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Outsourcing Offshore
Finding worthy topics to discuss was the highest priority when I started the Churchill Club 5 years ago, so I sought advice from a number of quite senior people on what they thought were issues that mattered to the technology start-up community. And like most advice in the world, it turned out to be horribly…
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Event Report – The 3D Printing Opportunity 17 Mar 11
My Event Report from the 3D Printing Opportunity 17-Mar-11 with Andy Gelme – President, Connected Community Hackerspace Travis Hardy – Market Development Manager, Formero Milan Brandt – Professor of Advanced Manufacturing at RMIT University Anthony Lele – Leaderof the Structured Ideation Process, Invetech What is it all about? At its simplest 3D printing could be…
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Creating Real Life
3D is fascinating to me at the moment. Not the insipid, head ache inducing versions being pedalled out at the cinema and on new TV’s, but the real life version. Firstly I was fascinated with the Kinect. The Kinect, if you don’t know, is the game control system for the XBOX that Microsoft released. But…
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Event Report – Outsource Offshore 10-Mar-11
From the Churchill Club event of 1oth March 2011 With Pete Williams – Founder, Preneur Marketing Alex Levashov – Principal, Altima Interactive Linh Hoang – Owner, Red & Black Solutions Notes by Brendan Lewis What are we talking about here? In simple terms, outsourcing offshore means you can: Build an validate web based business quickly…
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A quick story about Capital Raising and Romance
I met just before Christmas with a chap recently who wanted to raise capital to help in franchising his business, which I will decline to name for reasons that become obvious soon. I, however, thought it was a bit early to try to raise capital as his business wasn’t particularly systemised, exciting or potentially lucrative.…
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Turning waste into PR
I went to hear from Tom Griffith of Emma and Tom’s fruit juices at The Hive the other day. Apparently in their early days, their minimum production runs were always more than they could sell, which was a problem as their stock was highly perishable. Their clever solution was to use this excess as sponsorship…
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Event Report from the Churchill Club’s – Serious Play
Notes taken by me at the Churchill Club programme on the 17th February 2011. With Bill Lang – Founder, Scores on the Board Gilda Howard – CEO, Gowrie Victoria Trudi Pavlovsky – Founder, The Dream Initiative What is Play? Play is activity that is normally; enjoyable, not motivated by a desired completion, not motivated by…
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Cloudy computing with a chance of showers
A great label for a technical product can work wonders for consumer takeup. See Blue Ray Vs HD-DVD, iPod v’s MP3 Player, Blackberry V’s Symbion O/S. Which leads me to Cloud Computing. I don’t generally like Cloud computing because internet access isn’t ubiquitous in Australia. Generally wireless access is good for around 40km from the…