Posts by Paul Campbell
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I agree - I have a company heavily in its early R&D phase - early next year I'm going to be shopping my prototypes around looking for money to finish it all off (ie actually hire some people, start up a sales force, fire up manufacturing, etc etc) things like R&D tax credits show up in ones business plan - questions like "why don't you do it over here in the US, it would be cheaper" will need to be answered
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and something else different (and hillarious) - a California ad against the anti-gay marriage initiative:
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Well I think the whole point of free trade sorts of legislation is that tax breaks are a no-no
What we can do though is intensive handholding of local business - we have a wonderfull resource in NZ: native Chinese speakers - exactly what we need to do biz in China - getting new kiwis involved with local business - training them in how to do business in China from those who know how to do it (just because you speak the language and know the customs doesn't make you a business expert) etc etc
To be fair I think China is going to be hurting with it's biggest trading partner going down the tubes - they're going to be looking around for new people to do business with
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Well you see that if they were "Act" they would know about lower case and not have to shout all the time
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I definitely have the same thing too - but I think it leaves me in the opposite situation - not outgoing, but stuck in social situations where I remember faces but can't remember names
However I do seem to have vaguely mastered the act of introducing someone who's name I can't remember to someone who's I do and letting them fill in the missing piece " Have you met X?" (then let them introduce themself)
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(and should I move my money to Kiwibank?)
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when I moved back to NZ I was looking for a bank, went from bank to bank asking what their deposit insurance limit was (I was moving enough for a house) I kept getting blank stares "what?" - took me a while to figure out that no one had any
So what does happen when my Aussie owned bank goes belly up? they do have some form of DI in Oz - does their govt get first call on my money?
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"the Christchurch effect" - growing up in Dunedin I was used to the game you play when you meet someone new - basically "who do we know in common" - I guess we all thought this worked everywhere - this led to locals doing culturally embarrassing things like "oh, you come from Ohio do you know X".
As a kid walking downtown in Dunedin -you had to be on your toes - it was a terrible faux-pas to walk past someone you knew and not say "hi" - moving to the US it took me a long time to realise that the stress I felt walking down the street was due to looking at everyone in the eye in case I knew them (and the associated dirty looks for getting in their private space) - of course playing the game was out of the question.
20 years later I moved back to Dunedin (I'm not going to call it 'Dunners', where did that come from while I was gone?) and it was all reinforced when we bought our house and discovered that my lawyers partner had owned it prior to the current owner, abd the realtor that had sold it that time was our current landlord, and that the current owner was a lecturer in the Uni dept I used to work for, ....
We've decided that that whole '6 degrees of separation' is crap - in Dunedin it's 1.5
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I notice there seems to be a lot more BDO ads around year this year - someone was wondering last night if it's because they're worried that people in the south have cottoned on that the same headliners are playing BDO in Sydney and it's often cheaper to fly there than Auckland
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Hmm .... coffee ... potential legal crap .... coffee .... legal crap .... that's a tough call