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Bringing startup expertise to the boardroom

NZ Entrepreneur

The immersive three-and-a-half-day programme is based around three key themes – board leadership, cultural intelligence and climate awareness. Each day focusses on a different facet of being a director – you, your board and practical governance. Maria King, Chairman at Starboard Maritime Intelligence.

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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

This is going to be BIG.

2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. We're entering another election year, and recent history has given us unprecedented access to information and interaction with our elected representatives. Reader beware.). Open Government.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

In in the early 90′s I was in my early 20′s and I programmed on mainframe computers using COBOL, CICS and DB2. We had email, instant messaging, group calendars, discussion boards, etc. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML.

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Keep It Under Your Hat: Valuation Caps and the $650 Million Sale of MySpace for $125 Million

Gust

Rather than reinvent the wheel, I would point readers to Martin Kleppmann’s useful blog post with graphs illustrating the effects of a valuation cap on entrepreneurs, seed investors and later-round (typically VC) investors. By the fall of 2004, the site’s explosive growth attracted the attention of many potential investors and buyers.

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Directus wants to democratize data across the enterprise

TechCrunch

Using the service’s tools, developers can easily turn any SQL database into an API to power their apps — or use the service’s no-code tools to build apps that way, too. ” And while business users can use the service, too, the core audience — even for the no-code/low-code tool, is developers.

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Volta Labs grabs $20 million to address a growing genomics bottleneck

TechCrunch

The team is in the process of creating a desktop-sized instrument that can automate the processes used to get genetic samples ready. What I noticed was that the existing technologies for moving, mixing and heating fluids were archaic,” he said. “I Those reactions are performed by liquid manipulating robots , or in some cases by hand.

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How NZ entrepreneurs can up their capital raising game

NZ Entrepreneur

So I splashed out and bought a gigantic pack of pick ‘n’ mix. Coaching can come in many forms, such as your board (and hopefully, chairperson), a mentor that has done what you want to do, or a structured, paid coaching relationship – I have utilised all three. 16 years later, seven other companies globally use that same name!