VC and Private Equity Houses

Here is my working list of useful VC connections

Entrepreneur handbook

London Startup Ecosystem

Notion.vc 

Possible interesting place to pay for a review https://alltopstartups.com/2014/09/01/promising-startups-in-the-uk/ 

The power of the edu link and a lady from Parkistan

I've been trying out a test this week, following from a conversation with a young lady in Pakistan, it can only happy online face it!

She has shown me the benefits or at least in her opinion the benefits to be gained from listing on a variety of edu sites, the theory goes that sites like these are seen as reputable because universities have themselves good reputations and attract a lot of links.

Not sure if this really is that important these days but some of the sites I've seen do appear to have really strong DA and PA scores so it may be OK.

Anyway students at these universities have kindly published articles about my site so I'll now wait and see if this has any benefit.

It hasn't cost me anything so I've really not lost anything.

Here are this week's contributions, not all Edu sites but recommended by the same girl

Pitchengine - this is about Thomas cook the now bust UK travel agent, I went on a few of their package holidays so this upsets me to see them mismanaged in the way they have been but it always results in the same tragic end.

Community Today - a great post about us in this popular US news site.

I am adding more posts during this week so hopefully during the next week or so I'll see if a bunch of links like this makes any difference or not.

We are expecting our IOS app to go live this week also so it may be hard to tell which one is causing any difference I would guess that a number of links on the iTunes site would be much stronger but you never know.

Interesting times as they say!

Flipboard

Trying out Flipboard for the first time this weekend, it seems a little like Mix which I enjoy already, just getting the hang of it.

I am not sure if you can publish content on it directly for example, anyway I will keep working away as usual and report back.

So far my Flipboard is here

Underneath it there are sub boards I have built the following

Bermuda Flipboard - covering posts mostly from my Bermudianlife blog but not entirely.
Reporting Accounts  - posts from our Reporting Accounts site

Getting the hang of it a bit, you have to build your own topics follow others then flip things in.

Having spent some time on it, I can see that it is fun and good quality something like Mix but with better quality content, Google seemed to index my home page fast also which is another good sign, they are getting better and better and sussing out quality places and better and better at spotting low quality.

So I am something of a convert at the moment, but I don't know how much benefit i will get from it, I'll work on it for a while and come back and update you all.

Some nice places today

I've had a good day today on the outreach, a good response from some key partners and I've picked up some hopefully solid links back to our site as part of the discussions.

The International Monetary fund runs a blog and we have contributed to their discussions about the Philippines.

My Gravator is doing nicely and I've blogged my icon link in a good selection of places.

I've been involved with Blogger for some time, but I recently set a new blogger up, I really should focus on my more established accounts but creating something new is kind of fun also.

The European Union has a great discussion forum which I came across only by chance, but I've already joined a lot of groups that match my interests in Finance and enviromental issues.  This is one I am going to keep checking back on, because I can see it matches a lot of my interests outside of the internet, politics for one!

Experiment is a great science crowdfunding site, really wish I had found that one sooner as I am really enjoying supported great science and tech projects.

Google Redirection I sometimes see these from time to time but I don't know what causes them.

So a great day today, really interested to see if any of the above get picked up and if they do, if that makes any difference!

Crowfunding places

This week I've been supporting some new projects via a range of crowdfunding sites, these are relatively new but a great concept, it allows people to source funding from all around the world to push their projects.

It is suprising how many people like to support such ventures. For example

Medical research - I supported a few projects undertaking medical research

Experiment - this is a great site and supports scientific research, as a graduate biologist this type of approach really appeals to me. 

I also support a homeless organisation in London who helps people get back into work and sort out their lives - all of these are very worthwhile and excellent causes.

Prestashop a great free script

For many years I owned and ran a Technology business offering a wide range of web services, domain names, webhosting, web design and app development.  After some time experimenting with different platforms we decided to focus on Prestashop the great thing about this script is that it is free and comes with a large base of developers, there are for example free and paid modules available.

There is also a third party market place for modules so you can mostly find a module that does anything you are looking for.  We found for example a module to integrate prestashop with Sage Line 50 so your accounts dont need data entry and sales and payments get posted automatically to your ledgers.

For years it was one of my favs

I Just joined their community its been many years since I was involved but I am dealing with some startup businessses at the moment who are looking for eccomerce platforms so it helps to have a hand in there to see what has gone on since I sold my businesses and what is new with Prestashop.

Another great place I sometimes visit and make use of is spark, wbich is a publishing platform run by Adobe the guys who do the PDF sofware, check out business research on spark which is one of my article on there.

Firefox the best browser

I've always found Firefox to be the best browser, for me Internet Explorer was always a bit slow and clunky, then along came Chrome, but the issue with Google is that you have no expectation of privacy and they have a vested interest in using your browing data to improve their own Search Engine experience.

Firefox on the other hand is independent and has developed a really great brower experience by being more focused on that.  Chrome is catching up I have to admit and Firefox does sell its data though not in granular form ie you can't trace your own browsing patterns from it.

This week we have launched a Firefox Addon this is my first experience of developing an application for Firefox and it really is great to be working with them in this way.   I've noticed also their theme options and are looking for a developre with experience of that so we can launch a theme or two of our own.

Hopefully some traffic and trust will transfer from our page on the Mozilla Firefox site down to Reporting Accounts what is new page.