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The 5 Intangibles of Raising Funding
In mid 1999, I had a multimedia business called Carradale Associates. Apart from building websites, we were starting to do some cool work in online animation and getting some fairly interesting insights into online business. One of those insights was that an online auction business would do well in Australia. At that stage, Ebay was…
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Sticky Labels
Instead of writing some amazing strategy insight, I thought Id pass on a simple tip that will save you time and frustration when dealing with your computer. When I started an IT Services business called Edion in 2000, we had one spare computer used for centrally storing and sharing all our stuff. This file server…
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Hard or soft serve?
Last year I met with a British researcher who was out in Australia to talk about Innovation policy. From my point of view, the interesting thing about David Connell was that not only was he a researcher at Cambridge, but he was also, until recent years, the CEO of a Venture Capital fund specializing in…
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From Kitchen Table to IPO – What’s your strategy?
During the dotcom era, the Holy Grail was to found a technology company, get capital, list it then move on. But very few achieved this. In fact the few that did setup business that listed generally hung around and had some fascinating learning experiences on the way. So on the 17th April at the Churchill…
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Square Rooted
Sometimes little bits of ubiquitous technology are much more useful than meets the eye, sometimes not. Consider the square root key on a calculator. Outside of high school, only a handful of engineers seem to use it. But it’s on every single calculator despite the fact that 99% of the population isn’t actually sure what…