This slide deck is from a 20-minute talk I gave to the Founders Institute launch this week. I told a few hard knock stories about my own start-up experiences and from other startups I advise and mentor from time to time. The main takeaways are: ideas are fine, but its’ the execution of the idea that...Read More
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3ho9B4VpS0] The other night I MC’d my first Business News event – their Rising Stars Awards. Before joining Business News, I’d attended their business breakfasts and 40under40 Awards, but never Rising Stars. It was a great night. I was gob smacked by what these private businesses had achieved. When I ran my own (small...Read More
Today, I am attending the TEDxPerth – the first TED talk of its type in Perth, a series of thought provoking talks under the banner “ideas worth spreading”. Here are my notes of Andrew Jaspan’s talk – and an innovative idea to preserve journalism. Hello, I am a recovering journalist. Journalism is dying, and we...Read More
One of my favourite examples of social media engagement is the Peter Shankman Mortons story (the Morton’s Steakhouse turned up with a free steak meal as he landed at Newark airport, after his joke tweet had requested it). The free publicity and branding this resulted in for Mortons was gold. And yet they probably did...Read More
[tweetmeme source=”ChazGunningham” only_single=false]RE BarCamp Perth 2012 was a distinct improvement on last year. Not to say the last year’s was not good, but this year (perhaps because some of us had done it before?) involved more sharing amongst attendees. And the more you gave, the more you took away. For those of you not familiar...Read More
[tweetmeme source=”ChazGunningham” only_single=false]Last year I attended Perth’s first ever ‘RE BarCamp‘, which is a novel way for real estate people to learn more about their craft from from others working in their industry. It is novel in many ways: – it works best if attendees actively share their experiences and are willing to (potentially) give...Read More
[tweetmeme source=”ChazGunningham” only_single=false]Is Perth a good place for startups? The jury’s out on this one, with some folks at the recent StartUp Weekend launch saying “absolutely” and yet others decrying Perth’s lack of funding and big win examples. It’s certainly true that there are some cool start ups here in WA, with Discovr being a very...Read More
A year ago I bought myself a nice new 4 cylinder petrol car with all the mod cons. I’ve driven 8,000 kms, which divided by the number of work days (it really only takes me to work and back, plus the odd meeting) is 32 kms a day. The average car commutes 55 kms a...Read More
A good day today. I had some meetings out of the office with some inspiring people, and also some great meetings at work, where we discussed new projects and some innovative new ideas we are developing. That’s the fun bit for me. Coming up with new ideas, fashioning them, bouncing them off others, shaping them further...Read More
