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- December 31st, 2009
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Goodbye Insightory.com – Opportunity for a management consultancy?
Insightory.com was soft launched two months after edocr.com through TechCrunch. As TechCrunch put it, they wanted to be the Wikipedia for Management Knowledge. I was drawn to Insightory.com as they o…
- December 29th, 2009
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Key Objectives for 2010
2009 is fast becoming history. The two week period I wanted to use for thinking seem to be evaporating fast. Blogging is a great way to put you mark on the calendar. Twitter is fine, but you do not co…
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MB1 – Play 8 – Work only on What is Important
Marc adopted similar principles to me in getting the product to market as quickly as possible. As he says in his book, “do it fast, simple, and right the first time”. Based on my discussio…
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Forthcoming knowledge share blog posts against Marc Benioff
Having met Marc Benioff on 8th Dec 09 in London and having finished reading his book, “Behind the Cloud” recently, I will be sharing my experience against Marc’s through a series of…
- December 24th, 2009
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Planning tools – removing duplication – plan for 2010
As I am in the thinking mode, one thing I am not good at is sticking to one tool for planning instead of using multiple tools. Just to get my head straighten, I thought it would be better to write it…
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Planning tools – removing duplication – plan for 2010
As I am in the thinking mode, one thing I am not good at is sticking to one tool for planning instead of using multiple tools. Just to get my head straighten, I thought it would be better to write it…
- December 23rd, 2009
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edocr external tool kit
edocr.com just like others, need a vast number of external services to function, both as a product and business. From a business perspective, below is a list of web services we rely upon to make our l…
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edocr external tool kit
edocr.com just like others, need a vast number of external services to function, both as a product and business. From a business perspective, below is a list of web services we rely upon to make our l…
- December 22nd, 2009
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Options for charging for leads – fixed or per lead basis
Since the soft launch of edocr.com in Oct 2007, we have been delivering value to our users and customers. The value delivered right now can be categorised into “exposure” leading to “…
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Options for charging for leads – fixed or per lead basis
Since the soft launch of edocr.com in Oct 2007, we have been delivering value to our users and customers. The value delivered right now can be categorised into “exposure” leading to “…
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Payment Solutions beyond paypal and others
I have a problem, both as a buyer and seller on payments using credit cards. I am convinced this problem is not unique to me. As a buyer – mailchimp as an example My HSBC credit card was recentl…
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Payment Solutions beyond paypal and others
I have a problem, both as a buyer and seller on payments using credit cards. I am convinced this problem is not unique to me. As a buyer – mailchimp as an example My HSBC credit card was recentl…
- December 14th, 2009
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First UK Microsoft Innovation Academy Workshop
The first ever UK Microsoft Innovation Academy Workshop took place on the 10th Dec 09 at Daresbury Innovation Centre. It was delivered by Jyoti Banerjee. I tweeted the full workshop, a two-day event…
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First UK Microsoft Innovation Academy Workshop
The first ever UK Microsoft Innovation Academy Workshop took place on the 10th Dec 09 at Daresbury Innovation Centre. It was delivered by Jyoti Banerjee. I tweeted the full workshop, a two-day event…
- November 26th, 2009
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Lead Capture – Your ideas for edocr.com
On Monday, our development team will start developing sales lead capture functionality. In a nutshell, lead capture is about capturing who looked at a particular document, and with the consent of the…
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Lead Capture – Your ideas for edocr.com
On Monday, our development team will start developing sales lead capture functionality. In a nutshell, lead capture is about capturing who looked at a particular document, and with the consent of the…
- November 18th, 2009
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Microsoft Sponsored Innovation Academy Workshop For Start-Up Software Businesses
As you are probably be aware, Northern StartUp 2.0 has been a Microsoft BizSpark Network Partner since we launched the programme at Cloud Computing event held in April 2009 when Bindi Karia visited us…
- November 17th, 2009
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Startup of the Week 3 – TheWeddingVine.com – Make you arrange your wedding easily
This week, I caught up with Mark Strefford, CEO of TheWeddingVine.com he runs with his wife, Vicki. I remember the days when Mark was thinking of how to take the first step of developing the site. I…
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How to join edocr Exclusive
If you are a customer of edocr.com, you can now join edocrExclusive Private Group on Twitter. How To Join This Group Go to edocrExclusive and click on the “send request” button. We must a…
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New flyer for edocr.com highlighting our focus on sales leads generation
As part of our preparations for exhibiting at Technology World 2009 on 23rd and 24th November 2009 at Coventry, UK, we have produced a new leaflet highlighting our current focus on sales lead generati…
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Your picture size correction at edocr.com
For an unknown reason, the image sizing module within edocr.com have malfunctioned over the last few weeks. As a result, your picture would not have re-sized to suit your account page or your document…
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Is the environment right for venture capital in the north west?
