Recent Posts Tagged With 'start-up'

• United Data #2 - Teaming up with Accountancy Age

  Posted on Wednesday October 17th, 2007 at 05:31 in start-up, eipp e-invoicing, eipp providers, ebdex

    According to David Ferdinando, Regional Director - London South of United Data: “The decision to sponsor the Accountancy Age awards was a natural choice. Over the next three to four years, the impact of ‘open networks’ will...

• Mashup* Manchester kick starts on the 18th Oct 2007

  Posted on Sunday October 14th, 2007 at 20:56 in start-up

  Mashup* Manchester will kick off on 18th October 2007 at Sun Microsystems in Sale, South Manchester with a high level discussion and networking evening themed ‘Web 2.0′. We want to bring together all the innovators, investors, enterprise...

• Vagueware is finally live - an idea from Paul Robinson

  Posted on Sunday October 14th, 2007 at 20:17 in start-up

  Paul Robinson, a keen OpenCoffee Manchester supporter has finally launched his new project, Vagueware, which is an idea bank. For what’s worth, I submitted one of my ideas to Vagueware today. In addition to my idea, there are three ideas...

• edocr - a 3 minute presentation

  Posted on Monday October 1st, 2007 at 18:46 in start-up, funding

  Here is the slide pack for tomorrow’s 3 minute presentation at Mashup* Demo. Have fun!   Technorati Tags: edocr, mashup* Demo Share This...

• FOWA - One free ticket to give away

  Posted on Sunday September 30th, 2007 at 15:11 in start-up, funding

  As you probably know I will be at Future of Web Applications event on 3rd October 2007. I also have a Conference Pass worth �245 + VAT to give away. Here is the criteria for selection: Make sure you can attend the event. Respond by 15:00 hrs on 0...

• Daresbury Innovation Centre celebrates 50 tenants

  Posted on Friday September 28th, 2007 at 21:56 in start-up

  ebdex moved to Daresbury Innovation Centre (DIC) within Daresbury Science & Innovation Campus (DSIC) in February 2006, when there was a handful of tenants, and everyone knew everyone else at that time. Time has passed since, and now DIC is g...

• Project Sahara # 1 - Kick off meeting

  Posted on Wednesday September 26th, 2007 at 05:15 in start-up, funding

  I attended the Project Sahara kick off meeting held at Sheffield Halam University last Saturday.    The concept was put together by Lee Strafford, Founder and ex-CEO of plus.net with the support from his fellow team mate Marc...

• OpenCoffee Manchester - 6th Event

  Posted on Wednesday September 26th, 2007 at 04:33 in start-up, funding

  OpenCoffee Manchester 6th event took place yesterday at the usual venue. Here are three stories: Paul Robinson of Vagueware - Paul has been developing Vagueware for number of months (feel like years) whilst competition is getting products...

• Second Chance Tuesday - The story of Europe’s largest web 2.0 sale

  Posted on Wednesday September 26th, 2007 at 04:01 in start-up, funding

  I attended the Second Chance Tuesday run by Judith Clegg and Michael Smith at Royal College of Physicians last night in London. A superb networking event except for poor catering. Then again, I set the bar high with NW StartUp 2.0, which any event o...

• NW StartUp 2.0 - 5th Event on 17 Jan 08 at KPMG Manchester

  Posted on Thursday September 20th, 2007 at 10:08 in start-up, funding

  I am proud to announce that the next NW StartUp 2.0 event will be held on 17 Jan 2008 at KPMG Manchester. The event details were published last night with one confirmed speaker. Without a doubt, it will be better than the 4th event held yesterday. Wh...

• NW StartUp 2.0 - 4th Event - Speaker update

  Posted on Wednesday September 19th, 2007 at 03:21 in start-up

  It’s with regret to inform that Billa will not be speaking tonight at NW StartUp 2.0 event due to a logistical nightmare. He has however confirmed his desire to speak at the next event in January, which hopefully will be better organised. I was...

• OpenCoffee Liverpool mixing with Jeff Barr of Amazon AWS

  Posted on Tuesday September 18th, 2007 at 13:32 in start-up

  Today, we had the opportunity to host Jeff Barr of Amazon AWS at Daresbury Innovation Centre. Here is the proof: 1st pic L to R: Phil Blything of Glow New Media who runs OpenCoffee Liverpool, Jeff Barr and me. Jeff was kind enough to give an unders...

• NW StartUp 2.0 - 4th Event - Introducing Chris Astle the 3rd speaker

  Posted on Wednesday September 12th, 2007 at 20:13 in start-up, funding

  Here is an introduction to Chris Astle, Managing Director of m-send, who would join the panel at the NW StartUp 2.0 event on 19th September 2007 at KPMG Manchester. As co-founder and Managing Director of m-send, Chris is responsible for the continui...

• OpenCoffee Liverpool & Jeff Barr of Amazon

  Posted on Wednesday September 12th, 2007 at 20:08 in start-up

  Jeff Barr, an evangelist of Amazon AWS is currently touring Europe, and I have convinced him to visit the North West of England. He will be at Daresbury Innovation Centre on 18th September 2007. To coincide with his visit, Phil Blything has moved Op...

