The first 3 weeks of 2008 have been all about funding, new biz dev, finding a new office space and the work on existing projects. We have made very good progress on all fronts. Four new proposals have been presented. One new project authorised for a major sporting organisation. We move out of the space at NetX in Prahran at the end of this week and have 3 options to decide between by early next week. Work has commenced on the largest project to date for Feedcorp – it is for a major classifieds publisher and will take up to 5 months to complete. We managed to secure funds via an existing investor at the revised valuation on the company at the end of last week and discussion continue with two VC groups. yesterday I sent a proposal off to a travel client looking at our Social Network Intelligence solution and today I managed to secure 3 meetings with major web publishers to discuss the gnoos content aggregation package. All very positive and very exciting!
Daily Archives: February 12th, 2008
Well and truely back on deck for 3 weeks now. I really tried to take time away from the lappy and blackberry and enjoy a summer down the coast with the wife & kids. Just like those summer Christmas holidays I enjoyed as a kid down at Anglesea. Well it was all I hoped for. We had a brilliant house with ocean views towards Lorne, brilliant weather and some great surf to boot.
I got roped into playing coach to the under 8 Nippers squad at Fairhaven Surf Life Saving Club- and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. My daughter proved a champ at the flags and beach sprint while son Gus toughed it out as a 5 year old in the under 7’s. It was simply awesome to see their nwater confidence grow over the summer. Both kids are surfing and body boarding. Gus has developed a great arm from hours of beach cricket with his cousins. We renewed and made many friendships. Many BBQ’s. A few late night parties and one tragic funeral for Tim Gates a Fairhaven SLSC legend who I had the pleasure of meeting through this years coaching role. His death was tragic and untimely and our deepest, warmest thoughts and support go out to his family
Tim will be sadly missed by the Fairhaven club and the SLS movement in general but we will all be back at Airey’s for next summer to carry on his spirit
