Morgo is Jenny Morel’s summit for people involved in NZ’s high-growth businesses.  You’d be hard pressed to find a conference room in New Zealand with more entrepreneurial energy and smarts.  Nearly all of the speakers are inspirational, and the quality and level of conversation is extremely high.

Unfortunately, Chatham House Rules apply, but here are some of the best generic quotes of the day:

Ross Stevens – Victoria Design School:

The future is remarkable but the present is stranger than we believe

A lot of futures projects have a very large bullshit factor

Mark Billinghurst – Hitlab NZ

(Quoting Bill Buxton) It takes 20 years for new technologies to go from the lab to the living room

The future is with us.  The trick is to spot it – commercialisation is more about prospecting than alchemy.

Selwyn Pellett – Endace / Imarda

Knowing where you’re going saves everything: time, energy, money, reputation, marriages

I don’t care about where our products are manufactured, or even designed. What I do care about is where we pay tax – we need to ensure our tax base stays healthy in New Zealand, otherwise it will place a disproportionate load on the rest of us.

Recurring revenue is very addictive!

Bill Reichert – Garage Technology Ventures

New companies need to be global on day one.

The biggest value adds in startups come from stealing other people’s technologies and integrating them in a novel way that is hard to replicate.