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  • Event Report – The USA on Australian Technology Firms

    From the Churchill Club Event on the 30th April 2009 Two questions were put to two Americans, and an Australian whom had just picked up $5M of investment from an American VC in the middle of the Global Financial Crisis: One – How do Americans see Australian technology firms moving into the USA, and Two…

    May 12, 2009
  • 3 questions around a good idea…

    Last week I mentioned I was going to have lunch with an old workmate Glenn to discuss an idea he been asked to get involved with.  I responded to his initial email in detail about things to think about in regards to getting involved, but not whether the idea was a good one in the…

    May 11, 2009
  • Some freebies for equity

    When Glenn and I went our separate ways many years ago it was because he wanted our business to be more about lifestyle than I did. He wanted the office to have New York attic style windows and be above a coffee shop. I felt we had to keep our belts a lot tighter so…

    May 6, 2009
  • Remote Access update

    Ages ago I wrote about remote access to your pc via free product called VNC.  However I have just discovered that it doesn’t work as well as it used to, as the free product doesn’t work with Windows Vista.  And Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Connection software doesn’t work with all versions of Vista (its there, just…

    May 4, 2009
  • Favours in meetings

    The other day I had a catchup coffee with Scott Kilmartin ( known as @ScottKilmartin on twitter ) where we were having a discussion about his very cool business Haul, and the life of the entrepreneur.  Haul has a couple of different levels but to the man on the street, they recycle and retail.  Think…

    April 29, 2009
  • Just stop it – There is no secret

    Really, Just stop it. In the last 7 days I have a couple of experiences with quite dramatic contrast.  On the one had I have been asked for a number of people (I’ll call them Startup Groupies) for support in getting their pitch ready for investors.  On the other hand I have been for coffee…

    April 27, 2009
  • Event Report – The Future of Search

    From the Churchill Club Event on the 16th April 2009 A great evening on trends in search online, asking questions around “are search engines still effective” and “where is the money being made tomorrow”? Our panel was: Angela Beesley Starling – Chair of the Wikipedia foundation, Co-founder and vice-president of Wikia Alan Long – Research…

    April 20, 2009
  • 12 Essential Freebies for the GFC.

    So Michel Hogan and I got invited together to a lunch on Friday. As part of our back chatter (using the free Skype Instant Messenger), I pointed out that if I tried really hard, I could probably eat for free during the week, in fact you could elevate it to an artform. So having been…

    April 16, 2009
  • 6 steps to Blog Heaven

    The another day Amanda Gome rang me for some advice on how to run her business to have a chat about some future events. We got to talking about blogging and how difficult it was.  I was in the first group of Bloggists for Smartcompany (around 20 of us) of which there is now only…

    April 9, 2009
  • Marketing Budgets for Bootstrapping

    A long time ago I studied Accounting at Monash University (well it seems like a long time ago).   When I did it I was in a small sub group who had plenty of varied work experience.  In fact at that stage I had been a software engineer, salesman, army officer and had started and had…

    April 9, 2009
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