Life hacks

Startup360 – the Valentine’s Day launch: workplace relationships, how to win when you fail & why the standards you set come from the ones you ignore

- February 14, 2025 2 MIN READ

Welcome to the Startup 360 product launch! We hope you like our MVP with cohosts Kayla Medica and Simon Thomsen. We want to have founder fun and find out what makes people tick – it’s not about GTM strategies and the next raise, it’s all about staying human. In our first show, Kayla and Simon… Read more »

The Breakfast Club
Advice

Au contraire: why VC’s idea of a ‘contrarian’ mindset doesn’t work if you want a democratic government

- January 30, 2025 9 MIN READ

“What very important truth do very few people agree with you on?” This is the infamous question Peter Thiel used to filter prospective employees and test for their tendency towards contrarian thinking — the type of thinking that enabled Thiel to be a successful venture capitalist. For a while there, many of us also believed… Read more »

AI/Machine Learning

Did China’s DeepSeek just drive the karma bus straight into US AI’s house?

- January 30, 2025 4 MIN READ

The British feminist writer Angela Carter wrote that “Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people”. And right now, quite a few people are chuckling at a tragedy that’s befallen OpenAI amid claims that Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek “stole” the US startup’s data to train its large language model (LLM), R1. A quick recap… Read more »

Marketing, snake oil, salesman, PR, classic
Opinion

7 of 2024’s worst business cliches to quit in the new year

- January 16, 2025 3 MIN READ

Now we’re at the end of another calendar year, it’s often time to look back at our successes, failures, and things that absolutely irritated the hell out of us.  Tom Valcanis shares the jargon and corporate speak that’s pushed his buttons over the last 12 months. Business – especially the university-corporate sausage factory pipeline – loves… Read more »

Fintech

What Australian Open Banking needs in 2025

- January 2, 2025 3 MIN READ

2024 was a pivotal year for Australian open banking. While Australia is seen as an open banking leader, its CDR regime has been criticised for issues including quality of data, slowness of adoption, cost of execution and cumbersome user experiences. This led to Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services Stephen Jones announcing a CDR… Read more »

Laetitia Andrac CEO & Co-founder Understanding Zoe
Opinion

Neurodivergent = genius: 3 myths about neurodivergent strength in entrepreneurship

- November 28, 2024 5 MIN READ

It seems like almost every week, another woman entrepreneur publicly shares her story about being under the neurodivergent umbrella. Inspiring leaders like Celeste Barber, Steph Claire Smith (KIC), Mamamia’s CEO Mia Freedman, and The Digital Picnic founder Cherie Conan are proof that neurodivergence is not an obstacle to achieving success, when working in an inclusive… Read more »

Lisa Sarago, CEO and Co-Founder of Land on Heart and Land on Heart Foundation
Opinion

Representation in tech: How invisible Indigenous leaders face bullying and harassment

- November 27, 2024 4 MIN READ

Earlier this month, the tech world was abuzz with debate following comments from Craig Blair, a renowned VC and partner at Airtree Ventures, at a Tech Council of Australia (TCA) event. Whilst his comments around founders’ “greatly flawed characters” being what “makes them special” sparked concern he was perpetuating toxic leadership in tech, I do have… Read more »

Old-fashioned rusty robots
Opinion

The federal government’s proposed social media ban will condemn young Australians to digital illiteracy

- November 25, 2024 4 MIN READ

The Federal Government’s proposed ban on social media is both dangerous to free speech and risks dooming a generation of Australia’s children to digital illiteracy. It feels good to ban something; it sounds decisive. “Kids addicted to social media? No problem, it’s banned!” Yes, there is a problem with how some children consume internet media.… Read more »