Strategy
There’s a great story I read about a US start-up (let’s call them “Flame”). With their mobile app, Flame had an excellent take-up rate for new customers. But they struggled to get repeat customers and the issue they diagnosed was that the open rate on their in-app announcements
Strategy
Roadshows always look like this. Most roadshows that I’ve witnessed all follow a similar process. (1) Introductions. “Hey, nice to meet you again”. (2) The pitch. A pitch deck comes out quickly and the MD starts into the pitch. There’s usually reference to where things left off, or
Strategy
We spoke to twenty-four directors and executives at public companies to ask them for their advice for a new CEO. Here's what they had to say.
Strategy
Every passing year, attention spans get shorter. We are all more, and more, contactable. The lines between work and private life blur more. How we communicate and interact with each other changed drastically with the arrival of the smartphone and the evolution of the internet. Not only do those interactions
Strategy
Have you ever opened your registry, seen some random name with a random address, that's not only entered your registry but bought decently? All of a sudden, someone's gone from nowhere to your top 200, top 100, top 50 or even higher. You have to wonder
Strategy
Did you come to one of our community dinners? We have held dozens of community dinners between 2023 and 2024, split between Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney and Perth. We have tried different formats, sizes of audiences, topics, guest speakers and more. We have met with more than 200 ASX executives, from
D2I
Investor selling activity presents challenges for issuers looking to understand what drives these decisions and how they can convert shorter-term traders into longer-term shareholders. As part of InvestorHub's investor behaviour analysis for issuer placements (specifically; post-placement selling activity), we were able to identify a key statistic that issuers
Strategy
What do a primary school teacher, a government employee, and Steve Jobs have in common? Well, the primary school teacher is my mum, the government employee is my dad, and I have no familial relation to Steve Jobs. They do, however, all happen to be in the same generation of
Strategy
This week, I spoke to three overseas-based, but locally listed CEOs. All of them had come off the back of an Australian roadshow, spending a few weeks here, meeting face to face with their major shareholders, brokers, firms etc. Why are they meeting face to face? Because it works so
Insights
Did you know the average trade value on the ASX and AIM is a mere $4,850? Yup, you read that right—four thousand, eight hundred and fifty dollars. For a marketplace that handles over 2 million trades every single day, that's a pretty modest sum. Yet, don&
Ever heard of Anthony Mahavoric? What about Sasha Fierce? No? The odds are you have, but just know them by another name. Anthony Mahavoric was born in 1960, and you will know him by another name - Tony Robbins. Watching Tony now you can be forgiven that he has always
Strategy
Congratulations! You just raised a tonne of money and validated investor demand in the business. Yes, you had to give a discount, maybe even an option, but you got it away and the job is done. Now you can go back to concentrating on the actual business, spend the money,