Almost every time I meet someone with a great idea they are so focused on the problems associated with the idea that they lose touch entirely with the fact that the solution comes from raising capital. If the vision is strong enough there is invariably an infinite amount of capital available to help realize […]
I met with a student last week who is about to join the class that I co-ordinate. I hesitate to use the word teach, because to me the word “teaching” implies that one person tells the other what to do. While I try to impart a huge amount of useful and relevant information to the […]
Innovation has been a hot topic for quite a while. Recently it seems to have gone mainstream. Companies want to innovate. Universities want to innovate. Governments want to innovate. Why? Because if you are not profitably creating new ways to solve problems, someone else is, another company, another country…. and the ownership of the knowledge […]
In the next month in Sydney there will be a lot of attention on connectivity. First there is the XMediaLab conference and the accompanying workshops to be held at the Sydney Opera House. Then there is a much smaller event to be held at the Sydney Business School – Hyperconnected. Both of them are working […]
A study was recently completed by the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute into the smallest number of people that through exerting influence in a network, can bring about change. Apparently the number is slightly less than 10% – provided that the core base is highly committed and not prepared to change themselves. This has quite significant implications […]
So someone calls you up and says that they want to buy your company. You take a deep breath and then say, let’s talk… There are a lot of wrinkles in selling your business. The main one is that most people are so unused to the concept that they stumble at the first fence…. Imagine […]
You are an aspiring songwriter, and you get a shot at writing the theme song for a new TV series. It might be successful. It might not. You don’t know, but you do know that the guy who came up with the idea had one of the longest running series in the history of British […]
Amazing isn't it…? There are only two major recording artists that are not legally available as digital downloads – one is AC/DC and the other is The Beatles. But someone has now put together all of the Beatles songs and videos into a “YouTube” styled interface so that you can access them all in one […]
If you use Facebook you would know that there is a meme that is traveling around it to swap your photo for a photo of a “doppelganger” – someone famous that you look like. It's pretty cool. Suddenly you see pictures of movie stars next to your friend's name and you realize how much they […]
I have been amazed at the outpouring of emotion about the decision by the court last week in favour of Larrikin Music in its plagiarism suit against EMI Music. This is in relation to whether “Downunder”, the iconic Aussie song from Men At Work, infringed “Kookaburra Sits In The Old Gum Tree“, the iconic song […]