Meeting with Sidney Maestre, Xero Developer Relationship Manager in upper San Francisco. Xero is a new cloud based payroll system for small to medium business. Our staff management startup, Tanda is an add on solution for Xero Australia and it was great to catch up with Sid to talk about the US developer roadmap and […]

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This afternoon I was lucky enough to have a conversation with Tanya Wilkins who is the investment director for the Australian Trade Commission in San Francisco. Tanya has a particular focus on the technology sector and talked in detail about the Bay Area ecosystem. She was interested about our startup, Tanda and give insightful advice […]

Today I talked with Viki Forrest, CEO of Anza technology Network. Viki has spent the past decade working with hundreds of companies exploring business opportunities in the US market. There are more than 6,000 industry professionals who make up the ANZA Technology Network that work with Viki to make valuable connections. ANZA clients ad partners […]

“Well Being and Productivity in a Globally Interconnected World” Talks by academics and industry professionals covered how we’re coming closer to the vision of the personal infosphere. Research themes addressed how these new capabilities contribute to well-being and productivity. There was a particular emphasis on sensors, security and self-tracking initiatives.

Faculty and alumni of Stanford have founded companies including Google, Hewlett-Packard, Nike, Sun Microsystems, and Yahoo! $2.7 trillion in annual revenue is generated from former Standord staff and Alumni. This is equivalent to the 10th largest economy in the world. Stanford is also one of the highest producers of members of the United States Congress.

Meeting with Jilka Pollack, Director of Membership & Communications at the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce.

ScriptRock is cloud-based configuration management helping enterprise users track and control system configurations to guarantee reliability and security. Originally based in Sydney, ScriptRock landed $1.2 million in a seed funding round led by Facebook board member, PayPal co-founder and technology startup investor Peter Thiel. It was the first time he had backed an Australian company. […]

Over the weekend I went to the Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs pitch and demo day where new businesses averaging $50k to $250k annual revenue are looking for venture capital between $1-3 Million. The six businesses who pitched were: 1. SportsLab: A system incorporating wearable tech to measure university athlete metrics. There was actually a quarterback in […]

I’ve been lucky enough to board with Mark Howard and his wife in the heart of Palo Alto, Silicon Valley. Mark is the Senior IT Project Manager for California’s third largest non-profit health care provider. Mark has over 10 years experience in financial services in UK & Australia. In Sydney, Mark worked for the Commonwealth […]