Revenue Model Innovation
By brendan at 2 April, 2011, 6:17 pm
Over a decade ago, I made the acquaintance of CIO of a major Bank, and asked him to become involved in my small IT services business which was growing like a rocket; 0-$2M revenue in year one. He declined, and said that “he didn’t find our business model scalable”. After the rejection I thought “how [...]
Read More >>Superprofits from the Arcade
By brendan at 4 October, 2010, 12:24 pm
I just spent a week down on the Mornington Peninsula with the kids over school holidays. I tried to keep my mind on Kite flying and mucking about at the beach, but I came a across a small business that I found just fascinating in how they generated their revenues. On first glance it appeared [...]
Read More >>5 Olympic Sized Opportunities
By brendan at 25 May, 2010, 6:41 pm
Having recently done a bit of work with people from the City of London, I have suddenly, but probably not strangely, become aware of the next Olympics due in July 2012 in London. Its also come to my attention that a number of Australian firms, that aren’t what you’d exactly call “sport” or “building” companies, [...]
Read More >>Lessons from the Adult Entertainment Industry
By brendan at 8 December, 2008, 2:39 pm
Fiona Patten and I were both born in 1964. At around 26 I made a major change in my life and moved from Western Australia to Victoria. I had actually planned to move to NSW, but never quite made it there as my intermediate move to Melbourne kept on getting extended. 18 years later with [...]
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