In this section you will find details of all articles which we have previously published.
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Tuesday 21 October 2008
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Tristen Langley, Southern Cross Venture Partners
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Tristen Langley will be presenting our next breakfast event on Thursday 6th November at 7:30am. Tristen has worked with Skype as their North American Business Development and Marketing Manager, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, www.dfj.com (one of the world’s leading technology focused venture firms) and is currently Investment Director at Southern Cross Venture Partners, www.sxvp.com.
Tristen whilst at DFJ has been proud to back over 500 companies across many sectors including such industry changing successes such as Hotmail (acquired by Microsoft), Baidu, Skype (acquired by eBay), United Online, Overture (acquired by Yahoo), Athenahealth, EnerNOC, TicketsNow (acquired by TicketMaster), Feedburner (acquired by Google), Interwoven, Four11 (acquired by Yahoo), Parametric, and Digidesign (acquired by Avid) where she initiated the firm’s investment in and led the due diligence for Skype Technologies (sold to eBay for US$2.6 billion), a peer-to-peer communications firm. She was also involved with DFJ’s portfolio companies, Xfire (sold to Viacom for $100M), Visto (wireless email), Anagran (flow routing), abazab (video telephony) and Media Lario (lithography optics). Phew - that's quite a list.
Come along and her her story and how she feels the Australian market is shaping up.
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Full event details here
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Friday 29 August 2008
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Simon Baker, Realestate.com.au
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Simon Baker, the man behind the stellar rise and rise of Realestate.com.au will be our guest speaker for a dinner on Monday 15 September 2008.
Until recently Simon was the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the REA Group.
He joined realestate.com.au Ltd in 2001 and during his 7.5 years as CEO, the business increased revenues from $4 million to over $155 million, turned around a loss of $6m to an EBITDA profit of more than $30m, grew staff from 25 to over 750, and increased its market capitalisation from $8 million to $600 million.
This is an incredible story which any entrepreneur or business leader should hear.
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Full event details here
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Monday 28 July 2008
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Mike Cannon-Brookes webcast now available
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If you missed the event with Mike Cannon-Brookes (or if you want to relive it), have a listen here.
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Wednesday 9 July 2008
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Mike Cannon-Brookes, Atlassian
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Mike Cannon-Brookes from Atlassian will be our guest speaker for a breakfast on 25 July.
Mike is co-founder and CEO of Atlassian Pty Ltd an innovative, award-winning enterprise software company. As well as being frighteningly young and good-looking, Mike has been instrumental in building Atlassian into one of Australia's brightest technology exports. Amazingly, Mike (along with his co-founder Scott Farquhar) has done this with no external funding. Come along and hear this amazing and inspirational story in the unique Innovation Bay environment.
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Full event details here
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Wednesday 18 June 2008
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Steven Marks and Rob Hazen - Guzman y Gomez
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Steven and Rob epitomise the entrepreneurial spirit. They come from diverse backgrounds in managing hedge funds and fashion retail, invested their own money into a venture that lacks an established local market and have become evangelists for a brand that is already expanding from the fast food market into manufacturing. In addition to this, they are faced with an audience that doesn’t understand Mexican cuisine and needs to be educated in the process. On persistence, passion and drive they have now established four stores, a manufacturing warehouse and are rapidly becoming the next big franchising business opportunity in Australia.
This will be another Innovation bay exclusive, as neither Steve or Rob have spoken publically about their journey to date.
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Full event details here
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The price is $150 payable on the night. If you want to come just fill in this form.
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Sunday 4 May 2008
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Jason Calacanis from Mahalo confirmed for dinner
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We heard today that Jason Calacanis has agreed to speak at a dinner with us on Tuesday 20 May 2008. Jason is a true internet entrepreneur having successfully lived, breathed and made money from the internet since 1996.
Jason is a keen adopter of social software tools like Qik and Twitter (if you are not sure what these are you should come along). At the dinner, he will be sharing his thoughts on the search arena. He is particularly interested in exploring how the search market differs internationally, so expect a two-way conversation about the Australian market place.
We are very lucky to have such a high profile speaker joining us.
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Full event details here
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Wednesday 30 January 2008
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ABC Playback announced today
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In the SMH today is a piece about the new ABC online TV channel - ABC Playback
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ABC jumps into digital hyper drive
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Wednesday 30 January 2008
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A dinner with Mark Scott - ABC
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We have just heard that Mark Scott, the Managing Director of the ABC will be speaking at our next dinner on the topic of "Australia's media fragmentation".
Date: 27 March 2008
Venue: Ciel Rouge, Darlinghurst
Time: 630pm
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Wednesday 9 January 2008
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Burns Night and whisky tasting
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It's back - the most popular event of the year. Our Burns night and whisky tasting extravaganza.
This is a special event - you can bring non Innovation Bay members (eg wife, kids, etc). This is a guaranteed sell-out, so please let us know if you (and guests) can make it asap.
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Monday 10 December 2007
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NEW WEBSITE NOW LIVE
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Thanks to David Warwick and his team at Komodo for bringing us into the 21st Century with a fantastic new website. It has a brilliant and easy to use CMS editor which even allows technical luddites like Phaedon Stough to manage and edit the site's content. Watch this space for new content...
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Tuesday 11 December 2007
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Ben Keighran from Bluepulse speaking at our breakfast event on Tuesday 11 December 2007.
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Full event details and audio file here.
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 Ian Gardiner |12 December 2007
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Welcome Tracy Heard
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We are delighted to be announcing the expansion of the Innovation Bay team, with Tracy Heard coming on board as Events and Operations Manager. There are now just over 350 members of Innovation Bay and we have successfully run over 20 breakfast and 12 dinner events since 2005. Tracy will allow us to continue the same level of exclusivity and personal approach to the network, whilst expanding our capabilities.
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Ian Gardiner | 23 October 2007
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Ben Keighran, Bluepulse
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 We are very lucky to have Ben Keighran, Bluepulse Founder and CEO (www.bluepulse.com) speaking at our Innovation Bay breakfast on Tuesday 11 December.
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 By focusing on improving communication between real friends, bluepulse is not only the first trusted social network built specifically for mobile, it's also amongst the World's largest mobile social networks. With active users in 167 countries, bluepulse is positioned as a 'social messenger', explained further on bluepulse.com:
"Take the best of a social network, the best of an instant messenger, revolutionise both and combine them to run on anyone's mobile phone. That's a mobile social messenger, that's bluepulse."
Ben is one of Australia's leading entrepreneurs, taking Bluepulse from its seed stage in Australia through a US$6M series A financing with Vantage Point Venture Partners, http://www.vpvp.com/ an early stage My Space investor, in 2007.
With the bluepulse headquarters now based in Silicon Valley, Business Week recently named Ben one of the North Americas Top 25 Young Entrepreneurs under 25 - see http://tinyurl.com/23nmlu.
Ben will be sharing his experience of taking a vision from a 2-bedroom apartment in Sydney to a global business located in YouTube's old office in Silicon Valley. He'll also discuss what's involved in raising venture capital in the world's technology proving ground and relocating a business from Australia to the USA.
This is Ben's only public speaking engagement before heading back to bluepulse HQ and a definite must-see breakfast for anyone interested in innovation, raising venture capital in Australia or abroad, or those looking to relocate a business to the United States.
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Ian Gardiner |6 December 2007
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