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Xero and Tide Banking feeds nightmares

Over the last few months, Tide Bank changed bank accounting details. If you had Xero integrated with this, your feeds may have stopped working. When you have re-activated synchronisation at Tide end, it may have created duplicate accounts. This creates a nightmare scenario. To get out of this problem: Remove Xero connectivity at Tide end Remove Tide App at Xero end. Delete any duplicate bank accounts at Xero end. Download any missing transactions from Tide in Xero format and upload to correct bank account at Xero end. This is optional. Leave for 24 hrs. Activate Tide app at Xero end.…

Me according to Dr. Angel Salazar

Manchester is a thriving hub for innovative tech companies, driven by visionary leaders like Manoj Ranaweera. With over 20 years of experience and two successful exits, Manoj simplifies his expertise through three core ventures. Techcelerate aids tech founders from inception to exit with community wisdom and membership support. Deal Lite offers valuable intelligence, connecting businesses with potential investors and acquisition targets, boasting a database of over 4,000 venture-backed tech firms. SkilledUp Life matches 44,500 skilled volunteers with tech startups, fostering team building and experience growth. Together, these initiatives underscore Manchester’s dynamic and collaborative tech ecosystem. The above is written by…

Who I can help

Yes, I have immense knowledge and experiencein building tech companies acquired over 20 years with 2 Exits. I will be 56 shortly.However, I have simplified my offer to the worldTechcelerate (https://techcelerate.ventures) – help tech founders in their long journey from start to exit. Operate as a Membership organisation with Partners and Specialists. Offer: how to build tech startups. Wisdom of the community.Deal Lite (https://deallite.uk) – intelligence – find companies to sell to, find investors, find investments. Subscription based offer. 4,212 venture backed tech companies. 3,752 VCs and CVCs. 1,783 business angels. 6,270 funding rounds. We are open to companies outside…

Methodology for starting up on Xiaohongshu

I published my first post on 16th Feb just over 2 months ago and have acquired 1 team member, 104 followers and over 10 sign ups for SkilledUp Life. The Rules As I cannot read Chinese, I breached their rules in the early days. Make sure you do not include website addresses in your posts or comments. Xiaohongshu will penalise you. As a result, they took away my ability to comment. The beginning Post regularly – which I didn’t do. This was my mistake. Suggest post daily. Follow those you think might be interested in what you offer – don’t…

Getting 10,000 views on Xiaohongshu

When I saw my last post on Xiaohongshu getting more views than the previous posts, I wondered whether I could drive it to get 10,000 views. Sadly, I missed achieving the target by midnight today. After 16 mins past midnight, I managed to get to 10,000 views. Previously, the highest number of views I attracted for any post on Xiaohongshu was 418 over a few weeks. I’m not new to social media. My none repeatable greatest achievements with a lot of luck are: Getting over 70,000 views on a Cheat Sheet on edocr.com during the early days. Traffic came from…

My community strengthSkilledUp Life: https://skilledup.life (42,500+ skilled volunteers for tech startups)– Volunteers: 42,750+– Tech Companies: 200+– Linkedin Company Page Followers: 52,000+– Unique visitors: 47,000+Deal Lite: https://deallite.uk + https://lnkd.in/efmz5xBP + https://uktechnews.info + https://uktechexits.news (intelligence for Tech startups, investors and suppliers)– Deal Lite Weekly Deal News: 1,200+– Deal Lite Company Page Followers: 10,000+– Unique visitors: 78,000+ and 27,000+Techcelerate: https://lnkd.in/eKeefU7 (know how of building tech startups)– Community: 30+– Newsletter: 1,800+– Unique visitors: 10,000+Next event on the 20th in Manchester https://lnkd.in/edycNsDqhashtag#traffic hashtag#intelligence hashtag#community hashtag#skilleduplife hashtag#deallite hashtag#techcelerate hashtag#techstartups hashtag#investment hashtag#funding hashtag#manchestertech hashtag#techmcr

What do I do?

I do three things – https://techcelerate.ventures – community of tech founders. We are about building companies for customers and not investors – https://deallite.uk – intelligence on UK’s venture backed tech companies and investors who back them – https://skilledup.life – 41,000+ skilled volunteers to build tech companies, especially supporting bootstrapped tech companies.

Evolving of Daily Reporting Culture

A few years back, we introduced daily reporting culture at SkilledUp Life. This is how it works: Everyone submits an update of what they worked on every day on a dedicated Slack Channel including full-timers and me in addition to our volunteers. Our HR Performance Sub Team copies the updates to a Spreadsheet manually, which then totals the number of dates volunteered. From this, they reach out to none performing team members. Rules are: No updates for 3 consecutive days – warning sent No updates for 5 consecutive days – terminated. Latest addition (from today onwards): Each of the team…

Stuff we don’t realise we have.

It has only taken about 15 years to realise I can use QuickTime Player to record videos and I don’t need Loom, Bubbles or Vidyard.Only a few years back I started to use Notes and realised I didn’t need any fancy SaaS applications for note-taking.Freeform has killed my need for flowcharting SaaS apps.I started using Mail last year when Google Mail became no longer free for business. It’s search functionality is poor but it does the job.Sadly I can’t use the Contacts due to the contacts multiplication issue corrupting my contacts about 10 years ago. Wonder whether I should take…