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Leslie Barry

Leslie Barry

Startup Financing introduction slides for a Product Management course at General Assembly in Melbourne, Australia

I spent a fun hour with the smart people attending the Product Management course at General Assembly in Melbourne, Australia on 30 Sept 2014. The topic was an introduction to Startup Financing options for startups. We discussed a high level view of the players in the startup ecosystem, some lessons

Melbourne Startup Companies Pitching for Interns

This Summer’s Tin Alley Beta program is kicking off soon. Tin Alley Beta was started last year by Miguel Wood focusing on University of Melbourne students in 2013 and has expanded to Monash University, Swinburne University of Technology and The University of Tasmania for 2014. As thePremier tech startup

New to startups? Start here

Stanford has kicked off a course “Everything we know about how to start a startup, for free, from some of the world experts.” with the who’s who of startup land. Sign up and follow this course online for free. If you only do one thing this year related to

Thoughts on our startup, GetViable, being acquired by Bigcolors

Wow! 18 August was an Awesome day. We announced that the startup Dougal Edwards and I built over the last few years was acquired by Bigcolors, a Hong Kong based crowdfunding / investment company. And we got crunched on TechCrunch ;-) I’m pleased with the result for a few reasons:

Thingiverse + Odesk + 3D Printer = Idea to working product in 5 days.

Idea to working product in 5 days. Thingiverse + Odesk + 3D Printer I’ve been trying to get my devices and charging and cables sorted out for ages. Thanks to Thingiverse, Odesk and a 3D printer at work, it’s done! I have an Apple Macbook Pro Retina 15 inch, Macbook

Clockwatcher or Glasshole? Is a Pebble watch less socially acceptable than Google Glass

As a wearables fan (see “Fitbit is the same as a gym membership”) I recently bought and tried the Pebble. The problem I wanted to solve was mainly “which notifications do I respond to without taking the phone out of my pocket and interrupting conversations.” #FWP, I know. Seems like

Tipping Point for ‘developing’ countries? Mary Meeker’s 2014 Internet Trends

This is always a must-read report as it’s been quite accurate over the years. Key takeaways for me: 1. Facebook OWNS photo sharing. See slide 62 to understand why they bought WhatsApp. Instagram + Facebook + WhatsApp = dominance. 2. Screen minutes, slide 96, show the massive adoption of tech in developing

Crossing the Bitcoin chasm

On 2 February (8 weeks ago) I wrote “Ditching BHP + RIO shares for Bitcoin” thanks to an introduction by Mark Andreessons post. IMAGE: Slideshare : Geoffrey Moore, Crossing the Chasm — What’s New, What’s Not I’m late to the game, but I thought I’d share what I’ve

Pitch Your Idea

Introduction This information was provided with permission, over lunch in Palo Alto, by Guy Kawasaki to help you better pitch your idea. NOTE: Make sure you have worked through the previous steps before you dive into this… it will make the process that much easier. These steps and PowerPoint outline

Whats your big idea?

In a nutshell Find an opportunity with a BIG enough market that you can reach today. A market with customers who NEED your product & that you can/want to build a business around. * What is the BIG problem? * What is the BIG Solution? * Who is the Customer? The Problem