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On Saturday the NZX hosted an excellent day for tech businesses, focussed specifically on valuation.
The presentations and slides from Ken Bender of the Software Equity Group were very valuable and just showed us how big the tech world is right now.
You can get the slides here: NZX Technology and the Markets Forum - Presentations
There was a great discussion on SaaS and Enterprise SaaS. The hot market is definitely SMB SaaS but I still there is an excellent opportunity for local tech companies in the Enterprise SaaS space where (as Ken says) the delivery technology and security profile of the data suits the application. ActionThis are a good local example of that.
Zeacom presentation is compulsory for NZ tech exporters.
For those in the audience who felt a bit depressed from the talk prior to mine, here is a ray of light: Surveylab closes in on military.
Kudos to NZX for bringing someone like Ken down to NZ.
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Damn right. Surveylab’s product and team are great, and have a real opportunity for greatness.
PS. I’m an early stage investor in Surveylab, so I’m biased, but they’re still great. Go Leon!
Ditto that - a nice blend of soft and hard products. PS - I’m an old freind of Leon’s and Cactus is a supplier to Surveylab
(did anyone else read the headline and wonder if the stock market just crashed?)
Ha, excellent!
do invites to these things ever come south of the cook strait?
Raf,
You’re just sore that you didn’t get one! It was a public event - there’s this amazing thing called the interweb and I saw it written about on there. Now when we’ve got context and relevancy specific content delivery these sorts of oversights won’t occur ;-)
FYI the next edition of the NZX Open magazine is all about building sustainable public businesses in NZ and keeping them here
b
Absolutely! I need an excuse to go to Wellington. Turns out Nick was there anyway and said it was boring apart from Rod’s bit :-)
As for keeping businesses here i agree. We have just incorporated in the US but the main company is still NZ based. At first US VCs didn’t like it but now we seem to have had acceptance from the market on our structure so like Zeacom we will run all of our IP out of Christchurch and all the businesses out of the US and wherever else we go.