Michael Taylor, the Editor of the Insider Magazine, just ran another successful Deal Makers 2009 Award ceremony, which clashed with my own, Managing Growth – Tech Entrepreneur Series held at e…
- November 14th, 2009
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edocr Launches “edocr Exclusive” an exclusive club for our customers
edocr.com will continue to evolve and grow thanks to our valued customers. We want to help them beyond the growing capability of edocr.com by developing an exclusive club for CxOs of our customers, wh…
- November 13th, 2009
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Crowdsourcing development – Document Replacement
Some of edocr.com customers have requested the ability to replace an existing document with a new document. We would like your help in firming up the specification. Lets take the following document as…
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Insider Dealmakers Awards 2009
Last night (12th Nov 2009), Manchester hosted the Insider Dealmakers Awards 2009, which I could not attend due to clashing with Northern StartUp 2.0 – Managing Growth event I hosted. Below is a…
- November 11th, 2009
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edocr Product Update – Messaging related to document processing
edocr.com provides two ways to upload your document files, these being, single upload and bulkupload. Bulkupload is currently restricted to 25 document files per upload, but you may use bulkupload as…
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Top 10 Speakers I would like to see at RAWNW2010
This is a strange blog post, so please bear with me until I get going. RAW2010, brain child of Mike Perls, the man known simply as “Perls of Wisdom” or the man who would bare all for a pub…
- November 9th, 2009
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StartUp of the Week 2: Vidiactive – Bringing Web Video to TV
On behalf of Northern StartUp 2.0’s StartUpOftheWeek programme, I caught up with Ben Hookway, CEO of Vidiactive to find out about his latest tech startup. Manoj: What made you launch your compa…
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StartUp of the Week 1: Whamoosh – Personalised just got better
This week, I caught up with John Bickley to hear about the recent launch of Whamoosh! A new player in the personalisation business. Applying new technology to revolutionise an established market……
- October 14th, 2009
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Tech Entrepreneur Series – Managing Growth – 12th Nov Manchester
Register at http://www.nwstartup20.co.uk/nov09 High growth technology companies go through many phases; in the case of edocr.com, we recognise five phases in our road map; development, commercial tria…
- October 1st, 2009
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Transforming the textiles landscape past, present and future
I just got back from the inaugural event of UK India Business Council Next Gen North West, which Imran Hakim arranged on behalf of the Board on the textile industry at the University of Bolton. The e…
- September 30th, 2009
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Sage goes free with BillingBoss
It is not often I get to know a new product before Dennis Howlett, especially in the accountancy software market. But it seems Dennis as well as most people at the HQ of Sage in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne ma…
- September 16th, 2009
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I am on Posterous - so what?
Once in a while I come across an application which is so simplistic, you almost get the value proposition immediately. Posterous is such an application. The other application is of course Twitter. Mos…
- August 26th, 2009
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Sri Lankan Cabinet
The Cabinet of Sri Lanka is as follows: Hon. Ratnasiri Wickremanayake - Prime Minister & Minister of Internal AdministrationHon. Milinda Moragoda - Minister of Justice and Law ReformsHon. Dr. Sara…
- August 18th, 2009
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Kings of Leon - Closer
Stranded in this spooky town Stoplight is swaying and the phone lines are down Snow is crackling cold She took my heart, I think she took my soul With the moon I run Far from the carnage of the fiery…
- August 14th, 2009
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My Response to Andrew Scott on Customer Service
This is my response to customer service post written by Andrew Scott, CEO of Rummble, mentor of Tech Mission London 09 and alum of Webmission08 Hey Andrew, interesting thought provoking article. What…
- August 10th, 2009
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Response to TechCrunch article on Scribd
Below is my response to comments posted against above blog post I am struggling to understand why people seems to be against Scribd so much. Given Scribd’s popularity, I can only assume these commen…
- July 18th, 2009
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Response to Sarah Lacy on TechCrunch
This is my response to Sarah Lacy’s recent article on TechCrunch We have never met Sarah, but have heard a lot about you. I run http://www.edocr.com, which I have bootstrapped for well over 2 y…
- June 17th, 2009
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Weekly Newsletter - Tech StartUps and Digital Advocates
This newsletter covers: 1. Next Event: Tech StartUps and Digital Advocates - UMIC, Manchester on 22nd July 2. Membership 3. Sponsor an Administrator 4. Your Feedback 5. Partner Events (The Insider, Ch…
- June 10th, 2009
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Tech Mission London according to Telegraph
This article was written in response to the story appeared on Telegraph FACTS: 1. I organised an event titled "Tech Mission London 09" on 8th June 2009 hosted by Stewart Townsend of Sun Micr…
- May 17th, 2009
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Fierce On Going Battle in Sri Lanka against LTTE - The real battle begins once Prabhakaran is defeated
I have been glued to internet media channels and Twitter since yesterday morning to hear the end of LTTE and Prabhakaran. As the media was regugitating the same story over and over combining it with p…
