Manoj Ranaweera

Building a great tech company (edocr.com) and tech ecosystem (techcelerate.org) in the north of England

Archive for October, 2006

ebdex is a hippo!

Stephen Berry, an alum of Manchester Business School made the following request today. I have just released a book ‘Strategies of the Serengeti’ which examines the successful strategies used by the giraffe, zebra, crocodile etc (13 in all) and shows how the same strategies can be applied in modern business. On www.StrategiesoftheSerengeti.com there is a [...]

31 October 2006 at 22:53 - Comments
Good morning Manoj, thanks for taking part - and for feedback. My ultimate (grandiose) aim is to change the way we talk ...
1 November 06 at 12:46
Strategies of the Serengeti (www.StrategiesoftheSerengeti.com) quiz has now passed 1,000 responses from 37 countries. It is light-hearted and not serious ...
6 December 06 at 13:59

Technorati Sucks really works

If you ever have a problem with Technorati, use the tag "Technorati Sucks" and you should get immediate attention as I did today. I am now ranked 152,874th out of 55 million blogs. There are 56 links from 16 blogs. Only two people uses "ebdex" as a tag, these being me and Dennis Howlett. More [...]

27 October 2006 at 22:01 - Comments
Interesting idea... actually I think Technorati does suck. For some reason they recognize my blog as two seperate blogs ...
30 October 06 at 06:55

Master Blogger will be in Manchester next month

Today, looks like a day for blogging. I have not stopped since I woke up, except to comply with my youngest daughter’s requests – and yes I had to promise my oldest daughter that daddy will help her write few blogs tonight. And its some sort of dress pink day, it seems! And I need [...]

27 October 2006 at 07:43 - Comments

Technorati Sucks?

For some weird reason, Technorati has stopped ranking this blog 73 days ago. All my attempts to contact them have not resulted in any success to date. WordPress claims to automatically ping each article. I use technorati tags. I tried pinging directly from Technorati. It does not work. Technorati Tags: Technorati Sucks, Technorati Download as [...]

27 October 2006 at 07:38 - Comments
Things you can do: 1. I don't think you can put the code snippet onto the WP.com site but it should ...
27 October 06 at 19:57
Manoj, There was a problem on our end crawling your blog, I found it and fixed it. Sorry about the difficulty. -Ian Technorati
27 October 06 at 20:31

Strange request from a reader – Do I work for Ariba?

I do not want to allienate this person, but I received the most strange request from an employee of Deloitte yesterday. Here it is….perhaps someone can help her (if you e-mail me on ranaweeram@gmail.com, I will forward it to her). I am a regular reader of your blogs. Hope you can help with my urgent [...]

27 October 2006 at 07:03 - Comments

Building on line communities around events – NW Start Up 2.0 and Start Up 2.0 groups

In addition to using upcoming.org to set-up the NW Start Up 2.0 event, I have also created two communities (groups) on the same web site, titled NW Start Up 2.0 and Start Up 2.0. The intention is to allow members (free service) to use these two sites to advertise their requirements as well as offer [...]

27 October 2006 at 06:50 - Comments
Is this open to a chartered accountant (one who thinks like a businessman instead of an accountant)
28 October 06 at 12:36
Yes, provided no one else come back with any objections.
28 October 06 at 17:09

Tiger’s Den in Manchester – You heard it right!

Two local well known Asian entrepreneurs are setting up a Dragon’s Den style event where they intend to find suitable start ups to invest £100,000. This event is expected to take place early next year, will no doubt be a hot topic discussed in Manchester and the North West VC/Angel Network community. It is suitably [...]

27 October 2006 at 06:40 - Comments

Angel Pitch an entrepreneur matching agency

TechCrunch recenly carried an article on Angelpitch, a new start-up hoping to bring business angels and entrepreneurs together by creating a video conferencing matching service. Visit TechCrunch (Sam Sethi) for full article. Below is an extract plus my own take on VCs and business angels. One of the hardest things to do in the UK [...]

27 October 2006 at 06:06 - Comments
Thanks for the coverage Manoj, and I will make every effort to attend your event in Manchester. We have decided ...
27 October 06 at 10:08
Thanks for the coverage Manoj, and I will make every effort to attend your event in Manchester. We have decided ...
14 November 09 at 12:51

Head/Director of Sales

Paul Roberts has kindly revised the brief after taking stick from none other than Dennis Howlett… A highly ambitious Software or IT Sales Manager or Sales Director is required to lead the sales function.  This person will be responsible for taking the whole ebdex solution to market.  You must have a proven track record of [...]

27 October 2006 at 05:28 - Comments

NW Start Up 2.0 – Open for Registration

If you intend of attending above event, please register at upcoming.org The event is to bring entrepreneurs who operate in the IT and software industry and those who invest in this sector together, including deal makers. We are trying to attract about 50 people for this event. Please note that we reserve the right to [...]

24 October 2006 at 12:42 - Comments
Hi Manoj, this looks really interesting so I am definitely going to try and attend. Coincidentally I'm looking at trying ...
25 October 06 at 13:22