Peter Christo

Archive for the ‘Entrepreneurship’ Category

I get regular requests for two things, a buisness plan template, which I warn people may be a poison challice, and the screening framework we use at Christo Partners. I am very selective to whom I pass on out Business Plan template, but if you would like the screening framework, here it is.
Note that the [...]

The fundamental challenge in innovation is the underpinning framework within which we engage opportunities. It is similar to the underpinning framework of something like contract law. Contract law underpins our commercial ecosystem that allows us to manage our risk and assure ourselves of the various inputs to our business.

Corporations are creating a new executive role as a way to foster innovation, undertake corporate venturing and create a competitive advantage for themselves as part of their operations. Say hello to the Innovation Manager!

18 Nov, 2009

Pitch Club

Posted by: Peter Christo In: Entrepreneurship

Looks like Pitch Club is in for a shake up next year.  We’ll be launching more than 10 chapters nation wide. Big stuff!  If you have had the Pitch Club experience and would like to be a Chapter Pesident (or at least find out more), zap me an email.

On another matter, Arion Program, spawned in Christo [...]

I have entered into a collaborative deal with RMIT’s Bachelor of Business Entrepreneurship to “kill two birds with one stone”.  Students need for experience, and new ventures need for commercial evaluation, strategy and planning.
I am inviting new venture and startup business opportunity owners to nominate their ventures as prospective projects for the Entrepreneurial Venture Class [...]

04 Jun, 2009

Snapshot June 2009!

Posted by: Peter Christo In: Entrepreneurship

It’s been a while since I posted, which is symptomatic of high activity (in this case) rather than low.
After enduring the startup years between 2006 and 2008 with Christo Partners, I have managed to create a vortex of ventures which is keeping me very busy and forcing the business to grow as the commercialization advisory [...]

Hedge Funds and the Global Economic Meltdown from Judd Bagley on Vimeo.

The eye of the GFC tornado.

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11 Jan, 2009

Fishy Business Strategies

Posted by: Peter Christo In: Entrepreneurship| Intraprenurship

Business principles that facilitate the development of strategies which result in a competitive advantage and therefore increased chances of business success are probably the most overlooked and least understood business activity.

Vision of the future: Organization 2.0
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About

I have been self employed or involved in business ventures (in one form or another since 1995), having only worked for 2 years in industry after my undergraduate degree. I undertook a number of business ventures some more successful than others. After a wild ride between 1999 and 2002, I undertook a Masters degree in Innovation and Entrepreneurship and simultaneously got married and became a dad soon after. These two events re-orientated my perspective on life as I knew it. I am now involved in multiple business ventures. I also lecture in entrepreneurship and I am a “doting dad”. This blog is mainly about that revised perspective, and is an opportunity to reflect on the current juxtaposition between business ventures, fatherhood and just being a man. Thanks for visiting!