Right from the start I’ve pitched for investment, and pitched well. I started Posse in 2009 as a part-time side project; since then I’ve raised over $3 million from investors and $1.4 million in government grants. I’ve never had a…
I started Posse a few years ago as a part-time offshoot of my band management company ‘Scorpio’. It’s only one and a half years since I raised my first round of capital, and I still make mistakes. But I learn,…
In 2000 I moved to Sydney, and became a band manager eager to discover the next big thing, have fun and make some money along the way. I started by scouting around the industry, networked and sussed out how it all…
I came back from my January holiday excited by the prospect of 2012. It was my first real holiday for … I don’t know how long, and revived me. I was convinced this was the year our business would take…
When I decided to start a tech company, I attended as many conferences as I could to hear as many people as possible, in the hope they’d teach me how to create the next Internet wonder. At most of these…
“We now know 10,000 things that won’t work, so we’re that much closer to finding what will.” - Thomas Edison, on developing the light bulb. By now, you know that your idea will solve a real problem and…
Formulas for a successful startup Someday I’m sure a really smart person (probably an engineer) will come up with a sure-fire winning formula for how to build a successful business. Then they’ll call it an ‘algorithm’ to baffle business people…
I woke up at 5am this morning in a cold sweat, after a nightmare so bizarre I had to write it down. I pulled out my iPhone and described it in an email to myself. Here’s what I wrote: ‘Boyfriend…
