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Tim Chang at X|Media|Lab
Tim Chang, Principal of Norwest Venture Partners in Silicon Valley, sees New Zealand as a source of unique and refreshing ideas, born out of our distance from easy capital. Being a VC from Silicon Valley, you’d expect him to advise Kiwi businesses to chase American money, but you may be surprised at his answer.
Previously in Idealog TV …
December 18, 2009: Little messages
October 31, 2009: All the right moves
October 29, 2009: And the winner is ...
October 29, 2009: Ice chieftain
October 29, 2009: Chief Warwick
October 9, 2009: The Comedic Matrix
October 8, 2009: Big TED
October 7, 2009: The Good sort
October 7, 2009: Tribe Dewar
October 5, 2009: On the flip side
October 5, 2009: The ultimate beach party
October 5, 2009: Success in failure
October 2, 2009: An apple a day did not keep the doctor away
October 2, 2009: Building new ideas
October 2, 2009: Radio Hologram
October 1, 2009: Research feeds kai moana
August 17, 2009: On a hunt to animate
August 17, 2009: Voicing your design
August 17, 2009: James ‘Benjamin Button’ Jean
August 17, 2009: Caribbean Carson
August 17, 2009: Creative regal
August 16, 2009: Not so semi
August 16, 2009: Comedic Spore
August 15, 2009: Giant Weta
August 15, 2009: Clockwork Anna
August 15, 2009: Semi-Permanent jaunt
August 13, 2009: Wired on Pop Culture
July 27, 2009: Todd's foundation
July 21, 2009: Flash hurry
July 17, 2009: Nice ice
July 14, 2009: Science gets personal
July 9, 2009: Doom defying behaviour
July 9, 2009: Incubus
June 12, 2009: Fun, useful and potentially dangerous
May 26, 2009: Tim Chang at X|Media|Lab
May 26, 2009: Vishal Gondal at X|Media|Lab
May 25, 2009: Eric Kearley at X|Media|Lab
May 23, 2009: Juliette Powell at X|Media|Lab
May 23, 2009: Megan Elliott of X|Media|Lab
May 22, 2009: Parmesh Shahani at X|Media|Lab
May 22, 2009: Susan Bonds at X|Media|Lab
May 7, 2009: Andy Blood and David Walden
May 6, 2009: Olaf Diegel
February 23, 2009: Jane McGonigal on Signtific Lab
February 20, 2009: A little too close and personal with Ze Frank
February 20, 2009: Adrian Holovaty on the mashup
February 19, 2009: Quickfire: Derek Powazek and Matt Biddulph
February 19, 2009: Questions for the speakers
February 19, 2009: From the floor at Webstock
February 18, 2009: The local tipple
October 24, 2008: Peri Drysdale
September 26, 2008: George Fistonich
September 12, 2008: Geoff Ross
August 26, 2008: David Skilling
April 10, 2008: Ray Avery
July 1, 2007: Josef Roberts
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Fantastic! Finally some vision in establishing a key infrastructure to support New Zealand's future prosperity and commercial competitiveness. Good work Rod, Sam and Steve - your country thanks you for your patriotism! … - Margaret Holmes on NZ Institute thumbs down Key's agenda:
Unfortunately it is not just red tape - it is also the laid back kiwi attitude, compounded by educators who think achieving national standards is a bad thing. - Tim Marshall on Smile, you’re in New Zealistan:
The target of higher GDP per capita is all wrong. Aiming for it encourages more production and consumption, often at the expense of quality of life. We need to construct a Genuine Progress Index (GPI) to guide policy. Fr … - Peter McL on New note:
"You got caught up in events at EMI.." and yet shes STILL with EMI - their local branch is distributing her new album. Wonder why?
I blogged some more of Hollies comments on the details behind the fallout … - Phil Wollerman on Smile, you’re in New Zealistan:
Brilliant, insightful article, VH.
This situation has principally arisen because - simplistically - the world no longer wants what we are intrinsically advantaged in supplying.
And yeah, it doesn't look like our co … - Anon on Smile, you’re in New Zealistan:
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Ben
May 26, 2009 at 4:16 pm
Great content, I agree that the issue is the Gap between getting underway and being ready for VC funding. NZ is a country rich in ideas and innovation, and we get things going because we love to "have a go, b.." nah cant say it. It's going from a few people bootstrapping to a company ready to scale that is our hardest hurdle to overcome.
When we get that peice of the puzzle working we will create and keep a much greater number of innovative companies that are doing high value industry, not farming and tourism.
A mixed day at idealog for me, lots of provocative stuff and some enjoying threads.
Cheers
Simon Young
May 27, 2009 at 5:53 pm
Thanks Ben. I think to be fair we haven't even started to see how Tourism and Farming can innovate themselves.
But you're quite right, Kiwi businesses need to learn how to be big without losing outr innovative streak.
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