Blog Entries for roger

Don’t be Humble, Strive to be Awesome!

roger@alimua.com.au — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 14:00:00 +0100

I recently responded to a thread on the SiliconBeach email list that was looking at the issue of Australians underselling themselves and how this adversely affects their ability to get traction I the US. The post below is a slightly edited and cleaned up version.

In principle I agree with the sentiment that self-marketing is detracting from the SiliconBeach list, I reckon most people have met someone at some point and had this reaction.

With apologies to Pete Davison who lov [...]

Australia is fast becoming a hot place to do startups

roger@alimua.com.au — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 14:00:00 +0100

Australia’s entrepreneurs have long lamented that if you really want to create a successful global technology startup that you have to leave Australia and go to Silicon Valley. It’s just too hard to do startups in Australia, they say. The market is too small, there’s no big tech companies doing real product development here (it’s just Sales and Marketing), the government doesn’t support tech startups well enough, there’s not enough venture capital, the tax structures are wrong, em [...]

MIT Media Lab 25th Anniversary Reflections

roger@alimua.com.au — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:00:00 +0100

On October 15th, 2010 I made the pilgrimage back to the MIT Media Lab for its 25th Anniversary celebrations. Some 18 years after first arriving at the lab as raw Master's student and 12 years after leaving as a newly minted Ph.D. this proved to be perhaps the best return visit I've had to date. It really helped me crystalise my own understanding of how special the Media Lab is and why I've made certain key career decisions since graduating. The event was one of the best I've been to at the la [...]

Why Australia’s Next generation Broadband Network (NBN) will create innovation opportunities

roger@alimua.com.au — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:00:00 +0100

Australia's NBN is in the process of being rolled out, and I was recently asked to comment on whether or not Australia had missed a golden opportunity by Phil Morle at Pollenizer. The post below is a slightly edited and expanded version of my response.

First, I think it's worth looking at what this means, not just for Australia's technoratti, but for the wider population and what it could do for Australia's economy. Much ink and many photons have been spilled discussing whether or not th [...]

October Update

roger@alimua.com.au — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:00:00 +0100

OK so I know it's been a while.... things have been really busy. I've been flat out at iPrime working on the new platform for the hyperlocal sites. We've managed to launch 12 with the old platform and will shortly launch another 17 or so. Check out http://www.iprime.com.au to see the results. The real fun will happen when we light up the sites using the new platform shortly thereafter.

In addition to iPrime I'm about to divesify my interests and will shortly become involved in several o [...]

Opening Entry

roger@alimua.com.au — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:00:00 +0100

Ok so I've finally launched the site. Thanks to all those who helped me and gave feedback. You will note that some sections have reasonable amount of content while others are still rather sparse. This will change over time.

I hope you all enjoy the content here and find it useful.