A friend (OK OK a facebook contact) sent me this link. Without being all right wing and going on and on about how ACT was sent here to save our souls (god forbid!) it does have to be said…
An excellent post here by Will Schroeter who questions the view that it’s always better to own a small piece of a big business than a big piece of a small business. Will concludes that often it’s better to…
British Telecom’s recently announced first quarter performance: Revenue £5 billion Increase of 3% Growth from BT Global Services was key contributor BT is pushing itself as a service-centric organisation bundling service products and systems to deliver WHAT THEIR CUSTOMERS…
I’m really going to have to find something new to blog about. Here I was thinking that SaaS was sufficiently esoteric and “backroom” to keep me a little aloof and what happens?, NZTE does a SaaS expose in its…
Only $5.25mill of the $15mill on offer were subscribed for the Burger Fuel IPO. The founders have split the difference to make it to the $8mill minimum listing requirement. Compare for a minute the Burger Fuel and Xero IPO’s.…
Springboard research have compiled this report into the projected growth for SaaS in the Asia Pacific region. The report, not unexpectedly, determines that SOA growth will be significant and enumerates some reasons for that growth; Reduced time and cost…
I’ve always been a little sceptical about carbon trading. I see it as an artificial solution to a problem that really needs major societal change to solve. At best it’s greenwash and at worst a way for consumers to…
One of my regularly watched blogs had this post yesterday, looking at the location of the major profit pools for SaaS businesses. The gist of the post was that entrepreneurs and investors should aim to identify the high profit…
The NZ dollar has punched through the psychological USD0.80 barrier. While the change itself is small – I’d bet that there are a number of Kiwi businesses who told themselves that 80 cents was the barrier beyond which they…
The Press here in Christchurch this morning had this piece on CRM systems for SME’s. The biggest surprise was that a traditional newspaper was mentioning something as esoteric as CRM but once I got over that I was pleasantly…