Drawing Financial Reports

By brendan at 15 December, 2010, 8:48 am

My boss made me present financial reports as drawings. Along time ago when I wore an accountants hat, I used to work for a multinational engineering group that had a lot of operations in Asia. My boss was a Filipino who lived in the US, had been a managing partner of Arthur Anderson and was [...]

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People in the Ecosystem

By brendan at 16 September, 2009, 11:22 am

In recent years I have met with vast numbers of people that didn’t even come close to living up to how they represented themselves.  This has led to a desire for me (see how I’m avoiding angry words) to share some of my more bitter definitions of people in the entrepreneurship ecosystem.   Now these don’t [...]

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5 reasons why commercialisation isn’t business

By admin at 3 July, 2008, 4:11 pm

I’m feeling a bit feisty, so I thought I might bring up the topic of commercialisation. I have just finished up directing an interesting all day forum for the InnovationXchange on the intersection of food and pharmaceuticals.  During the conference, I found out that we (Australian Scientists) now have the capability to treat a number [...]

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