Musings for the entrepreneurially minded
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Software on Jul 7th, 2015
This is the story of JARtool. A simple MS Access application that ended up running USD $2bn worth of quotes through before it was superseded. It was also the seed that would grow and ultimately lead into a startup. It is 1998 I had just joined Sun Microsystems Australia as an Account Executive for service […]
Posted in Entrepreneurship on Nov 7th, 2012
When I look lately at the new things that have been “innovated” I’m hard pressed to find anything that is extremely original, back-to-basics and is a complete reinvention of a common item. That was until I discovered the new camera designed by a new Silicon Valley start-up called Lytro which has revolutionised photography. The camera […]
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Flying, Travel on Apr 3rd, 2012
On an American Airlines flight between Los Angeles and New York in December 2010, I looked into the seat pocket and found an information card on the inflight internet service that was available. Looking for a way to kill some of the time on this long flight and curious about what the internet performance would be […]
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Software on Mar 19th, 2012
An interesting iPhone App that I’ve used quite regularly is AutoStitch for taking panoramic photos. How it works is you stand in one spot and take a series of photos as you turn around on the spot. Each photo you take should overlap adjacent photos. The AutoStitch app then “stitches” the photos together to make […]
Posted in Entrepreneurship on Mar 17th, 2012
On a recent trip to the US I was browsing around a surf shop and came across a GoPro stand. For those that don’t know what a GoPro is it is a small “wearable” waterproof and shockproof camera that can mounted on helmets, handlebars, roll-cages, surfboards etc and is targeted at adventure photography to record action video of […]
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Life and Self, Software on Sep 3rd, 2010
Over the last 8 years I have built two companies from scratch. Zero to greater than $1m AUD in annual turnover. Mind you both companies are not doing greater than $1m in annual turnover now but that is a different story! So what I intend to do over the next few weeks is build a business […]
Posted in Entrepreneurship on Jun 24th, 2007
At the end of the financial year I gather up key staff and retreat to a place where quality time can be spent planning. The interruption free environment allows us to throw away what we have done so far, start with a fresh canvas and create the future. There are planning events continuously throughout the year […]
Posted in Entrepreneurship on Apr 9th, 2007
The ANZA Gateway to the US Conference was held over 3 days in late October 2006 at Silicon Valley’s newest incubator facility Plug and Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale. For a start-up in the SaaS space the setup at the Plug and Play Tech Center would be ideal. Shobeir Shobeiri, the Business Relationship Manager for […]
Posted in Entrepreneurship on Oct 21st, 2006
Getting the creative juices going amongst staff can be a challenge at times. All too often they are heads down beavering away doing the day to day stuff to think about innovating and turning those ideas into commercial realities. How do you solicit those ideas from them? My approach is to take staff out of […]
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Software on Sep 22nd, 2006
November last year we outsourced a significant part of our software development to India. We engaged a company in Bangalore to assist us in driving a number of initiatives. The engagement was a combination of dedicated resources and fixed cost project type work. The dedicated resource part of the engagement was setup such we considered […]