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Category Archives: Entrepreneurship
[EVENT] Australian Entrepreneurs to Showcase Leading-Edge Innovations in Silicon Valley
Andrew Lacy, SVP Disney Mobile, Co-Founder Tapulous to Keynote at ANZA TechNet’s Australian Innovation Showcase, November 9
10.12.2010– San Francisco, CA – A dozen Australian entrepreneurs will showcase their leading-edge innovations at the ANZA Technology Network Gateway to the US Executive Summit Australian Innovation Showcase at Silicon Valley Bank in Santa Clara, from 6pm to 9:30pm on Tuesday, November 9.
Representative of the Australian tech scene, the Showcase provides a first-look at a broad-spectrum of smart technologies to Silicon Valley insiders who hold key connections to the US market and sales, partnering and funding opportunities.
ANZA’s 2010 Gateway to the US companies include a unique entertainment and media platform, software that interprets ‘brain signals’ to control electronic devices, enterprise solutions that turn management challenges into profits, specialist speech recognition technology, cutting-edge tools for web developers including a new database and a smart solution that trumps the universal remote market.
In addition to showcasing Australian companies new to the US market, ANZA will present two Australian-founded companies making waves in Silicon Valley; ThreatMetrix that has just closed a $12.1 million round and Whereoscope, a recent Y Combinator participant.
“Relative to its population of 21 million people, Australia consistently outperforms in innovative technologies it delivers to the global marketplace,” said Viki Forrest, CEO of ANZA Technology Network. “The Gateway to the US Australian Innovation Showcase underscores the remarkable talent that bubbles up Down Under and celebrates the success it has achieved locally in Silicon Valley.”
Andrew Lacy, Senior Vice President at Disney Mobile will deliver the evening’s keynote. Lacy, an Australian entrepreneur and co-founder of Tapulous, creator of Tap Tap Revenge, sold his company to Disney earlier this year. Nigel Warren, Consul-General & Senior Trade Commissioner at Austrade will emcee the Showcase.
More info here: http://www.pitchengine.com/pitch/94384/ Continue reading
chips@NICTA to Help Microelectronic Startups
From an old colleague, Graeme Robertson:
I just wanted to announce the establishment of the long-awaited chips@NICTA program. (formerly known as Design@NICTA)
What is chips@NICTA?
Cadence and NICTA have signed an agreement for discounted access to EDA tools for early-stage Australian semiconductor companies by aggregating demand through usage of the Cadence EDA-card rather than have companies negotiate independently with Cadence.
Current Eligibility Criteria for SMEs in Australia include:
- Less than 5 years old
- Registered Australian Company
- Turnover less than $5Million
- Must be developing IP for ownership by SME, (i.e. EDA license not used for design services.)
So, if you are an early-stage Australian semiconductor company, have a need for EDA tools and are interested in the chips@NICTA program and would like further information could you please respond to me at gprobertson@ieee.org including the likely time you need access by.
I have been out of the microelectronic design arena for a while now, but I hope it does well! Continue reading
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Tech
Tagged cadence, chip@nicta, eda, eda tools, microelectronics, nicta, startup
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[EVENT] Let’s Talk IP
My client, Innovic, is running a free event, Let’s Talk IP, event on 12 August 2010 5:45 pm to 7:30pm in Melbourne. Register here.
A free forum & networking event, presented by Davies Collison Cave, IP Australia & INNOVIC
• The role of IP Australia
• Types of IP protection
• The IP process
• Extracting maximum value from your IP budget
• Strategies for enforcing your IP rights
• The role of the patent attorney
• Case study – A view from the real world
• Tips and Traps of IP protection
• Marrying IP protection with your business plan
• Post IP – what next?
• Options & business models
• The commercialisation process
WHERE
Level 15, Davies Collison Cave, 1 Nicholson Street, Melbourne
WHEN
Thursday 12 August 2010, 5.45pm – 7.30pm (for 6.00pm)
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Event: ANZA Technology Network’s “Expanding into the US” Webinars
I just registered for the 27 JULY 2010 – 11 am (AEST) webinar on Expanding into the US: Funding Your Business: Options and Opportunities, run by the passionate and super-productive Vikki Forrest, CEO of ANZA Technology Networks. About the webinar:
When Australian companies consider the US market they automatically think venture capital – and why not? There are 1000′s of VCs in America. Yet, less than one percent of companies – Australian or otherwise – meet the mark for VC investment. For the rest, other options and opportunities need to be pursued.
This webinar will feature experts in angel investing, bootstrapping, grants and combinations of funding sources that will get you thinking “outside the VC box” and into a can-do mode for serious US market exploration.
Other webinar events from the series:
13 JULY 2010 – 11 am (AEST) – Expanding Your Business to the US: Myths and Realities. You’ve got a great innovation and know it will play well in the US market, or your success in the Australian market has reached its apex. Now what? Why not pack the suitcases and spend 6 weeks visiting the major US tech hubs? You’ve heard Americans are friendly and love a good investment opportunity. So, now that you’re here, why won’t they take your calls?
This webinar will feature an Australian entrepreneur with a patent-pending technology who will share his experiences about living and working in the US and an American “Networker-in-Chief” who will discuss the intricacies involved in networking “American-style”. Hosted by ANZA CEO Viki Forrest, who has worked with 100′s of Australian companies exploring the US market and who will share her own experiences of coming to the US with an Australian startup and how she built a formidable US network.
21 JULY 2010 – 11 am (AEST) – Sizing Up the US Market: Facts and Fears. Fact: The US market is 15 times the size of Australia’s – and growing. Fear: It’s too big of a risk trying to scale a market of this size and you could lose everything you’ve worked for. The US and Australia are two entirely different markets – not only in size, but in depth and scope. What works in Australia does not always work in the US just by ramping up the team, the technology and the dollars.
This webinar will feature a VC with keen insight into investing in Australian companies in the US market and an Australian CEO who launched a successful US-based business who will share their fact and fear lists with you. Moderated by ANZA CEO Viki Forrest who has worked with 100′s of Australian companies scaling the US market and seeking US funding.
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Tagged ANZA Technology Network, anzatech, capital raising, fund raising, us market, usa, vc, vikki forrest
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Raising Capital? Know Your Investor’s Financial Metrics
I have been assisting a company raise capital and we have been exploring Angel Investment networks. I have found that investors use the following metrics to pre-screen (from a financial perspective) your company:
Capital sought
Equity stake
Pre-Money Valuation
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Tagged angel, exit, investors, metrics, post money valuation, pre money valuation, raising capital, return on investment
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Bill Makes Raising Startup Capital Even Harder
Part of every startup’s life is raising capital. This will typically involve Angel Investors – high net worth individuals. However, Robert Litan has discovered a potential unintended consequence in Senator Dodd’s Financial Reform Bill. Continue reading
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Tagged angel investment, capital, cato, dodd, Financial Reform Bill, section 926, senator dodd, startup
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Go Global From Day One
Globalisation requires startups to be global from day one. This does not mean that you need to have sales offices, distribution networks and advertising to all corners of the earth. It means that your startup’s culture must pursue a global … Continue reading
