Priv Bradoo

Priv Bradoo

• PhD on a gene discovery
• "Business was for losers"
• Am I empowered?
• Old business school 301
• PGSA 3rd board meeting
• 3 to 13
• Ironed out in retrospect
• New set of challenges
• Ecosystem has to be so entrenched
• Infused into individuals
• Could've been a scientist and could've been entrepreneurial.
• If you don't ask then you'll die not knowing.
• Opportunities exists but you have to put in the effort.
• Hold onto your core.
• Going to clean tech.
• Success is your ability is have a fully rational understanding of the challenges but an irrational understanding if how to overcome it.
• US didn't make sense for Lanzatech. China didn't work out.
• Changed to water clean tech.
• Singularity University
• Entrepreneurship is a mindset not a job
• Goal is to look inside; that there's more than one way.
• Dream big then dream bigger.
• Fail is subliminal. Ask how many times they have failed. If they haven't failed, then don't hire them.
• Learn.
• Let 1000 flowers bloom.

• Branding
• Non-for-profit seed fund for businesses.
• Spark counted as work experience.

Derek Handley

Hyperfactory:

• 2001
• Mobile advertising communications.
• Agencies didn't know how big or how fast the mobile advertising would get.
• Realized that the agencies would start to competing against each other so decided to go straight to the client.
• Connect brands with their consumers using mobile SMS.
• Business plan becomes a bog scribble.
• Believed in the vision.
• Checking-in to make site you're going towards the goal.
• Using New Zealand as a test bed doesn't really work.
• Get a foot in with Saachi & Saachi through a friend.
• Dad had to mortgage his house for a quarter of a million dollars.
• Prepared to take the risk to see the rewards?
• Trouble: you have money. Tend to spend it too fast. Lose focus. Went to raise money from the market too late because of the global financial crisis.
• Trim down the business.
• When looking for capital, they got an offer to sell the business to a media company.
• Took one year to wind back and correct the misalignment and different visions and bad hires.
• Unwritten values hampered the hiring process.
• Global benchmarking.
• Time. Start early. The later you start, the more barriers that will come up.
• If the customer wants customized products then you end up being a customized services business.