Just a short announcement in name of Manoj Ranaweera regarding new Nothern StartUps Event under the name "Silicon valley and Investment Readiness". He is organizing this event to celebrate the success of visiting the Silicon Valley as one of the 20 most promising UK digital startups (Webmission08). He is also attempting o pull VSc from Silicon valley and need the attendance to improve to about 75 to make it happen.
The event will focus on two areas:
Session 1 - Silicon Valley - why you must build Valley into your plans?
Session 2 - Investment Readiness - Is your startup ready for investment?
Speakers:
Manoj Ranaweera - http://www.edocr.com/ + Webmission08
More speakers to be announced (post Webmission08) including VCs, entrepreneurs and deal makers.
You've all heard of WebMission 2008? I am pretty sure you did from all the blogs throughout the Web. I am not going to go through all that information already spread all around the net, nor I am going to discuss it as hundreads of bloggers have already done. Nothing much is left to be said.
EuropeanStartups is here to give everyone an equal chance to present their business(es) and product(s) to the fast growing audience. I am pretty sure you will not find many blogs or sites, if any, that will for example present a Press Release directly from a startup and by a startup; meaning that the Press Release below is from edocr presented in the edocr environment - their own PDF viewer. I must also note that this is the first edocr's Press Release. Many thanks to Manoj Ranaweera for the heads up!
Edocr plans to attend the StartUp Camp on 7th and 8th March sponsored by Sun Microsystems, and co-hosted by: SalesForce, NaviSite and Google
This is our first time at a StartUp Camp. According to event organisers:
"Startup Camp is an unconference which means you get to decide what the session content is. If you're thinking of coming to Startup Camp London and want to suggest some discussion topics, you're welcome to list them on a special page that we've set aside on the wiki for such discussion proposals"
So far, over 130 individuals have registered for the event. Some of these include Northerners:
Having spend over 3 yrs in the digital startup segment, I am hoping that I would get a time slot to share my experience and learn from others. I expect to cover the following areas:
Soft launching a digital startup under £1000 cash investment
Document interactivity portal - 3 applications from Knowledge Exchange, Marketing Communications Channel for Lead Generation, Event Collaboration
Learning from catastrophic stupidity
Not putting all eggs in the same basket
Is success guaranteed this time? Hell, yes!
As a media partner, edocr has also provided a special interest group (SIG) to capture the conversation through documents (slide packs, press releases, product info, white papers, case studies, etc) and forum. This is a pilot we are running with Sun Microsystems to demonstrate the benefit edocr could bring to event organisers.
If you are an event organiser, why not get in touch to explore how you could add value to your event and differentiate from the crowd?
Edocr Ltd is a UK startup based at Daresbury Innovation Centre, Cheshire. It was founded by Manoj Ranaweera, Rhys Jones, Mike Carter and Chris Haslam in April 2007. Since then, Stuart Scott-Goldstone has joined the team as Legal Counsel.
Edocr is built around a document sharing community where user can upload and tag documents. Community, through a rich environment for document interactivity, interacts with the uploaded document through ranking, commenting or writing to the publisher, e-mailing to friends and colleagues, embedding on to blogs, linking from other sites, and book marking to popular sites. Edocr is targeting two audiences: Publishers of documents and Knowledge seekers. Community interaction is reflected through the importance of feedback to publishers, while at the same time provides a rich resource for knowledge seekers.
"Most companies spend resources in optimizing their corporate web sites for Search. Whilst web sites contain significant amount of outline information, most of details that a prospective customer need to evaluate your offer is disseminated through documents such as product literature, product updates, newsletters, white papers and case studies. Businesses spend a significant amount of energy and resources in producing these documents, yet the documents are not optimized for Search. Even if a company request reader details before a document can be downloaded, there is no simple way of a reader to provide feedback or a way to interact with the author or publisher and other readers of that document. It makes it nearly impossible to understand the return on investment on your public facing documents. After all, the point of producing these documents in the first place is to increase awareness of the subject matter and initiate engagement.
Edocr resolves this issue by providing a rich environment for document interaction free of charge, leading to feedback on your documents, which could in return leads to design of better products and services as well as finding new prospects, partners, investors or team members."
I would like to discuss with the community the issue of how start-ups should operate. Whether it is more reasonable to be virtual company with employees working from home. Or is it still more efficient to get together in one physical office every day.
I'd like to get the community's thoughts on when to start looking for formal advisers? Is it even necessary? If so, what are some of the strategies that can help find great advisers.
Both my co-founder and I are not techies. We are developing a pretty complex web app and we decided to have an internal team of 2 developers to start with. Now the costs of in-house London based developers is a bottleneck for our growth and we're looking abroad to find cheap and talented people to w
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Just a short announcement in name of Manoj Ranaweera regarding new Nothern StartUps Event under the name "Silicon valley and Investment Readiness". He is organizing this event to celebrate the success of visiting the Silicon Valley as one of the 20 most promising UK digital startups (Webmission08). He is also attempting o pull VSc from Silicon valley and need the attendance to improve to about 75 to make it happen.
Manoj Ranaweera
