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Punakaiki Fund Launches – Early Stage High Growth Opportunities for Mum and Dad Investors

August 22, 2013

Business

Business, New Zealand, New Zealand Exchange, Punakaiki, TechStars, trademe, Venture capital, Wiggs

Disclosure – Lance Wiggs, the main person behind both Lance Wiggs Capital Management and the Punakaiki Fund, is a personal friend. He’s cast his eye over some investment opportunities I’ve taken to him, and I’ve considered investing in some…

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On Cloud Brokers and Whether they have a Future (Pun Intended)

July 3, 2013

Business

cloud computing, Cloudscaling, Futures exchange, James Urquhart, Jonathan Murray, Krishnan Subramanian, San Francisco, TechStars

While in San Francisco recently I chaired a debate to look at whether there is in fact a future in cloud futures. The debate was an event from the Cloud Market Forum, an initiative that I’m on the steering…

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R&D With MapMyFitness – Bring on the Quantified Self!

June 18, 2013

Business

Fitness, iphone, MapMyFitness, MapMyRun, nike, South by Southwest, TechStars, Texas

While attending South By Southwest in Texas recently, I took the opportunity to spend some time at MapMyFitness. MapMyFitness runs a number of different services which are all focused on allowing athletes and recreational fitness buffs to track the…

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On Angel Investing–and Karma

December 4, 2012

Business

Andy Rachleff, angel investor, Cloud Foundry, Investment, New Zealand, Steve Orenstein, TechStars, Venture capital

This technology lark has been pretty good to me – in the past handful of years since deciding on this path I’ve met some incredible people, journeyed far and wide and enjoyed the financial rewards that are particular to…

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Cloudability Scores Huge Series A

July 12, 2012

Business

cloud computing, cloudability, foundry group, jason mendelson, Platform as a service, Software as a Service, TechStars, Trinity Ventures

Note – As detailed below, I’m an investor and adviser to Cloudability – disclosure is important so feel free to peruse my disclousre page. It’s exciting times at Cloudability HQ as the team announces an awesome $8.7M Series A…

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Focus, Focus, Focus

August 26, 2011

Business

Adam Smith, Brad Feld, Business, cloudcomputing, CloudU, Foundry, TechStars

First published on the Rackspace blog. I’ve been reading a copy of Do More Faster recently. Do More Faster is a kind of an entrepreneurs guide book written by two well known authors; Brad Feld, founder and investor of the Foundry and…

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Punakaiki Fund Launches – Early Stage High Growth Opportunities for Mum and Dad Investors

On Cloud Brokers and Whether they have a Future (Pun Intended)

R&D With MapMyFitness – Bring on the Quantified Self!

On Angel Investing–and Karma

Cloudability Scores Huge Series A

Focus, Focus, Focus