• edocr #1 - Alpha is out - Opening an Account

  Posted on Sunday September 9th, 2007 at 01:00 in start-up

  After much work, we managed to release edocr Alpha last Friday (with some known errors). If you wish to have an account open, there are two options you can follow:\n\nE-mail me at manoj [at] ranaweera [dot] name. Please bear in mind that I will be at...

• NW StartUp 2.0 - 4th Event - Speaker line up

  Posted on Wednesday September 5th, 2007 at 15:13 in start-up, funding

  Further to my previous post, this time, we reach out to the USA. Our keynote speaker is none other than my friend, Billa Bhandari from Akoura. I first came to know Billa through FounderContact (Am I becoming an Indian - My new friend Billa and his cl...

• NW StartUp 2.0 - 4th Event on 19th September 2007

  Posted on Wednesday September 5th, 2007 at 12:38 in start-up, funding

  Apologies for the short notice, but the 4th NW StartUp 2.0 event is already upon us. For the 4th time, I have the support and trust of KPMG (thanks StevenL). Sun Microsystems has also joined to help me spread the word (thanks StewartT). This tim...

• United Data Ltd # 1 - Mark Morahan is back!

  Posted on Friday July 27th, 2007 at 09:57 in entrepreneurship, supply chain, vendors, start-up, funding, eipp e-invoicing, eipp providers, accountis, innovation startups funding blogs, saas on-demand

  There has been numerous occasions when I wanted to write about Mark Morahan but have resisted the temptation. But this article caught my eye. I came to know Mark through Morahan International, he set-up with few colleagues in 2003/04. Instead of talk...

• OpenCoffee Manchester - 5th Event

  Posted on Thursday July 26th, 2007 at 04:00 in entrepreneurship, start-up, funding

    OpenCoffee Manchester 5th event was held on past Tuesday at the same venue. Here are some pictures: Attendees Stewart Townsend - Sun Microsystems - Stewart and I are collaborating on number of initiatives Aldo De Leonibus - Director of I...

• OpenCoffee London #3 - Where are all the investors and deal makers?

  Posted on Friday July 20th, 2007 at 04:02 in entrepreneurship, start-up, funding

  I had the opportunity to attend OpenCoffee London yesterday morning, as I was in London for a private matter, having stayed the night before at Bourne End where Causeway Technologies is Head Quartered. As expected, the buzz is still there. But e...

• Seed Camp #1 - Y Combinator for Europe

  Posted on Monday July 9th, 2007 at 17:38 in entrepreneurship, start-up, funding

  Seedcamp is another brilliant idea by Saul Klein, the man behind OpenCoffee theme. The idea is to grab the best early stage companies set-up by those novel to startup scene before they get noticed by others - well before they achieve any valuation w...

• Rhys Jones #1 - Sanoodi gets seed corn capital

  Posted on Saturday July 7th, 2007 at 16:41 in start-up, funding, accountis

    According to Mobile Magazine, one of Rhys Jones’s startups, Sanoodi has closed an initial seed funding round of ?350,000 from a number of private investors in the UK, the US and Switzerland. It seems Sanoodi will use the initi...

• Blognation #3 - Finally launched with UK leading the pack

  Posted on Thursday July 5th, 2007 at 00:22 in entrepreneurship, start-up, funding, innovation startups funding blogs

    I met Sam Sethi last night for a glass of wine as he felt bit sorry for me for been stuck in a hotel room on my birthday in Loud Water. One of the nice surprises was to find out that I am one year younger than Sam, which makes me feel good....

• Blognation's Company Index

  Posted on Tuesday June 12th, 2007 at 17:30 in start-up, funding

  A very tired Sam Sethi and I had couple of pints at his local last night and discussed the forthcoming release of blognation. I now have a much more appreciation for the revenue generation capability of blognation. Managing approximately 100 blogers...

• OpenCoffee North - Task completed with launch of OpenCoffee Sheffield

  Posted on Monday June 4th, 2007 at 13:30 in start-up, funding

  Dean Sadler recently announced the launch of OpenCoffee Sheffield. From July onwards, you have the option to attend an OpenCoffee event every Tuesday in the North of England, these being: 1st Tuesday - Leeds - Imran Ali 2nd Tuesday - Sheffield - Dea...

• Breaking News'.OpenCoffee Leeds Uno

  Posted on Thursday May 31st, 2007 at 23:26 in start-up, funding

  Imran Ali has finally done the smart thing, after weeks (if not months) of thinking and taking in feedback for a venue and date to start the first OpenCoffee Leeds event. It's finally happening on 12th of June, and then first Tuesday of each month....

• OpenCoffee Liverpool kick starts on 19th June

  Posted on Wednesday May 30th, 2007 at 15:55 in start-up, funding

  Phil Blything, co-founder of Internet and Marketing Consultancy, Glow New Media has accepted the challenge to run OpenCoffee Liverpool. The first event will run on 19th June 2007. Please register here. The plan is that Phil will run Liverpool events...