Manoj Ranaweera – Page 5 – The man who built Manchester’s Tech Startup Ecosystem

The arrogance of the West – Covid 19 response

Published by Manoj Ranaweera on March 31, 2020

The West continues to bash China refusing to believe in the measures it took to control the spread of the Covid-19 Corona Virus outbreak. We can continue the blame game, or learn from each other to take this pandemic under control. You decide who you want to believe and what additional measures you should take without breaching your own governmental guidelines. However, China seems to have withheld Taiwan from joining WHO meetings to both share good practices as well as learn from others on Covid19 response. Whilst they closed down wet markets (where wild meat is sold next to live…

Gaining 10,000 views on Linkedin in 4 days

Gaining 10,000 views on Linkedin in 4 days

Published by Manoj Ranaweera on October 24, 2019

Once I managed to gain over 200,000 views over a 4 week period. Since then I have not achieved anything of such significance. The above simple post started to gain traction on the first day. So I spent a bit more effort to see whether I can drive it to reach 10,000 views. It took me 4 days, but gladly to see that it is not impossible to achieve such. Steps I took: Responded to comments.Spoke to others about it.When around 5,000 views, wrote an extensive post and linked back.Spoke to more.

I saw the moon last night

I saw the moon last night

Published by Manoj Ranaweera on October 8, 2019

The world we live in – the irony of western democracy or human nature? Brexit happened and Remainers (I was one) are still not happy. What if Remainers accepted the vote and worked with Brexiteers for the good of the country and its people? Would we be in this mess? Donald Trump got elected. The opposition never accepted and ever since trying to destroy the government instead of working together for the goodness of the country and the world. We need strong and fair oppositions to keep those in power accountable. But not the way they are behaving today. Politics…

50 Something – Make the Middle Age Relevant Again

50 Something – Make the Middle Age Relevant Again

Published by Manoj Ranaweera on September 23, 2019

This article originally appeared on Linkedin Noted that Nick Jaspan recently ran a Roundtable on 50 something, but from a consumer angle (sorry Nick only read the headline). I’ve been toying with a hypothesis lately and think it’s time I share it. I’m 51. Some of my batch mates (Royal College, Colombo 87 Group) are already thinking of retirement and some may have already retired. I am planning to work until my death (hopefully hit 100 like my grand father), and of course, I hope to spend fewer hours on work than now when I am older. Unlike me (and the likes),…

Linkedin Post Views Mystery

Linkedin Post Views Mystery

Published by Manoj Ranaweera on September 21, 2019

When does the Linkedin Post Views counter reset? Is this based on the age of the post or relying on some other bizarre algorithm? I just looked at my last six months. Some seem to have retained the count whereas others have reset. Once I had a post with over 200k views in 4 weeks. Never managed to find a repeat formula. The best I’ve done recently is with 6k views on a post. Here are my most viewed three posts over the last six months: 6019 – Liverpool https://www.linkedin.com/posts/manojranaweera_liverpool-tclpl-activity-6562997014462820352-m0eq5846 – Manchester tech ecosystem https://www.linkedin.com/posts/manojranaweera_who-are-the-builders-of-manchesters-tech-activity-6553989372587360256-vzFq5323 – Looking for 2 more…

Catching up with Lisa Layzell

Catching up with Lisa Layzell

Published by Manoj Ranaweera on August 21, 2019

Caught up with Lisa Layzell who seems to be getting prettier unlike me as we both age! Lisa and I both started out from Sci-Tech Daresbury in 2006 and she was one of the first female Tech Founders of old #Techcelerate and also an Alum of #Alliance Manchester Business School. We are both back at Daresbury and met to discuss Techcelerate China team. Lisa exited in 2013 from Thinspace, the same year I stopped old Techcelerate when Hugh Campbell of #GPBullhound acquired #NorthernTechAwards. Thinspace introduced Thinclient technology to UK. Working with public sector was hard those days for SMEs. I…

Waking up in a pool of sweat

Waking up in a pool of sweat

Published by Manoj Ranaweera on July 20, 2019

Good morning All! It’s 8 am on a Saturday. I woke up in a pool of sweat. I don’t normally see dreams. But saw one last night which I do not understand. The last image I have is I entered a room (they did not invite me in – it was still being arranged). Its ceiling was at least 3 floors high and painted in white. Almost like an atrium which has become a project office. And dangling from the ceiling was two sets of big boards with words and dates written in black. One had my name in English…

Stronger Together #SriLanka #LKA

Stronger Together #SriLanka #LKA

Published by Manoj Ranaweera on April 21, 2019

I woke up this morning to the terrible news of multiple atrocities committed in Sri Lanka. Yoshith Weerakoone has designed the following which you may use as you see fit to demonstrate your solidarity and not let few individuals ruin our beautiful country. Multiple sizes can be directly downloaded from Google Drive. For Twitter Cover For Facebook Cover

Planting Seeds Publicly

Planting Seeds Publicly

Published by Manoj Ranaweera on February 15, 2019

I like planting seeds publicly and see where it might take us. Today, my focus is to develop Techcelerate into helping Tech Founders grow their Tech (scalable product with recurring revenues) Companies until exit. We’ve actually achieved very little of what I set up to do, but have evolved as we engage with tech founders. I’ve now structured what we offer into Data + Network + Growth & Investment Advisory But two things happened this week which got my brain on fire. I was offered shares in a startup and I started discussions of acquiring a distressed but awesome tech…

Uniting the world through WhatsApp

Uniting the world through WhatsApp

Published by Manoj Ranaweera on February 10, 2019

The tech evolution started to accelerate at the back end of 20th century. Then we had the dot com bust. Some of those who survived, are ruling the world today. Two of the notable global giants are Salesforce for business and Amazon for consumers. Then in the mid ’00s we saw the emergence of what was known as Web 2.0 technologies. These focused on mixing tech with social. Whilst a large number of tech companies found in those times has hit the dead pool, some have emerged to be global giants. Among them are Facebook and YouTube. Flickr which inspired…

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