not DIISing it, but sounds like someone in paper pushing territory has a bright idea (what next corporate accelerators? Maru-D has already gone offshore) and is looking for confirming evidence. Of more professional interest is the unicorn spotting exercise https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/increasingly-crowded-unicorn-club/ with Canberra wondering why NZ Xero is on the list and not an aussie in sight (admittedly that infographic is crowded and my eyes are not young any more). Of course nobody mentioned the laws of statistics as shown by Y-combinator as you need the feeder system ...
http://www.economist.com/news/business/21677636-tech-talent-spotter-has-come-dominate-silicon-valleys-startup-scene-y-combinator-x - entry acceptance rate of 1.6% of 6700 applicants - non-progression rate (shouldn't say failure) of 50% - "generous" valuation of ~$1M ($120,000 in return for a 7% stake) Lawrence http://www.linkedin.com/in/drllau On Monday, 9 November 2015 15:13:56 UTC+8, Geoff McQueen wrote: > > !Shame the punctuation didn't get the memo > > On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 5:06 PM, Shane <shaneg...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> How on earth did you flip the text direction, without ...flipping the >> text direction... 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