What’s the ‘Tell’ of a successful entrepreneur/adviser?
When you first meet an entrepreneur/adviser, how can you tell within the first few minutes whether s/he is likely to be successful/helpful? And worth spending the time to learn more …
Going Global–Start with Your End in Mind
As a first screen for new business opportunities, particularly the tech-kind, my non-tech business partner devised three simple questions to ask our potential partners: 1) is it doable, 2) is …
The Great Creativity Turn Off
Interesting take by Shelly Gare, SMH Good Weekend 6Oct18, on the overuse of the word “innovation” on both sides of the street. Great quote by Mark Dodgson, professor of innovation studies …
Silicon Valley by the Sea
I have had mentoring/investing #investments #mentoring experience in Silicon Valley (CA), Silicon Alley (NY), Silicon Glen (UK), and across our own pond NZ but now, right in our own backyard we have a …
Australian Startup Salary Guide 2018
Think & Grow, a head hunter company, and StartupAUS have published “Australian Startup Salary Guide 2018”. Startups were analysed at three levels of funding: up to $5 million, $5 – …
Why Stock Market Investing is So… Hard
The attached paper to be published in the Journal of Financial Economics, Do Stocks Outperform Treasury bills?, authored by Hendrik Bessembinder (May 2018), Department of Finance, W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University …