Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

A Good Game to buy If you are like me and pass too many hours playing games on your iPad you will have found “The Perfect Tree”, yet another match 3 game to add to a highly saturated market. This one has been thoughtfully made though and is not such a cheap money waster. It […]

Christmas Drinks with Commercialisation Australia Case Managers and Entrepreneurs.

Last night I attended the networking opportunity for mentors and case-managers at the Grace Hotel in Sydney. “Commercialisation Australia is an initiative of the Australian Government. It is a competitive, merit-based assistance program offering funding and resources to accelerate the business building process for Australian companies, entrepreneurs, researchers and inventors looking to commercialise innovative intellectual […]

Loved meeting the young enthusiastic entrepreneurs

I had the best time last night. It was so enjoyable and uplifting to watch so many young people helping each other to start up their ideas. Developers, designers, industry specific employees, and business and marketing specialists all teamed up together to compliment each others skill sets. Their presentations were skilful and fun. Adelaide has […]

Start Up Adelaide a great success

Judging, (seen in the image at left, I am in the stripes), has finished and awards have been excitedly accepted. Congratulations to Data Munch, Toilet Now, Gohail, and Half Time for their winning presentations. Onward and upward. Photos coming soon.

Arrived in Adelaide for the Start Up Weekend.

I had a surprisingly bumpy landing into the airport. The weather was crystal clear and the sun was low in the sky, so I suspect the dipping and diving was the junior pilot practising. Anyway, I’m very excited, here at the Crown Plaza in Hindmarsh Square, getting all tizzied up for the judging event tonight. […]

Private Equity 101

Last week I went to a course In private equity. It was held by AVCAL. The course went for two hours and covered all the basic fundamental concepts of private equity versus venture capital. VC Is the most appropriate funding for start-up businesses and entrepreneurs, after having made your own seed investments and approached business […]

Adelaide entrepreneur and technologist visits Sydney

Frank Falco visited Sydney in October to meet with possible investors in his new project and to attend Tech23. In his down time we visited the new Samsung store and of course the Apple store. Samsung was disappointing in size but the new TV was fantastic. I bought an audio link for my stereo at […]

SA Angels

Attended the August presentation to investors in Adelaide. One to watch David Truong.

Sydney Tech23

I went to theTech23 Conference in Surry Hills during October. Twenty Three up and coming Tech Start-ups presented their business models to a panel of commentators and judges. Ones to watch are Zeptonics and Tap-it.