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Growth of your startups post exit
There is nothing better than watching your attempts being nurtured under new management and ownership. In August 2013, GP Bullhound acquired Northern Tech Awards, which has become the key annual tech event of the North. Since the acquisition, it has toured Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and expect to hit Edinburgh in 2018. It’s an amazing event […]
edocr exit party – thank you Manchester
Atlas Bar – all ready and waiting for my guests, the misfits As you probably heard, edocr.com was acquired by Accusoft, Inc in March 2015. Over the years, many friends helped me to setup, launch and keep it growing, especially during the hard times. As a way of saying thank you to them, I held […]
edocr Ltd renamed to Venture 9 Ltd
Just a quick announcement to state that from today onwards, edocr Ltd will be Venture 9 Ltd. This change was initiated as Accusoft holds all rights to edocr name. There are no plans for Venture 9 going forward other than to shut it down at some point in the next 12 months. Resources: Memorable quotes on my second […]
Review of 20 hottest UK tech startups of 2008 #Webmission08
Image Credit: Mike Butcher, taken at Bebo office, San Francisco in Apr 2008 The Tour In April 2008, 20 of the hottest UK techstartups toured San Francisco and the Silicon Valley. These companies have raised a whopping $95 million to date. The Companies were: DotHomes/Byteplay, edocr.com Groupspaces HubDub/Fanduel Huddle Kwiqq Mydeo Rummble/Rummble Labs ShortFuze/Moviestorm Silobreaker […]
10-Minute e-Mailers and the grief
We have begun to continuously monitor traffic, as part of providing real-time chat support through Woopra on edocr.com. Woopra is an invaluable service to our operations, and we recommend it highly for any tech startup. Today, we came across a new edocr.com account which was continuously pinged, in fact 556 times today. As a general […]
5 Stages of a tech startup – Stage 1: Product Development
There are many ways to plan the growth of your tech company. One way is to split start to exit period in to 5 stages, these being: product development, product/market fit, launch, growth and dominance. And each of these stages can be further split into five key components, these being: milestones, team, product, funding and […]
Recruitment II – Early Observations of Sri Lankan IT Market
Idea Stage Having made the decision to build our product development centre in Sri Lanka starting with employing the first senior PHP and Drupal Developer, I thought it might be useful in capturing my experience so far, at least for my own reference. In my previous post, I spoke about the challenges we face at […]
Overcoming challenges
At edocr.com, we never had it easy! I have changed teams many times over the last 4 yrs. At the beginning, I had a great team, but due to various issues, the team under performed. Then there was a period of about 15 months where no real development took place. In 2008, I outsourced complete […]
Ultimate Search Box
I have been exploring various search boxes of our competitors to understand the ultimate size and shape for our own search box. Here are few references: Designing The Holy Search Box: Examples And Best Practices 25 Creative Search Bar Designs
Mini Social Media Strategy for edocr.com
Mini Social Media Strategy to stimulate your documents on edocr.com: + Find five colleagues savvy with social networks, and get them to bookmark your document to Twitter, Linkedin, Facebook, Del.icio.us, Digg and StumbleUpon + Let us know and we could also bookmark, provided its relevant not a low quality document