In Silicon Valley, Chris Shipley needs no introduction. She’s been writing about, analyzing and advising startups and early-stage tech businesses for nearly 25 years. On the heels of her successful gig as the executive producer of the DEMO conferences for many years, she launched her own think-tank, the Guidewire Group with its own accelerator space Studio G. She and her team developed the G/SCORE a standardized method to assess a startup across 7 key business factors and allow entrepreneurs to benchmark their company against thousands of companies worldwide.
Chris will be G/SCORE’ing Australian startups starting next week in Sydney as part of ANZA TechNet’s Pitch Slams Down Under, May 25-30. And, today – it has just been announced that Chris will give a brief talk at a series of networking events on why myths like “Get big or go home”, “Fail fast”, and “Don’t invest in anyone over 30” are being perpetuated – and how much truth lies behind statements like these.
Silicon Valley entrepreneurship is fueled by hype cycles as much as by technical innovation or the quest for the “next big thing”. Today we’re approaching the peak of possibly the biggest – and most limiting – hype bubble yet: The Super Angel Bubble. The hype narrative goes like this: If you have a good idea and can attract the attention of the Super Angels, your business will be funded, promoted, built and flipped, and then you too can become a Super Angel.
Be a part of the conversation.
Networking, drinks and of course, Q&A with Chris will be part of these free events. Please register today by clicking on the respective links – Sydney, 25 May at ATP Innovations; Brisbane, 26 May at iLab; Adelaide, 30 May at Innovate SA.
Kathy Drasky regularly writes about online culture. Her marketing and communications work with the ANZA Technology Network, Advance Global Australians and with various Australians and Australian enterprises has led to at least a dozen trips Down Under.
An accomplished digital photographer, her photos have appeared in 7×7 Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle and Google Schmap.
