Manoj Ranaweera

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

Archive for February, 2007

Speaker profiles of NW Start Up 2.0

Speaker 1 – Anish Kapoor – CEO of Yuuguu   Anish was co-founder of TeleCity PLC, the pioneering European collocation and data centre service provider. He is currently NXD for Jacamar, an online gaming infrastructure provider and a NXD for Xware, a mobile gaming software developer. In addition he has held various executive roles at EXML Systems [...]

27 February 2007 at 23:29 - Comments
We are down to four speakers, as Mark Birbeck cannot make it due to returning from Palo Alto on the ...
13 March 07 at 23:06

e-invoicing projections from Billentis

Copyright: Billentis According to Billentis, number of B2B e-invoices exchanged in Europe will grow by 75% from 240 million to 420 million. This is still a small fraction of the overall invoicing market constituting both paper and e-invoices. According to the presentation given by Bruno Koch at ExPP summit, the average number of e-invoices exchanged in [...]

27 February 2007 at 22:37 - Comments

Accountis expects to handle 5 million e-invoices for one European client in 2007

According to today’s blog post from Accountis, they expect to handle over 5 million e-invoices for one of their clients. Looking at their client portfolio on the website, I assume this has to be DHL. This is a remarkable achievement for Accountis. Other clients identified on the website includes:

Abbey International (Isle of Man) Christian Salvesen Conwy Council DHL Ericsson Expotel Goodyear Dunlop G4S [...]

27 February 2007 at 22:29 - Comments

Jamie Gunn on Sky Radio

Click here to listen to an interview given by Jamie Gunn, CEO of OB10. Tags: OB10, Jamie Gunn, EIPP, e-invoicing

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27 February 2007 at 20:23 - Comments

East Riding of Yorkshire Council selects OB10

The pre-qualification process for selecting an e-invoicing system for East Riding of Yorkshire Council started in August 06. In Jan 2007, OB10 announced award of a three year contract by the council.

What is amazing is the short buying cycle! This proves that the council has done its home work and was genuinely interested in [...]

27 February 2007 at 19:50 - Comments

Everything You Wanted To Know About Venture Capital

You might be interested in this slide pack from Ben Holmes of Index Ventures who presented at last week’s Future Of Web Apps. Thanks Imran for pointing me to this.

It’s the first time I came across slideshare. What a great idea! Something everyone could do with. Just like Youtube! What about a similar platform for [...]

26 February 2007 at 17:07 - Comments

NW StartUp 2.0 – Registration now open

If you are keen to register for the above event taking place at KPMG on 15th March, you could do so now by clicking here. Thanks to Ixis, we now have a more permanent home at http://www.nwstartup20.co.uk. This will allow me to organise different types of events easily. Few events I have in mind (not [...]

26 February 2007 at 14:37 - Comments

Gates Vs. Jobs

Here is a video clip from Youtube that is worth watching…

I am the mighty finder – I can find anything – you can run but you cannot hide.

Tags: Youtube, Microsoft, Apple, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates

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26 February 2007 at 11:00 - Comments

Blog Aggregators

Some of the blog aggregators you might want to consider:

Footy 24/7 aggregates news, blogs, videos and images from official sites of premiership foot ball clubs. This is a rich medium with pictures and videos. Platform chosen is Drupal. 

Planet Enterprise 2.0 run by Rhys Jones, the founder of Accountis aggregates content on enterprise 2.0 (web 2.0 [...]

26 February 2007 at 10:39 - Comments

Google group launched for NW StartUp 2.0

This is just to announce that a Google Group has been set-up for the NW Start-Up events. Site can be access through here. Its bit rusty at present. That’s it for now. I am switching off. Tags: NW StartUp 2.0, Google groups

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22 February 2007 at 16:58 - Comments