VC/Advisors
Behavioral Innovation, the Need To Pivot, Why We Don’t and What We Can Do About It
Written by Christine Thong and Evan Shellshear When was the last time you seriously thought about your blue chip investments →
Is Your Startup Idea Worth Nothing?
The mantra of ideas being worthless can be heard from all corners of the globe. Venture capitalists back founders and not ideas. As mentioned in another blog, in 2009, the entrepreneur and author Seth Godin got the nine of his alternate MBA students to come up with 111 ideas each →
How to Increase Your Capability for Consistently Achieving Exponential Growth
Think about all the vagaries of running a high-technology venture – as executive leaders you need to be setting the vision, formulating strategies for success and operationally attracting and retaining top-level talent, leading and managing teams, sourcing and deploying scarce resources and negotiating ongoing funding rounds, all while building a →
400+ Deals – Top Technology Investments & Acquisitions by Sector – 2014
Thanks to the team at Internet Deal Book for putting together this fantastic report which details the more than 400 Technology Investments and Acquisitions Globally for each Sector for 2014. The report is organised by Sector, has the investors, company and has a link to a background story for each deal →
Bored with Board Meetings? Here is a new board game that can also add value to your company
© Ian Andrew Maxwell Introduction For almost twenty years now I have been ‘enduring’ board meetings. This is a phenomenon that is rarely discussed by those of us that regularly sit on boards; most of us just silently ‘suck it up’. For some people, e.g. independent board members, a board →
New Australian Venture Capital Funds are actively chasing deal flow – The Nuclear Winter is Thawing
I sense the nuclear winter of startup funding in Australia is finally thawing. In the last few months we have →
