Business strategy

Business strategy

Bright Sparks: 3 things you need to see this week

Maxine Sherrin - June 15, 2021 2 MIN READ

Welcome to our weekly column on the important things to see and do for the ANZ startup community, brought to you by the director of the Spark Festival, Maxine Sherrin. Every Tuesday she picks out 3 things worth putting in the dairy for the week ahead. If you’d like to know more, sign up to the Weekly… Read more »

Business strategy

4 lessons from a founder who bootstrapped until his startup’s $2.9 billion sale to a global tech giant

Business strategy

If you want your product to succeed, don’t launch with an MVP, try minimum loveable instead

Business strategy

Kill your competition not yourself: why startup culture needs to shift

Business strategy

Why I sold my edutech startup after 18 years of building it

Capital Raising

Capital Raising

Financial models for startups: more than just a spreadsheet

Benjamin Chong - March 9, 2021 3 MIN READ

When an investor asks a founder to reveal their financial model, they are looking for the best possible attempt to provide a consistent, financial representation of the expected performance of the startup. It consists of well thought out projections about the future of the business, and a properly structured, understandable, and dynamic spreadsheet with easy-to-read… Read more »

Capital Raising

How to tell the difference between a venture capitalist and a banker

Capital Raising

What founders need to do to ace due diligence with investors

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