from pro-LTTE websites and old information from the UN and others, my frustration continued to grow. I came to […]
I collect people – he collect awards – Imran Hakim (aka Mr. iTeddy) – Another day of Northern StartUp 2.0
Northern StartUp 2.0 is becoming a much discussed topic these days within the tech entrepreneur community in the North of England. Among those who have spent few hours trying to understand, why a 41 year old man is so excited about Manchester and the tech scene is none other than Mr. Imran Hakim who is […]
Rationale for TwiCRM
My analysis of Twitter is: It is the best tool after e-mail (and ofcourse after edocr.com) Twitter is here to stay for a while, and have a good chance of being bigger and more influential than Facebook, YouTube, etc, especially from a business perspective I have lately been frustrated by: Inability to build a holistic […]
Vision, Mission and Strategy of Northern StartUp 2.0
In Feb 09, Phil Tapsell of TechVenture Solutions Ltd and Tom Cheesewright of The Lever Ltd joined Manoj on voluntary basis to steer NS20 forward, especially with respect to marketing and business development activities respectively. As you would have expected, one of the first activities of the team was to refine the vision, mission and […]
You do not need to buy A Silicon Valley? A response to Paul Graham
Imran Ali just pointed me to a blog post by Paul Graham of Y-Combinator titled "Can You Buy a Silicon Valley? Maybe". Even before I finished reading the second paragraph I knew I had to respond to it. So here I am reading and responding to Paul Graham. If you agree or disagree with what […]
StartUp4Slaughter – DistinctID
Tonight’s StartUp4Slaughter is Ash Mokhberi of DistinctID Since the launch of the internet users have had to repeatedly submit registration information to websites and create multiple usernames and passwords. With the launch of social networking sites and sites such as ebay, we have all started to build profiles of our identity on the internet. Whether […]