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An International Banking Solution for Thing 1 and Thing 2
Back in 2010-2016, when I was advising Australian companies to setup in the UK on behalf of the City of Greater London, one of the most common problems that Small Business & Startups had to deal with was Banking. Two things: Businesses needed a local bank account in a local currency for their business, so…
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Good Revenues
“What makes for good revenues?” You ask. Would you rather own Dollar Shave Club or the Gillette Corporation? Probably the answer is Gillette, because its worth a hell of a lot more. But, the answer could be different tomorrow because of Dollar Shave Club’s good revenues. Gillette was founded in 1904, has 750M customers and…
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The Butcher and the Value Proposition
Every time I hear people working in digital in Australia complaining about potential clients not wanting to pay for their services, or not truly valuing their services, I sigh…. They somewhat viciously call these people, the non payers, the Parasite Economy. But instead; rather than blaming others, perhaps they should be thinking about their own…
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A Home Music Server for AUD$352
Every now and then I like to re-connect with my geek roots. So a couple of years ago I bought the boy a Raspberry Pi computer which pretty much sat there collecting dust after the initial outing. It appears playing games on the computer doesn’t translate to wanting to find out how the computer works. …
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Vision and Coffee
I like coffee. The drink sure, but also the doing. The concept that we can exchange information, ideas and insights much more naturally over a drink, than if we were sitting in a meeting room. For instance, yesterday I had a coffee with a woman who was having difficulty growing her marketing business. There were…
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Strategy, the Accounting Equation and the failure of Arrium
If I remember rightly, the very first thing you learn in Accounting in first Year Uni is the Accounting Equation. The fundamental framework that underlies the recording of a business’s activities. Assets = Liabilities + Shareholder Funds It means that for everything a company has, there is a claim on it by either the owners…
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see the forrest and the trees
My catch phrase this week has been “Think like a Marketer, Act like a Salesperson” A colleague went to raise $16M with a cunning plan. Two investors told him his plan was stupid, not cunning, and he pretty much threw his pitch in the bin. Another colleague deployed some new infrastructure, based on market research…
