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Rod on shareholding allocations…..

January 7, 2008

Business, Efficiency, Governance, New business, Strategy

In the second installment of his six part series for start-ups, Rod discusses the vexed issue of shareholding allocations. He raises some excellent points and ones which with our Kiwi “she’ll be right” mentality, new start-ups are likely to…

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Partnerships 101 bought to you by Intel…

January 6, 2008

Business, IT, Strategy

So the Intel/OLPC partnership is over. Intel partnered with One Laptop Per Child to co create an Intel chipped XO. Unfortunately at the same time Intel was pushing the classmate laptop, even to the point of running the XO…

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On Facebook, and privacy, and scraping….

January 6, 2008

Business, Design, IT, Society, Strategy, Web x.0

It’s been talked about elsewhere but for those who haven’t heard, Robert Scoble decided to run a script on his 5000 facebook friends in order to copy his FB social graph to Plaxo. Facebook promptly disabled his account stating…

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A marketing coup for Xero in the making???

January 5, 2008

Business, New business, New Zealand, SaaS

With a hat tip to Dan I couldn’t resist but comment on this one. It’s almost too good to be true but I’ll take his word for it. Seems that the number by New Zealand band Elemeno P’ called …

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Some advice from Rod…

January 5, 2008

Business, New business, New Zealand, Strategy

This morning Rod’s advice to prospective start-up technology companies was published on the Herald site. It’s a great read for anyone contemplating the move, it appears this was the first in a series of articles – my only request…

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NZ IT company sells to Israelis…

January 5, 2008

Business, IT, New Zealand, Strategy

Just back from a few days R&R and I read that NZ network protection provider Esphion has been purchased by an Israeli company, Allot, which paid US$5.5 million. Esphion has been in operation for 7 years or so with…

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Tying the loose ends together…

December 31, 2007

Business, Strategy, Web x.0

I’ve posted extensively at my displeasure at how backwards banking systems invariably seem to be, I’ve also commented at length about my belief that 2008 will be the year that we see social networking sites becoming truly value adding.…

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Self actualization in a web context…

December 28, 2007

Business, Design, IT, Society, Web x.0

Over on the VortexDNA blog, Kaila came up with her take on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Kaila is a smart lady who has a large reading list (both printed and bit-based) so when she speaks (or writes), one tends…

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Marketing SaaS as STRC

December 27, 2007

Business, Design, IT, SaaS, Strategy

An interesting editorial on the IT business edge site discusses the recent Netsuite IPO. Of course there is the expected discussion on whether or not SaaS has come of age, and the arguments for or against Netsuite being a…

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Not another bubble bursting…

December 25, 2007

Business, New Zealand, Strategy

Lance posted about this NY Time article describing the chaos post property bubble burst in Florida. I’ve always been a little sceptical about th apartment developments sprouting up in Auckland and Wellington – the minimal returns (generally well below…

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