MORGO 2008 day 2

This year’s MORGO conference wrapped up today with more good sessions, interesting speakers, and great networking.

Choice quotes:

Mary Quinn, author of “Kidnapped in Yemen“:

It’s all good until it’s bad

Mark Ahn, Victoria University Management School:

There are two features which differentiate successful from mediocre investment funds.  The good funds accelerate fast failure, and they also accelerate companies that are meeting and exceeding their targets.

On average, the announcement of an alliance has an 18% uplift in the market value of a small cap company.

Glenn Martin, Martin Jetpack

If your competitors start abusing you personally and your family, you know you’re onto something.

Amateur is not a dirty word – we’re all amateurs in some sense, and enthusiasm carries us through.

Spreadsheets do lie – you can’t include everything in the plan.

David Cunliffe, Minister of Communicataions and Information Technology

You guys [entrepreneurs] are the real inspirers – let’s take our beautiful little place to the next level by working together.