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Im a lightweight and loving it, join me
This Tuesday 23 September at 5:15 I’m doing a little presentation and having a discussion on building light weight global businesses at an evening hosted by the New Zealand Institute of Management.
This is going to be super practical and I’m going to use several recent ventures I’m involved with as well as PlanHQ to illustrate. [...]
The Usual Suspects and Starting up a Nation
So after a multi-year crusade of opening much needed dialog and getting his mug and opinion everywhere in the industry and beyond, Rod has thrown in the towel on blogging. Many/most love him to bits, some are sick of him being the centre of attention, Rod long accepted this when building a public profile, thats [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Exports and growing the pie
Reading Rod’s post on the budget, I agree that it looks good, but lacks a focus on exporters. Here’s my comments on the real role of exporters in the economy and how and why tax policy should focus on supporting it.
New Money and the Growing the pie equation:
If I pay less tax on profits made [...]
Webstock Mini - March
Last year the people from web standards New Zealand organised a killer event called Webstock. Webstock pulled in some pretty cool international talent like Kathy Sierra of Creating Passionate Users and local web success Rowan Simpson Development Manager (now ex-shareholder) of Trademe to name a couple. To keep up the momentum in a web space [...]
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