Yearly Archives: 2010

A recent episode of the NBC sitcom ‘The Office’ featured the perils of investing in an internet start-up. Especially when the offer of a lucrative ‘buy-out’ is put to the reluctant investors. Tweet...

Some of the stories covered in the latest issue of DatelineUSA is out now. You can receive it by email, or check the online archive. Tweet...

An encounter with a deer in Wyoming gave Peter Beattie time to think about how Australia could develop new tourism opportunities in the US by going after the growing baby boomer market My wife, Heather, and I recently drove across the US from west to east, but the real action...

“Environmentalists get in the way…and do more damage than they know,” said Vinod Khosla, one of the world’s leading clean tech investors, today at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco. Why? Self-described environmentalists demand or adopt technology that sounds promising without a sense of its true cost or impact...

Forget what you have been told about VC and angel funding. TechCrunch shows you how it is really done. Tweet...

Thanks to ‘The Explainer’ at Slate, the history of the Labor Day holiday in the US. It’s more than just the end of summer and the start of the football season. Tweet...

Newsweek has ranked the ‘world’s best countries’, and Australia comes in at fourth, after Finland, Switzerland and Sweden. The survey is based on five key  measures. Australia scored highest for health, followed by quality of life, economic dynamism, political environment and education (for which we ranked 13th in the world)....

We previously listed official Australian representation in the US. Now, Australian business, professional and social organisations active in the US. (Please offer additions and amendments, including places where Australians might gather for business or social networking.) Advance chapters in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Washington, DC) American Australian...

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Australia’s ‘boofhead’ tourism marketing campaigns are hurting our reputation as an exporter of technology and innovation according to a new study. RMIT Adjunct Professor  and B2B marketing communications consultant, Kimon Lycos, interviewed 50 CEOs of Australian SMEs  and found that ‘being positioned internationally as a nation of boofheads, serial BBQ’ers...