Jeff Immelt

Food for thought

Xenophobic Australia ........

Next time you hear someone in Australia acting a little xenophobic..... feel free to show them this chart

http://media.ibisworld.com.au/2016/01/12/outlook-2016/

My takeaway from this chart is that Australian exports to foreigners is equal to 1/3rd of all household spending in Australia each year (or about $32B).

So unless they have  33% more to spend they should STFU.


Cheers,
Dean

Hacking TV

Lots of interesting comments on CrunchyRoll (/sliver tv concept) in this episode of HackingTV
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-rosenbaum/hacking-tv-episode-017_b_8574808.html

 

Sadly for me what they are explaining is exactly what Akimbo TV was proposing to deliver which is why I was so enthusiastic about being involved……lol now ancient history never to be seen again.

Post production product placement

Thought some of you would like this J

- http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-34727307

 

Product placement generating more profitability from the "reuse of content opportunities". Any additional dollar makes a difference, great to see studios jumping on this opportunity.

I'd like to talk to anyone offering these kinds of services.

ATP in Redfern is closing.... :(

The Commonwealth Bank is closing three Sydney sites and moving 10,000 staff to Redfern
- http://www.businessinsider.com.au/the-commonwealth-bank-is-closing-three-sydney-sites-and-moving-10000-staff-to-redfern-2015-11




Between the closure of the ATP and the ballsup with the NBN implementation......there is almost no reason for startups to stay in Sydney anymore.

Anyone looking to relocate themselves to NY feel free to get in contact at www.Cognation.net/Profile  so you can hit the ground running.

Lets face it unless you are going to live in Nowra/Orange or Newcastle the costs of living here arent all that much more compared to Sydney (albeit smaller spaces) and you have the advantages of venture capitalists who havent forgotton that the V in VC stands for Venture and not "investment banking" after you've already proven your model.

EU US data issues

Cant USA based companies just keep their servers here in the USA and then there isn't n issue....eg a USA server is the nexus for the data that is interacted with users in Europe....?

- http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-06/european-unions-top-court-strikes-down-us-eu-data-transfer/6832206

BI comparison

How Business Insider’s Sale Price Stacks Up
http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2015/09/29/how-business-insiders-sale-price-stacks-up/

 

 

I'm not sure I'd put BI in the same league as NYT and Boston Globe etc but congrats to the founders.

 

Shows that with time and hard work that Venture Capital (notice the capital V for 'venture' eg has risk and not ‘safe as banks investment capital’) can make good returns for both founders and investors.

Cheers,
Dean