manojranaweera

There are many benefits including trying out something new without jeopardising your career.

Life is not just about making money. Some wants to get involved in exciting things. See where it might leads to.

These are not jobs. Have you never given your time free?

Do you know volunteers help many commercial organisations, from marshalling Formula 1 races to help in running exhibitions, etc?

Volunteer in the UK is defined as someone not gaining financially as well as from a benefit in kind.

Share options and warrants fall under benefit in kind.

What started as a project to rescue our tech startups when Covid 19 hit, we are looking at creating a Volunteer Market Place for tech startups.

Everyone's familiar with UpWork, Fiverr and Freelancer. Their business model is proven.

But what about a similar place where people give their time to help a bootstrapped tech startup?

Do you think this has legs?

We trialled with 20 tech startups and 100 volunteers. All startups are from the UK right now. 90% of volunteers are from UK as well, but there are few from the USA, Sri Lanka and Australia.

Keen to understand whether it's possible to build tech companies, especially pre-investment with employees, contractors and volunteers.

Thanks, Manoj

Thetaboard is also integrated with edocr.com now and should see traffic filtering from us, as more and more people become aware of the benefits Thetaboard brings

Yeap! its taken bit longer than we initially anticipated

I doubt Jon has hit a rough patch - perhaps more like, staying with a friendly tech entrepreneur whilst in town rather than spending another night in a hotel room

It's great to see how far Thetaboard has come since we met them on nReduce. Next stage for us is to see an integration with edocr.com - something to discuss when we welcome them to sunny Manchester, UK on Monday. More info www.techcelerate.org/aug2012

Good analysis Joel. Good to see you blossom into a successful tech entrepreneur (and a famous one now - the north west love you!). www.edocr.com must be one of the few tech companies to had the privilege to work with both OnePage and Buffer, and hopefully whatever you do after Buffer!

I am glad you did not take my advice on Buffer! You saw an opportunity (I didn't see) and went after it.

We should review edocr/buffer integration after we launch Hootsuite app! Will let you know as soon as we go live!

Keep up the good work mate!

Hey Joel, sounds like you guys are flying. Why not hire from Manchester, UK? Try here http://techcelerate.org/job-board or http://www.facebook.com/groups/193730410734286/

Great news! well done. Love to welcome you to Tech Centre Manchester - perhaps an event to introduce Lanyrd to the North West community

Love to know how you manage your raw contacts

Hi Jason,

I cannot wonder thinking..if you were a board member, you had a duty of care to know all affairs of the company (within reason), especially under good corporate governance. If as DHH is implying that Groupon is misleading potential investors with CSOI (ok, they may have used this metric after you left - but I am just trying to make a point here), and if you believed this is incorrect, then you would still have a duty to point out as a board member, even if your responsibility is purely on product design. I thought this is how it works on large boards. Is this not the case in the USA?

I have made the assumption here that if DHH saw it, so would you! Of course, I could be completely wrong with this assumption.

I have only been on the board of small companies, so do not have any experience of how large companies split responsibilities.

Would be interesting to know your thoughts on this subject - this is not meant as a complain of any sort, just trying to understand how large corporates behaves with corporate governance.

companies confirmed:

www.capsulecrm.com www.edocr.com www.canddi.com www.WebEnableIT.com www.yrfee.com www.stardotstar.com www.iManagePlus.com www.shapingcloud.com www.studioskylab.com www.assuredsale.com

Have you ever thought of joining a tech startup and making a significant difference? But the prospect of finding the right startup and learning how to join them might have been a mystery until now. Big companies have a well laid out recruitment process. Startups, in some cases, don't even have an office, let along a well structured recruitment process. Most startups tend to hire friends or based on recommendations.

This event is a special event designed to demystify the startup recruitment process. How do you know whether the startup you are speaking to is a good company to work for? How much salary and/or equity should you expect at different stages of a startup? What does share options tied to service means? Are there any danger signs you should watch for? We will try to answer these types of questions.

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Hi, We are thinking about the same issue. Hence http://www.techcelerate.org/apr10workshop. Let us know if anyone fancy joining via video link?