New Partnership with Hatch Works to accelerate Sri Lankan tech startups

Hatch Works and SkilledUp Life

I’m more than thrilled to announce our second accelerator partnership, this time with Hatch Works from Sri Lanka. I had the pleasure to run an event at Hatch Works in early November whilst I was in Sri Lanka with Mithun and Wishma. The resulting partnership was signed as a direct result of discussions that took […]

SkilledUp Life bridging the global talent and skills gap

SkilledUp Life bridging the talent gap

To conceive and readily opt to go on a journey of building a tech startup is no small decision. You should be prepared  – resources, talents, grit and all. Without any of these, you are on for a long walk to failure. But what if you had a lifeline on the talent side? I’d say […]

Four ways Volunteer talent is changing how tech startups scale

Over the past 28 months, SkilledUp Life has been able to grow its volunteer base from 0 to 16,477 (at the time of writing this post). Our passion-driven vision is to set up, grow and improve early-stage tech startups by providing unlimited free talent. As our Founder and CEO, Manoj Ranaweera says fondly, “SkilledUp Life […]

Build your tech startup with SkilledUp Life Volunteers

Got an idea for a tech startup? Chances are you likely do not have the funds to get things going. This is a very familiar road and many have gone this way before. For some, dreams were shattered due to lack of finances; for others largely due to lack of technical know-how. But what if […]

SkilledUp Life supports the underdog

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The world is organised to support winners. Everyone loves a winner. Every investor is looking for the next unicorn. Less than 1% of tech startups get funded. Who is looking after the rest? We are! SkilledUp Life is looking for the underdogs those who get rejected by Venture capitalists. those who get rejected by angel […]

When was the last time you acquired 100 users in a day?

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I have forgotten what it feels like to score a century. I acquired 200,000 users for edocr.com single-handedly but it took many years, from 2007 to 2015. But this time, all our user acquisition is by Mithun and the Volunteer team, with our superstar Volunteer Godwin. Our volunteer user acquisition team is now 5 strong and we […]

SkilledUp Life helping you to go from £0 to £10k MRR

£0 to £10k MRR

Setting up a tech startup is easy, but building a scalable tech company is harder. It’s especially harder if you have to bootstrap the business. Some founders are good at building products but suck at selling. Others are good at commercialisation, but lack the know-how to build products. Even if you have the know how […]