Selecting your start-up funding source
By brendan at 11 February, 2010, 8:01 pm
One of the things that drives me up the wall is hearing the local start-up community complain that the Venture Capital market in Australia isn’t like the US. Of course its not, we are in Australia, a much smaller market, with a completely different culture.
The general complaint is that “Venture Capital is so risk averse [...]
Just stop it – There is no secret
By brendan at 27 April, 2009, 1:30 pm
Really, Just stop it.
In the last 7 days I have a couple of experiences with quite dramatic contrast. On the one had I have been asked for a number of people (I’ll call them Startup Groupies) for support in getting their pitch ready for investors. On the other hand I have been for coffee with [...]
Marketing Budgets for Bootstrapping
By brendan at 9 April, 2009, 9:36 am
A long time ago I studied Accounting at Monash University (well it seems like a long time ago). When I did it I was in a small sub group who had plenty of varied work experience. In fact at that stage I had been a software engineer, salesman, army officer and had started and had [...]
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