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Manly Emporium: Snazzy new hub for tech entrepreneurs
In the heart of NSW’s Northern Beaches, a snazzy new co-working space is being launched for fast-growing technology and web companies to get their creativity flowing.
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12 ways for non-tech founders to build a startup
Here are 12 actionable ways non-technical founders can start their companies.
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Startup launches “Australian-first” phone accessory vending machine
Those of us afflicted with first-world problems know exactly how frustrating it is when our phone battery goes flat or we’ve forgotten our earphones at home. But Queensland startup MobileCentral24/7 has developed a simple, yet ground-breaking solution!
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Slango covers ALL bases for Gen Y Travellers
Slango founders AJ Koch and Jake Cunningham saw a couple of major errors in them and as avid travellers who enjoy partying in Mexico they decided to create a product that solved them.
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How one Japanese gaming startup is generating $3.8 million in revenue per day!
Puzzles and Dragons is currently the number one top grossing free to download application in Japan for iOS and Android. Reports suggest the app is currently making around USD$3.8 million a day or around USD$54 million per month.
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50 Influencers in the Startup Space you should know!
Today we look at 50 influential people across the Australian startup space that you should know by name.
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Owning Australia’s Subscription Service Space
Success and profitability within the first 8 weeks is a huge priority for the agency, Subservice’s investment of team and process eliminates a lot of the variables that make starting a successful company on your own a near-impossible feat.
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My app failed and makes no money
So I had an idea once. It was awesome, in my opinion. I thought it would be cool to create a gaming app where you could flick around icons from other popular apps.
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The Premium offering probably the best when it comes to Startups & Legals
I have to admit, when it comes to setting up the legal side of things within your business, I am hesitant to use the basic template based offerings that currently exist in the market.
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Your idea Sucks!
Having recently moved up to Sydney from Melbourne to take on a new opportunity, one of the first ports of call on my list was visiting arguably Australia’s largest start-up conference
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Startup Productify show Retail that Images Sell!
Productify was Co-Founded by Doron Ostrin and Dean Steingold in June 2012. It was born out of the frustration of trying to share images and descriptions between wholesalers and retailers online.
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Startup Rewardle says goodbye to fat wallets & loyalty cards!
Rewardle is an Australian mobile app start-up that is on a mission to clean out the paper and plastic loyalty cards filling wallets everywhere. The Rewardle app available on iOS and Android uses customers smartphones and merchant POS material featuring QR codes to allow consumers to record and carry their membership data at participating businesses… Read more »
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Hey Startups, I’m calling bullshit. You don’t understand sales.
In general around 80% of sales people I have met, are pretty average, because they really don’t understand the science around sales and the difference between that and account management. There is a HUGE difference. When you are starting up a business, before you have accounts to manage, this is when your truly see what sales and business development is all about.
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Growth Hacking [how to get more customers with less spend]
I admit it, I was wrong. When I first imagined building Airtasker, I thought that from the start, marketing would be the most significant factor in building a successful marketplace for services. After a few months of pushing our developers to build lots of stuff to support online marketing campaigns, Jono (Airtasker COO and co-founder) and I started looking at the data and realized that whilst we had a pretty good net promoter score, we were spending some of our money on acquiring customers who weren’t going to be die-hard advocates of our service.
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Meeeup, Taps into Friends of Friends on Facebook.
The website taps into Facebook users already existing social networks to match them with extended friends networks. Everyday, Meeeup sends the user a match chosen from their social graph, and the user has 24 hours to decide whether to “Meeeup” or “Meeeno” that match. If the user selects Meeeno, that match will never occur again. But if there’s a mutual Meeeup, the users will be connected. What’s more, once a connection is made, members will receive exclusive offers to redeem at the cities top trending hot spots when they meet up.
