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Accessing IP from the big end of town
He’s an interesting thing, the most prolific inventor currently in the world (by number of US patents lodged) is actually an Australian by the name of Kia Silverbrook. Kia runs an outfit called Silverbrook Research out of Sydney. However the most prolific companies are the usual suspects. According to CNET in 2009 the most prolific…
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Do you have the right background to win at small business?
A source of regular marital disharmony at my house is how issues at work should be solved. The end point of these conversations is generally one of us not speaking to the other for 10 minutes. My wife has spent almost her entire career working for large enterprises. I however have spent the majority of…
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How to monetise anything – part IV
Last post I continued the discussion on “How do I monetise anything” with a look at the value in a situation. This, the final post in the series, looks at identifying the Packaging that your monetisation should take. Packaging When I say packaging, I mean how things are packaged up, or what’s in the bundle…
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How to monetise anything – part II
Last post I looked at the question “how do I monetise this” and suggested framework for monetising, as per the below. This post I want to look at identifying the attributes of a situation you want to monetise. Identifying the Attributes The first thing you want to do in any situation you want to monetise,…
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How to monetise anything – part I
I drink a lot of coffee. Unless I have decided to be completely anti-social I normally meet someone for coffee twice day. Its part of my investment in networking. First meetings tend to be more wide ranging as we get to know each other, and downstream meetings are normally focussed on a specific problem. But…
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How to get help
The other week I had coffee with Chris Stewart who is a Melbourne based entrepreneur and strategic foresight consultant. Both Chris and I have lots of different skill sets and we both enjoy starting new ventures. We tend to catch up around once or twice a year and discuss what “wisdom” we have gained since…
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Whats in it for the Elite?
I’ve been thinking about two sided markets a lot lately. Two sided markets are where two distinct customer groups are serviced by the same provider and the existence both customer groups provides value to the other. Eg Computer Games. Computer Game Developers need lots of consumers with a platform for them to be able to…
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wanna get lucky?
So at a recent Churchill Club function in our Innovation thinking stream, we ran fascinating event Luck. As part of the panel, we brought up a chap called Jason Bresnehan from Tasmania to talk. Jason is a corporate advisor who last year decided to start writing articles about becoming luckier. Jason had started to wonder…