Entrepreneurship
Introduction Today is one of the days you'll remember for the rest of your life. It might be because you feel proud - it is the culmination of thousands of hours work and study. It might be because you feel relieved - no more cramming for exams and
Entrepreneurship
Over the last couple of years, I've been getting increasingly concerned about the future of our city. Leaving aside the rot exposed through the ICAC investigation, I've been mostly worried the future of the city from an economic perspective. Are we going to be a place
BusinessWeb
<Update> Dec 2012: So, it looks like Christmas has come early. As mentioned in my April update below, the SSN barrier has been impossible to overcome. Until now. Thankfully, the legends at Stripe (Disclosure - AffinityLive pays them a lot of money, they don't know we
General
Tonight I was lucky enough to meet Eric Ries, the founder/leader of the Lean Startup movement. Eric came to Sydney after being coaxed to this side of the Pacific by our ever resourceful and impressive friends, the Kiwi's, for Webstock, and Mick Liubinskas and Michelle Williams did
BusinessWeb
I've spent a lot of time over the last few months doing marketing planning for Hiive Systems. Unfortunately, our product is targeted at the professional services sector - think consultants, creatives, advisors, and that sort of thing. I've been really conscious in this marketing process NOT
Entrepreneurship
The third #publicsphere event was held in Wollongong yesterday (with nodes in Melbourne and Brisbane joining in). With all things that involve an open forum and public consultation, there will be some good bits, and some bits that don't quite do it for you. In terms of contributions
Entrepreneurship
I was lucky enough this week to be a guest of the team from Kells at a lecture they ran in Wollongong, featuring the acclaimed Simon Longstaff from the St James Ethics Centre. The morning lecture, which went for about an hour, with more than half an hour of questions
Entrepreneurship
After spending yesterday afternoon in the office in a hack-a-thon - hat tip to Glenn for joining me - and much of today getting a plan together for CeBIT this year, I was feeling pretty amped about the month and a half ahead and the challenges therein. So it was
BusinessWeb
CeBIT is happening in a month and a bit in Sydney, and this year they've decided to focus the eyes of the tens of thousands of show visitors on a new showcase section, called Webciety. Webciety is going to showcase a dozen of Australia's hottest web-software
BusinessWeb
I wasn't that surprised to read Mike's post today about some really bad stuff happening over the last 6 months. I didn't know the details until I read them on TechCrunch, but I knew something was up when I messaged him to let him
Entrepreneurship
Just a few late night reflections on the (Sydney-centred) Australian Startup Community, and more particuarly, SiliconBeachAustralia.org at the centre of it. While I've personally been playing the startup game on and off for a while now (first with Internetrix, which is now pretty established, then Omnidrive that
BusinessWeb
I recently got a letter from a law firm in the US, alleging that my new business, Hiive Systems, has infringed their trademark. Unfortunately for them, the best they could do in claiming a trade mark was allege our logo was similar to theirs (we don't think it