by Anne-Marie | Jan 22, 2018 | Blog
Still recovering from the 2017 #SCFemFounders Mission! 2017 was a big year of travel for me across Tokyo, Austin Texas, Hong Kong and London. These ramblings are about my week in London with 10 other women as part of the inaugural Startup Catalyst Female Founders...
by Anne-Marie | Nov 13, 2017 | Blog
Howdy Austin! Not long ago I embarked on a short adventure; 11 days in Texas without knowing anyone there. I’d been invited to speak at a conference about Digital Kids Media so stayed on to test Austin’s Startup scene. I put feelers out to my Aussie contacts and...
by Anne-Marie | Oct 15, 2017 | Blog
An Aussie’s experience of pitching in the US Did someone say Opportunity? I was already Texas-bound to give my personal take on global trends in digital kid’s media, so when the Summit organisers opened applications for an integrated pitch event I filled out...
by Anne-Marie | Oct 8, 2017 | Blog
Speaking in the US A few months back I was in procrastination mode and trawling Google to keep an eye out for any new Wantu competitors. I lucked on a conference about Children and Digital Media, the next day an industry body email mentioned the same conference...
by Anne-Marie | Sep 25, 2017 | Blog
The first time I travelled to the US without my family was in 1980 as a naïve 17-year-old. I found out months later that in my initial days there no-one understood my fast-talking Aussie Strine! Apparently, it was my incessant chatter and smiles that kept people...