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Insight on Insight
Have you ever noticed that Entrepreneurs never put an “Out of Office Message” on their email? John Stokes said this to me whilst we were having lunch at the soon to be demolished Rosati’s in Flinders Lane. John is a British Entrepreneur and Venture Capitalist based in Montreal, Canada, where he runs a US$50M fund…
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Selecting your start-up funding source
One of the things that drives me up the wall is hearing the local start-up community complain that the Venture Capital market in Australia isn’t like the US. Of course its not, we are in Australia, a much smaller market, with a completely different culture. The general complaint is that “Venture Capital is so risk…
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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…