Publishing

They’d rather sell it to Google than list on an exchange

Good article in StartUpSmart  … ASX won’t be launching a start-up platform, but do start-ups care? For early stage investment and growing startups the gap from their first raises to a listing is a long journey and there will probably be Angel and VC rounds before then. For companies starting their raises on ASSOB the next …

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Forget the London Olympics: This is the Social Olympics

Alistair Niederer writes about the first truly social olympics. Last week marked the milestone that it is now 100 days to the Olympic games in London. These milestones are a little artificial as the 100-days-to-go mark really means nothing other than it’s getting close now, but as the people of London have been waiting for seven …

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Spoke at the ASSOB Melbourne Capital Raising Breakfast

Friday morning there were around 100 investors that fronted up for the ASSOB Breakfast Pitch Event in Melbourne to listen to nine  companies that were raising capital. There are still two events left in the series. One in Brisbane. One in Sydney. There is a good article about the event in the Business Spectator. Thanks to Bob Gottliebsen. The main message was that …

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Green Passion and Ethical Investing.

This week I shared the stage with the Green Leader Bob Brown at the 10th Australian Sustainability Awards. Ethical Investment was why everyone was there apart from the excellent menu which featured organically grown fare. Paddy Manning a journalist with the Sydney Morning Herald reported well on it, picking up on my phrase “It takes passion …

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New name for DVD Parrot

After several years DVD Parrot has changed it’s name to Gold Coast Disc Copy. This name matches well with the thousands of DVD’s and CD’s that are produced each week from our Gold Coast based production facility. DVDParrot