Ignite Melbourne #ignitemel (April 16th, 2010 - 510 views)

Ignite is a worldwide geek event. Ignite presenters share their personal and professional passions, using 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds for a total of just five minutes. Mark Mansour, Ned Dwyer and John Barton ran an awesome Ignite event in Melbourne recently, and the videos are all online now for everyone to see. Take a look at [...]

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Pick your own editorial team (July 7th, 2009 - 2,303 views)

The chatter about how the newspaper industry is dying is massing, again, but recently I have been thinking about how my use of Twitter has been replacing their key value-generator. Years ago you read newspapers not just for national news but local news, global news, sport, weather, marriages, births, deaths, real estate, cars, jobs, travel, [...]

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The power of the prototype (June 12th, 2009 - 1,416 views)

At any networking event there is a healthy dose of “so, what do you do?” and last night at the Churchill Club was no different. The best reply that I saw though came from Scott Kilmartin from haul. If somebody asked me what Scott does I would have said something like “he makes satchel bags and [...]

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She holds the Deck Of Secrets (April 20th, 2009 - 1,911 views)

Ned Dwyer interviewed Michelle in a newsletter for The Hive - I thought I would copy / paste it for you. Update: The latest Apple TV Commercial features the EAT.sydney app, watch it on Youtube.  Michelle Matthews (@secretshq) is the founder of Shopping Secrets and publisher of Deck of Secrets, a guide to the best bars, restaurants [...]

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Entrepreneurial Ethics: what would Alice do? (April 1st, 2009 - 1,775 views)

Ned asked me last week what I think about entrepreneurial ethics and what we can do about it as part of an article he is putting together, so I thought I would share it here since I find it a recurring question. I think ‘entrepreneurial ethics’ is focusing on the wrong element when what we [...]

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