[slideshare id=35465689&style=border:1px solid #CCC; border-width:1px 1px 0; margin-bottom:5px; max-width: 100%;&sc=no] On Thursday night I gave a presentation on ‘Naming your Startup‘, (see slides here, or above) to the Perth Founder Institute. In many ways, the name of your company can mean everything, and nothing. You could name it “Blaghhh” or “Twitter” or “Google” or “Snapchat”...Read More
It was a wintry English day in late 1988, and I took my A-Level class to the Westminster Hall in London for an Economics conference. On the bill was the the shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer (Treasurer) John Smith, but he could not make it on the day, so his very young looking 35 year old parliamentary private...Read More
As you may know dear reader, I spend bit of time among the startup tech community here in Perth, WA. Like the startups themselves, the scene is a very small part of the economy, but has potential. Small businesses are the ones that create jobs. Often it’s the larger businesses that are cutting them. 80% of jobs created...Read More
In an era of selfies, self publishing and self everything you’d bet there would be a service that rates your influence online by giving you a score out of 100. Klout’s frighteningly simple idea came to founder Joe Fernandez while he had his face wired shut (really) after an operation. While recuperating he could only communicate via Facebook...Read More
I enjoy mixing with startup people; and I’ve been catching up with quite a few recently, a meeting here, a cup of coffee there, a presentation somewhere else. So it got me to thinking about the top 10 tips I’d pass on to anyone contemplating a startup… 1. PROBLEM: Focus on the problem you are solving...Read More
I am reading ‘Startup Nation‘, which tells the story of Israel’s tech startup community – 3,500 or more companies. An incredible number considering a population of 7 million. On this measure Perth should have about 1,000 or so. Maybe it does. A report published last September put it at 200, but this might only be...Read More
Embarrassing. Frustrating. Helpless. Dear reader, these were but some of my emotions over the past 3 days as I was powerless to prevent my blog site going down (yes, the very one you are reading right now) due to the simple fact my domain name (web address) charliegunningham.com had expired. For 15 years now I’ve been berating...Read More
Being on holiday for a few weeks allows the mind to declutter, experience new things (I did my first parasail) and see things in a fresh light. And so it was I was sitting in a restaurant somewhere in Penang annoyed at the slowness of the WiFi (or in most cases unavailability of WiFi), and...Read More
this article first appeared in Business News, 12th Nov 2013. As previously reported, the tech start-up community in Perth is severely underfunded as compared to other cities around the world. By necessity, these companies are surviving on the proverbial ‘smell of an oil rag’ as founders work part time or take on consulting jobs to...Read More
Earlier this week, the talents down at Filter Squad put up their latest creation – FlipCase – on the App Store. A free app, it uses the plastic case of the new iPhone 5C to create a Connect4 game – watch the 1 minute video above to see what I mean. 350,000 Youtube video views...Read More
