Musings for the entrepreneurially minded
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 Life and Self on Jul 31st, 2010
Recently I had an opportunity to visit my daughter’s classroom and was amazed at the degree of technology in the classroom today. Multi-media was everywhere. What an amazing vehicle to facilitate learning. I came across what must be the ultimate multimedia educational tool – animation. This is a brilliant, 10 minute video of a talk […]
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 on Jul 30th, 2006
This book is worthy of reading for any entrepreneur. This book is a practical how-to guide for overcoming the hurdles that all entrepreneurs face when starting and growing a business. Serial entrepreneurs Matthew Michalewicz and Zbigniew Michalewicz provide countless out-of-the-box solutions for: Winning that first major client Signing up partners and resellers Building an all-star […]