Comments for Kate Kendall

Comment on Attention Australian startup founders by Bryan Vadas

Bryan Vadas — Fri, 18 May 2012 10:25:45 +0000

Agreed with all your points. We hope to facilitate Australian Startups with the funding they require to get their ideas into action and onto the world stage through crowd funding. We invite Aus start ups to list their projects and their funding requirements with us at http://ipledg.com/ and let’s see if we can help them get the funding they need quickly and easliy.

Comment on Which mindset are you? by Michael Conn

Michael Conn — Sun, 06 May 2012 23:22:19 +0000

Motivation is always a fascinating thing. Whilst most of us always strives to achieve, I also find it amazing to think about how each person’s approach changes depending on their personaility type. One of my favourite concepts to review is ‘Herrmann’s whole brain model’ an interesting idea on how to measure and describe our thinking preferences.

Comment on Which mindset are you? by Rethink Perfect - Desmond Sherlock

Rethink Perfect - Desmond Sherlock — Sun, 06 May 2012 22:48:33 +0000

Good one Kate, I use my diagram below to try explain this difference in how one can perceive change (growth mindset) verses commitment (fixed mindset)
http://rethinkperfect.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/nutvratchet.gif?w=640&h=413
Basically I think it is how the words we use can form this type of polar thinking as mentioned in the article.
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Are you an “agreement” type person that lives by hope or a “promise” type person that needs commitment? Anyone that uses the word commitment beware.

Comment on Uncovering the Berlin web community by Hello Lisa – our Berlin fetcher | theFetch blog

Hello Lisa – our Berlin fetcher | theFetch blog — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 01:10:56 +0000

[...] Yep, we’re heading there. It took me all of one week out of a month-long stay to fall in love with the place last year and I’m pleased to see we’ve now got a fetch [...]

Comment on Speaking by jodieandtom

jodieandtom — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 23:23:47 +0000

Hi Kate,
Asking a digital media guru to send me an e-mail is probably a huge faux pas. If not, I accept carrier pigeon or scroll delivered on horseback.
I understand that you are not in Melbourne much these days, but I can’t think of anyone more suitable in the networking space to ask for a bit of advice.
Jodie (my girlfriend) and I have recently completed a cross the world cycle ride for charity. We’re now looking to arrange an evening called ‘Night of Adventure’ in the Melbourne CBD – our new home. The model worked very well in London, and if you would like me to introduce you to a few people there, I’d be very happy to do so. We’ve lived and worked there for 30 years so have a few contacts…
Could you put me in touch with someone on the ground here in Melbourne covering you in your absense. I’m particularly interested in reaching out to people that have set themselves a challenge, physical, mental or emotional and can speak about this for ten minutes with the aid of computer presentation.
So far I have reached out to Brigitte Muir – the first Australian lady to climb Everest and the founders of Dodgeball – Melbourne.
Hope life is treating you well and we might hear from you in due course.
Tom
jodieandtom@googlemail.com
http://www.JodieandTom.com

Comment on Five Australian startups to watch by jgan99

jgan99 — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:48:08 +0000

Hi Kate,

It’s really nice for you to post these startups, especially for someone like me based in Silicon Valley to find out what’s “innovative” in Australia. Here are some comments I have for these 5 startups:

(1). mmMule has a good idea trying to bridge travelers for some additional “economic” values other than getting to know each other. However, the “economic” value ought to be focused on things of much higher value so that it will make economic sense to go through the trouble of buying for someone and bringing it to that person. I had a somewhat similar idea but focused on targeted audiences to optimize the “economic value”, and the socializing is just an added benefit.

(2). Discover App – Isn’t Search in app stores supposed to do that?

(3). MeeMeep – the monetary value may be too small to be worthwhile.

(4). PointPal – This is clearly a useful service but it’s a lot of work to find all the top merchants to participate.

(5). We TeachMe – Isn’t this a bit too broad? There are too many subjects and knowledge in the world. Google Search provides many useful learning tools already. A small startup should probably focus on certain subjects rather than all the knowledge of the world !

James Gan
Silicon Valley

Comment on User experience simplified by User Experience

User Experience — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 10:05:12 +0000

Thanks Kate – Some nice tips that can be implemented easily!

Comment on Aussie Startups relaunches by Craig Deveson

Craig Deveson — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 02:00:10 +0000

Great initiative well done Kate !

Comment on User experience simplified by AJ

AJ — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 01:21:36 +0000

Great post! you simply discuss the importance of it. Thanks!

Comment on Five more Australian startups to watch by Tram Tran

Tram Tran — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 08:33:24 +0000

I love the top list. It’s great to see Aussies start-up being so inspirational. Love your blog, will be back for more.
P.s come say hi on mine sometimes;)!