Business strategy

Business strategy

If the tech industry truly wants to succeed, then it need to be more humble and generous

Vijay Sundaram - January 11, 2021 4 MIN READ

  The ecosystem of technology companies and startups stands out for its intense competition, rapid scaling, and an often cut-throat, growth-at-all costs environment. It is an industry that did relatively well over the pandemic, while many others faced existential threats under the cloud of a global recession. The imposition of remote work and the rapid… Read more »

Business strategy

How AI and business intelligence will change how we work in 2021 

Business strategy

Ignition Lane’s Weekly Wrap: Pizza arbitrage, bed photographers and Google’s ethics problem

Business strategy

Ignition Lane’s Weekly Wrap: Atlassian’s win in the Salesforce-Slack deal, Shopify sets new records, Afterpay’s US sales are tops

Business strategy

Why you should never give your MVP away for free or at a discount

Capital Raising

Capital Raising

What founders need to do to ace due diligence with investors

Benjamin Chong - January 12, 2021 3 MIN READ

Investor due diligence has one simple objective: to reduce the risk of the venture capital (VC) investor losing their money. In the early stages of a budding relationship between a VC and a founder, due diligence is an informal “get to know you” process. Startups are vetted on the basis of qualities such as the… Read more »

Capital Raising

Australian VCs raised more than $1bn in capital for startups, but the median funding for Indigenous ventures sits at $0

Capital Raising

How VCs make sense of the hype in technology startups

Capital Raising

A successful founder, now reinvesting in startups, explains why he likes Steve Baxter’s syndicate model

Capital Raising

How to land your first capital raise: 10 lessons for founders from someone who’s just done it