Comments on: BarCampSydney2

By: Jodie Miners

Jodie Miners — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:36:50 +0000

Thanks for the excellent talk on intrapreneurship. I’ve even used one of the things you said whilst talking to a colleague the other day. Of course it was point 1 – forgiveness is easier than permission, and of course I was trying to use that as an excuse to get my own way… but why not at least try!
Thanks for the great talk, see you in March 08.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 06:42:05 +0000

I worked on a job with an American about a year ago and I asked him why there were so few American’s working in Australia. He kindly informed my that Australia is the ‘last respectable capital market in the world’.

That phrase has always stuck in my mind: the last respectable capital market in the world’!

By: Elias

Elias — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 05:21:32 +0000

Well culture is a by-product of an environment – the market is just so much smaller here in Oz – which would force the Aussie VC’s to be a bit more careful with the money.

I can’t compare US to Australian VC’s, but I have family in banking and hearing about the deals they do in New York and London, compared to their Sydney days, is clear to me that Australia is just the backwater of the capital markets in the world. Having said that though, I am surprised given our large super fund industry, there isn’t more investment – maybe the money goes overseas.

Smaller market, smaller industry, less opportunity for risk taking.

By: Denise

Denise — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 04:59:43 +0000

The whole Australian VC ‘not burning bridges’ point – do you think that’s because the Australian industry is so much smaller than in the states? Or is it more to do with Australian culture?

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Mon, 27 Aug 2007 08:01:15 +0000

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By: Martin Wells

Martin Wells — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 02:34:24 +0000

Yeah, was another fun day. Even if the crowd was different.

Wish I’d been able to stay at the pub longer; that was getting fun.

And my comment about the ad market and mortgages, was to illustrate how seemingly unrelated things can impact your business. Understanding the major sources of ad revenue upstream is a part of understanding where you sit in the overall business model for your startup – especially one in the advertising revenue line.

In this case about 10% of online ad revenue is coming out of sub-prime mortgages, so it’s an easy direct correlation to understanding it’s impact on online ad revenue in our industry.

By: Rai

Rai — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 13:52:31 +0000

Yesh, no pets for me thanks!

It was great catching up with you again. Had been a while hadn’t it? You’re good fun Elias

Too bad I missed your talk. I’d love to hear the extension on those points, especially no 4.

And hey, if you and Richard wanna start a discussion, I have only have one word – Tangler! hehehe