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  Pitch your idea

  Okay I've got one - a virtual car dealer for private car sellers. So the company takes care of everything a car yard does - like organising financing, transfer payments and fees - effectively an online car yard. The only reason people buy from a car yard is for the financing and assurance things are legit as well as it being easy - imagine if a third party could could do this.

  Posted 27 Aug 07

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  If you are an Entrepreneur, how did YOU become one?

  Family & friends expect me to always be on a new project, and I've been publicly recognised by some big honchos at work as an entrepreneur so I suppose I qualify, although little in the web start-up world (yet).

  At 15, I started a school newspaper with 1000 copies a pop and that I ran for three years because I liked writing and thought it would be fun. I organised three school formals - including the year 10 semi-formal which wasn't allowed before but got away with it because I developed a  positive rapport with the headmaster due to the paper. At uni six months in, I decided the mainstream media was crap and decided to start my own newspaper - which lead to me running a journalists society w/200 people that produced all sorts of things (print turned out to be expensive - which led me to digital media...hence my interest in the net now). and now, at my firm, about five months in, I thought it was stupid we didn't have a wiki and six months later, and to cut a long story short, has me spearheading a cultural change programme that's shaking the place up apparently.

  I should also add I HATE being told what to do; am restless; and ideas come to me very easily and maybe a little too frequently (especially during exam time, like now...).
   

  Posted 27 Aug 07

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  Start-ups in Australia

  I've been thinking lately how traditional media and telco companies are killing themslves tpo reinvent their business models, like their overseas counterparts. But unlike overseas, they are no acquiring local start-ups that provide a cheap form of innovation. So I've decided to start profiling some start-ups, so I can better understand the local industry

  Start adding! 

  Posted 22 May 07

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  Let's get going

  Richard - definately. You don't need to make money to be considered an entrepreneur. We shouldn't define success as returns on your capital outlay purey of $ - for example, an entrepreneur ('intrapreneur') in an organisation doesn't get monetary returns, but benefits from exposure, networking, experience, whatever. similar to social entrepneurilism - the return shouldn't be measured by money 

  Posted 22 Apr 07

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  Networking

  I was part of a focus session on "networking" at my firm (big four accounting - networking is the core fo our business) and an interesting theme which I completely agree with came up.

  when they ask what stops us from networking, was that on the one hand there is no time, but that's not the issue - it's also the "quality". Networking is about keeping "warm" that relationship you created. In retrospect, that's why I love facebook - I can keep in touch and keep the relationship "warm" with a quick message here and there, but at the same time it doesn't take too much effort

  Networking is not just about meeting; it just as important about maintaining. 

  Posted 22 Apr 07

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  Domain brokers

  no - but I've seen godaddy.com advertise it as a service

  Posted 12 Mar 07

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  The Entrepreneurs Job

  I would add believing in what you do. You might not focus on this, but the role of any leader - especially in a start-up with a small group of employees - relies heavily on the inspiration you provide for others. Your passion for what you do is what keeps you going and what keeps others going when they sense it. Never forget the power of generating positive emotions in other people - or rather, inspiration. Not everyone can convince 300 Spartans to do the imposible

  Posted 27 Feb 07