[SiliconBeach] Crowd Investing (1 of 3) - Snowball Effect (NZ platform)

*Background* - crowd investing (Fundable, Rock the Post, Early Shares, Seedrs, CrowdCube) has been popular in the US and Europe as alternative source of capital for early stage firms. NZ legislation enabled platforms to offer their services to bridge the gap between investors and firms as fro

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: The Dangers of not understanding your business

Geoff you right. ... I wasn't being precise in what was the discussion I wanted to spark. The question is "when should a startup attack a segment occupied by a dominant player?" I point to http://borderless.net/content/how-strategy-really-works which notes the various business strategies the

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: The Dangers of not understanding your business

This doesn't really read like a question or a discussion - perhaps this sort of stuff is better suited to a blog post rather than an email list which has thousands of members? On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 7:30 AM, drllau wrote: > Oh ... and a recent comment on google > +1

[SiliconBeach] Re: The Dangers of not understanding your business

Oh ... and a recent comment on google +1 asking whether it is a zombie (walking dead) ... see also VC slang for non-performing (ie ungrowth) portfolio companies Lawrence http://www.linkedin.com/in/drllau -- -- You received this messag

[SiliconBeach] The Dangers of not understanding your business

Peter Drucker once asked as to the difference between the job and your business. This was in context of a cleaning firm who thought their business was supplying mexican migrants as cleaners. But Drucker pointed out that whilst the job was bucket&mop, the real business was training unskilled peo