Mr Lewis

Tag: entrepreneurship

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Sith Lords & Mentors

    My 5 year old son is addicted to Star Wars. He and I have sat together for hours either watching the movies or endlessly playing Lego Star Wars. It may be bad parenting, but one of my current tools to get him to behave is to say “you can’t start your Jedi training unless you’re…

  • Finding Free Time

    A couple of weeks ago I had a panel at the Churchill Club talking about the differences between Exporters and Global Operators. One of the speakers was Simon Baker (he was great), recently of REA Group who had bought multiple on-line real estate operations while building REA into a global player. Anyway Simon and I…

  • University of Melbourne’s Entrepreneurs Challenge

    So the other week I sat in as a judge at The University of Melbourne Student Entrepreneurs Week.  Melbourne University doesn’t teach entrepreneurship per say, and some of the students are getting a bit antsy about it so have formed their own group called Agents of Change to make thinks happen.  I should note though…

  • Everyone can be in business

    About once a month I go to the movies with a mate of mine, a kind of very tame boys night out.  Anyway, whilst we were having a beer after the movie he mentioned to me that he had run into a women who owns a couple of hair dressing salons in the UK.  Apparently…