Great article. +1 I wholeheartedly agree with building confidence in the Startup Sector to attract more investments.
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 8:19 AM, Paul Wallbank <paulwallb...@gmail.com>wrote: > When I was working on the Digital Economy programs for the NSW Government > one of the questions that kept coming up "why won't super funds funds > invest in startups?' > > Now I'm doing a bit of freelance writing I thought I'd explore this a bit > further, and one of the results is this article in Technology Spectator. > > > http://www-1.eurekareport.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Superannuation-start-ups-innovation-investment-pd20121010-YWVQN?OpenDocument > > It's a fairly complicated topic which I couldn't do justice to in 700 > words but the article's a reasonable summary of the issues. > > Particularly interesting is how some in the funds management community are > looking how to adapt the JORC rules which tamed the notoriously shady > mineral exploration industry in the 1980s to the start up sector. This > assumes the start up community has the same kind of rogues that infest the > mining sector and that investors needed to be protected from the resulting > scams. > > What are your views on this? Should startups look for funding from > superannuation funds or is it too hard when other funding channels exist? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach > Australia mailing list. Vist http://siliconbeachaustralia.org for more > > Forum rules > 1) No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. > 2) No jobs postings. You can use http://siliconbeachaustralia.org/jobs > > > To post to this group, send email to > silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en > -- Best regards, Alwin Chin 0414 633 562 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Vist http://siliconbeachaustralia.org for more Forum rules 1) No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. 2) No jobs postings. You can use http://siliconbeachaustralia.org/jobs To post to this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en
