Archive for April, 2008

Hard or soft serve?

By admin at 23 April, 2008, 12:32 pm

Last year I met with a British researcher who was out in Australia to talk about Innovation policy.  From my point of view, the interesting thing about David Connell was that not only was he a researcher at Cambridge, but he was also, until recent years, the CEO of a Venture Capital fund specializing in [...]

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From Kitchen table to IPO – Pick up the New Skills

By admin at 18 April, 2008, 6:34 pm

Last week I talked about the selecting your Advisors when going public that came out of the Churchill Club programme “from Kitchen table to IPO”. which we ran on the 17th April.   We were joined by Silvio Salom of Adacel Technologies Ltd , Leon Lau of Peoplebank Ltd and Michael Abela of Mobi Ltd . [...]

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From Kitchen Table to IPO – Select your Advisor carefully

By admin at 18 April, 2008, 1:43 pm

Last week I talked about the strategy for going public that came out of the Churchill Club programme “from Kitchen table to IPO”. which we ran on the 17th April. We were joined by Silvio Salom of Adacel Technologies Ltd , Leon Lau of Peoplebank Ltd and Michael Abela of Mobi Ltd .. This week [...]

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From Kitchen Table to IPO – What’s your strategy?

By admin at 18 April, 2008, 1:21 pm

During the dotcom era, the Holy Grail was to found a technology company, get capital, list it then move on. But very few achieved this. In fact the few that did setup business that listed generally hung around and had some fascinating learning experiences on the way. So on the 17th April at the Churchill [...]

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Square Rooted

By admin at 15 April, 2008, 3:45 pm

Sometimes little bits of ubiquitous technology are much more useful than meets the eye, sometimes not. Consider the square root key on a calculator. Outside of high school, only a handful of engineers seem to use it. But it’s on every single calculator despite the fact that 99% of the population isn’t actually sure what [...]

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