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Mises Seminar in Sydney, 26 November 2011

Posted on August 2, 2011 by Graeme Klass

(via Mises.org.au)

The Mises Seminar will bring together Australians interested in libertarianism and the Austrian school of economics. The event comprises a dinner on Friday, November 25, and an all day seminar on Saturday, November 26. The events can be purchased separately, or together as a package deal at a discount.

The seminar will field a line-up of prominent anti-state, anti-war and pro-market thinkers from around Australia, with special guest Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe. Our speakers understand that free-markets generate prosperity, and that government intervention is both economically and socially destructive.

The Mises Seminar venue is the Union, Universities and Schools Club (UUSC), located at 25 Bent Street Sydney. This is Sydney’s most prestigious and exclusive venue, and the compulsory dress code reflects that. Ties and blazers for men, and the equivalent for women.

The organising committee for the seminar consists of Samuel Marks (Macquarie University Libertarian League), Sukrit Sabhlok (Liberty Australia), Michael Conaghan (Liberty Australia), Dr Bulukani Mlalazi, Dr Washington Sanchez (Aussienomics), and Benjamin Marks (Economics.org.au).
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[EVENT] Let’s Talk IP

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Graeme Klass

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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Melbourne Austro-Libertarian Reading Group

Posted on June 16, 2010 by Graeme Klass

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. Continue reading →

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Event: ANZA Technology Network’s “Expanding into the US” Webinars

Posted on June 9, 2010 by Graeme Klass

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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Human Achievement Hour

Posted on March 22, 2010 by Graeme Klass

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

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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