Manoj Ranaweera Posts

What happened? The Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) said on 8th March 2023, that it was planning to raise $2bn in capital after losses on bonds it sold. This spooked investors and customers which resulted in the share price drop by about 60% by the next day. This resulted in customers withdrawing cash rapidly resulting in a “bank run”. Share price continued to drop as a result. According to Claire Lee, ex SVB employee, This is a comedy of errors; without the comedy. Time of death: after questionable decisions and clumsy communications, panic ensued on March 9th — then clients withdrew…

SkilledUp Life: Sales meeting with a Nigerian Tech Startup. Leadership meeting with a discussion on issuing certificates. Operational support. Paid salary for one employee after getting feedback from Flutterwave. Dealt with failed subscriptions. Techcelerate Ran Series 1 Episode 4 Linkedin Audio – Onboarding customers and customer support with Andrew Threlfall and Russell Groves. Onboarding session for new tech founders: Rezaul Hoque, Joseph Petrie and Craig Taylor supported by Andrew Threlfall. Organising TCLPL4 on Wednesday and TCMCR37 on 15th – invites sent by Nishani. Deal Lite: Prepared deals for the Deal Lite Newsletter which Wishma issued. Shared a screenshot with a…

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Since the dawn of Google Apps, which are now called Google Workspace, I had a free business account that Google no longer wants to offer free. Going from not paying to paying for 50 user accounts is not something my wallet would be happy to spend on. I’ve been scratching my head on how to find a no-cost or low-cost solution. Here’s what I found. Moving Email to AWS WorkMail If you have AWS Credits that last two years, you can move emails across to AWS WorkMail and use those credits to not pay for emails for up to 2…

Just listened to the awesome story of David Lovett‘s Perceptive Engineering Exit story yesterday. Dave was brought in to lead a University spin-out in 2002. He raised investment, bought the investors and the university out through an MBO and Exited to Applied Materials. Dave and his team moved to Sci-Tech Daresbury just after me and a few early innovators in 2006. I left in 2011 and rejoined a few years back. Dave continued to leverage the campus all the way to the Exit. At the time of Exit, Dave owned 30% of equity, which in my book, is an awesome stake to hold. Dave also changed…

Following is taken from a YouTube comment without any editing by me. Make what you will. The following is what I borrowed from a Malaysian YouTuber’s comment: I’m from Malaysia. China has traded with Malaysia for 2000 years. In those years, they had been the world’s biggest powers many times. Never once they sent troops to take our land. Admiral Zhenghe came to Malacca five times, in gigantic fleets, and a flagship eight times the size of Christopher Columbus’ flagship, Santa Maria. He could have seized Malacca easily, but he did not. In 1511, the Portuguese came. In 1642, the…