Building Successful Web Businesses
The escalator program has organised a day forum in Auckland on Wednesday June 11 and Wellington June 18 specifically for web businesses starting up or at early stage who are serious about succeeding online. This is going to be a no BS, open environment where every business in NZ trying to succeed online gets together [...]
Building a Profitable Company
Sometimes you spend your money, sometimes you raise some off others, but in the end the aim is always be to build a profitable company.
Consulting and Side Product Development
My first business was profitable from day one, consulting. I saved plenty from this and in parallel quietly started self funding a product development, hired a couple [...]
A US VC’s perspective on NZ web companies
I chat pretty regularly to a lot of VC’s in the US, and on my last trip in September and October I had a startupTV camera capturing a few discussions I had with some VC’s. While I get what I want for PlanHQ out of these discussions, with these meets I went out of my [...]
Can you fill my funnel? then contact me
One thing that I notice a shortage of in the network is people who are good at web marketing, specifically people who can take an existing site generating revenue and get it visible and consistently drive traffic through search engines and referrals.
Using PlanHQ as an example:
We get a certain number of visitors
A percentage who sign-up [...]
NZ’s top 10 online startups
A new magazine profiling New Zealand’s growing online startup community launched last month called StartUp. The first edition (December 07) went out with Unlimited magazine, so if you haven’t got a copy grab it and check it out, and at least pop into the StartUp website and check out some great video and other content.
Stand [...]
A big year… but just warming up
It’s been a big year in Silicon Welly, and NZ hi-tech and online activity has seen some good results. Some first timers this year, that I look forward to seeing repeated again and again next year and beyond. We’ve seen our first ever online startup listed on the stock exchange (Xero), a feat on many [...]
After DEMO - 8 minutes with Tim & Koz
I started the day of our DEMO firmly rooted singing along with The Black Seeds - Good People Get Together (Love that song!) while ironing my shirt, reciting my 6 minute DEMO in the shower twice. A couple of days later, after working the stand, strategic partnership and sales opportunities and investment discussions with VC’s [...]
PlanHQ Launches at DEMO
It’s been a brilliant last month for PlanHQ over here in the US, and after presenting at Office 2.0 on getting things done a few weeks ago, working the floor at Techcrunch40, we just this last week completed the build up with our official global launch at DEMO. If you want to Make it Happen [...]
PlanHQ speaking at Office 2.0 Conference
I’m off to San Francisco next week speaking about PlanHQ at Office 2.0.
The Office 2.0 conference attracted around 700 web office / software as a service (saas) thought leaders and investors from around the globe last year and is set to do the same again this year. With some 50+ tech/saas sponsors I would have [...]
Event - Going Global from the Web
As part of Export year 07, We are holding an event about going global from the web and how we’ve done it so far with PlanHQ. We’re still quite early days with PlanHQ, but over 70% of our customers are international, mostly US, and we’ve managed to attract and secure custom from small startups to [...]
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