My client, Innovic, is running a free event, Let’s Talk IP, event on Thursday, 12 August 2010 5:45 pm to 7:30pm in Melbourne. Register here.

Sukrit Sabhlok is looking to organise an Austro-Libertarian Reading Group in Melbourne. Most likely we will meet at the Sherlock Holmes Pub. Please contact me if you are interested or leave a comment.

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.

I’ll be celebrating Human Achievement Hour, an initiative from the Competitive Enterprise Institute:

Date: March 27, 2010
Time: 8:30pm-9:30pm local time
Location: Everywhere

Human Achievement Hour (HAH) is the annual holiday wherein people around the world celebrate the human innovations that improve the quality of our daily lives. We acknowledge the individuals responsible for the technologies, medicines, and creature comforts and the necessity of using earth’s resources and energy in order to advance human kind. During the same hour others will “celebrate” Earth Hour—the environmentalist hour of darkness in which people turn out the lights to show their disappointment in the way humanity utilizes earth’s resources and to cast their “vote” for global action against climate change. If Human Achievement Hour is at all a dig against Earth Hour, it is so only by the fact that our holiday points out the true meaning of earth hour: it isn’t pro-earth, it is anti-man and anti-progress.

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