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What do JP Morgan, Colgate Palmolive, Bank of America, and Birkenstock have in common? Their age. They are all over 200 years old - older than your grandfather’s grandmother would be if she were alive today. A public company is its own legal entity, with its own heartbeat, soul,
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I used to play competitive field hockey. For those unfamiliar with the sport, it can be a brutal game - it combines the pace of soccer with the physicality of basketball, oh and everybody carries a wooden stick whilst hitting a giant golf ball at each other. What I’m
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There are millions of dollars hiding in plain sight on your cap table right now. And I know this because I have manually found dozens of them, and have the data to prove it. So in today’s article, we are going to cover: 1. High net worth (HNW) vs
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One of the most compelling stories in the financial markets this week is GYG’s IPO. Despite listing with 85% of its shares held by the top 20 investors, GYG’s IPO has already attracted a significant number of retail investors (GYG accounted for 30% of Thursday's total
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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