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#UNCON15 Sydney – 8 – Journey of an Investor

Peter Davison (LI | Twitter), Founder of Fishburners (Site | FB | Twitter | G+) and Early seed investor in PayPal An early seed PayPal investor. An incredible success story. A humble Aussie goes to America and comes back wealthy. Peter was the last one on the block at #UNCON15. This session was different to all the other presentations, a slower paced question & answer conversational type between…

#UNCON15 Sydney – 7 – Genius on Stage

Ruwan Weerasooriya, Founder of Rewardle (Site | FB | IG | Twitter) At first we didn’t know what Ruwan was going to bring to the table this late in the conference. It was creeping towards the end of the conference and typical of 3 o’clock i’tis, our energy levels were getting lower. I think everyone wanted to stay to listen to the conversation with Peter Davidson, who is assumed to be a…

#UNCON15 Sydney – 6 – Selling and Emotions

Annette Lackovic (Site | FB | LI | Twitter), Sales Expert at The Entourage (Site | FB | IG | LI | Twitter) Annette Lackovic was a lady who owned the stage. She was fearless. She’s a highly knowledgeable sales and marketing expert who keeps up with the latest trends. She can present, she can talk, she can teach and she can rap. Her rap music video was highly entertaining! She certainly was one of…

#UNCON15 Sydney – 6 – Elevator Pitch

Petar Lackovic (FB | LI | Twitter), Head Trainer at The Entourage (Site | FB | IG | LI | Twitter) Petar was the host and MC for the whole conference. He was really good at it too! He knew how to keep the 1,300+ crowd going with his motivational tone and clear voice. He was impressive. Using an interactive style, Petar taught us how to create our very own elevator pitch.   What is an Elevator…

#UNCON15 Sydney – 5 – Jack Delosa, The Entourage

 Jack Delosa (Site | FB | IG | LI | Twitter), founder of The Entourage (Site | FB | IG | LI | Twitter)Jack came back on as the mid-way speaker. This time he taught us that a startup has a lot of different stages. As an entrepreneur / founder, you need to change and grow with the startup. Your business will never outgrow you! From all his research, he came up with 5 stages. Where are you on your…

#UNCON15 Sydney – 4 – Cliff Obrecht, Canva

Cliff Obrecht (FB | LI | Twitter), Co-Founder of Canva (Site | FB | IG | LI | Twitter) Canva is a much needed software in the design industry, where technical design tools meets user interface simplicity. Cliff was a man who had a bit of experience with his journey so far. He was there up on the stage that day, ready to teach other entrepreneurs. He looked like a stand up person. A few years ago…