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Just because you are VC funded does not mean you have unlimited funds

I was at an event recently when I heard the following during a presentation: “we are VC funded so don’t have to worry much about hosting costs…” Having worked for about 6 startups over the last 10 years (none of them VC funded incidentally), this was probably the most arresting thing I have heard all [...]

By Andrew Grill | Posted November 16, 2011 in venture capital | Tagged bootstrap, bootstrapping, Business 2.0, controlling costs, dotcom, Fast Company and Red Herring, fundung, Gen X, gen y advice, Generation X, Generation Y, GenY, investment, startup blue sky, vc, vc funded, vc funding, venture capital, Wired | Comments (0)

Millennials were the talk of Pivot Conference in NYC. Haven’t we heard this before?

I was fortunate enough to attend the Pivot Conference in New York last week. The event was organised by Brian Solis, and had some excellent speakers. Much of the first morning was spent talking about “millennials” and how to market to them. The conference venue was the Crowne Plaza right on Times Square, and perhaps [...]

By Andrew Grill | Posted October 28, 2011 in social media | Tagged Australian Financial Review, Brian Solis, brw, Business Review Weekly, dot-com, dotcom, dotcom boom, Gen X, Gen Y, generaton X, millennial, millennials, pivot conference, telstra, telstra.com, time, Time Magazine, Times Square | Comments (0)

Flashback to the dotcom era circa 1999 – what has really changed?

I found this scan of a full page magazine still in my website image files, and thought I would publish it to show while things have changed, in some cases they have stayed the same. This was a full page house ad that appeared in the “Business Review Weekly” in Australia in 1999. [...]

By Andrew Grill | Posted May 4, 2008 in dotcom | Tagged advertising, australia, brw, dotcom, ebusiness, new economy, telstra | Comments (0)

Who will navigate today’s leaders through the e-commerce minefield?

Written by Andrew Grill, January 2001, and presented as a keynote at the Rotary Club of Sydney luncheon, 16th January 2001. In a recent survey of more than 100 Australian companies, global management consulting and executive search firm AT Kearney found that ‘e-leaders’ are proving hard to find. Further, such people were more likely to [...]

By Andrew Grill | Posted January 21, 2001 in social media | Tagged AT Kearney, B2B, B2C, business to business, business to consumer, dotcom, Dstore, e-business, e-commerce, e-leaders, ebusiness, ecommerce, eDirectors, eLeaders, gartner, new economy, Nicholas Negraponte, rotary, Rotary Club of Sydney, Sydney Rotary, telstra | Comments (0)