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Business

New research reveals important financial reasons for work from home policies

- May 2, 2025 4 MIN READ

In the pre-industrial era, people often lived and worked in the same building. This removed the need to travel to work. The separation of home and work occurred much later, during the Industrial Revolution. Factories and offices were grouped in designated areas and residential zoning was invented. Even then, people typically spent about 60 to… Read more »

Life hacks

Startup 360: Female founders fluke it, bringing back biodiversity, New Zealand bachs and the law

- April 11, 2025 2 MIN READ

To understand a little bit of what women founders deal with in the hunt for investment, consider the comments from a VC that got back to Camille Goldstone-Henry, cofounder of biodiversity startup Xylo Systems, on episode 9 of Startup 360. Xylo helps companies address environmental protection alongside development, and landed a major international client. The… Read more »

Business strategy

Startup 360: How to CEO, Fishburners transforms & thinking about staff like investors

- March 14, 2025 2 MIN READ

When do you know you’re CEO material? It’s the question Startup 360 host Simon Thomsen put to Majella Campbell, the newly appointed CEO of Fishburners, Australia’s pioneering startup coworking space. Majella talked about her mentor, Myles Baron-Hay, the former Sydney Swans CEO, saying “why not?” when she had her doubts. “When I was unsure about… Read more »

Future of work

Burnout isn’t the enemy – it’s the message, but are you ready to listen?

- March 12, 2025 2 MIN READ

Everywhere I turn I hear another story about how burnt out everyone currently is. How everyone is overworked. That they’re at their breaking point. In fact, Deloitte did a survey on professionals in the workplace, stating “77% of respondents say they have experienced employee burnout at their current job”. Now before we start pointing fingers and… Read more »

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Advice

The moral responsibility that comes with success: Daniel Petre on why you can afford to, and should give, even when you’re not wealthy

- February 21, 2025 5 MIN READ

Daniel Petre once worked with Bill Gates and has achieved amazing tech success – along with the riches that come with it. Here he shares what the real meaning of having money is, and what he’s doing with his.   I wasn’t wealthy growing up. My parents were Romanian immigrants who came to Australia after… Read more »

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 »

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After Hours

Your watch will soon know more about your health than your doctor

- February 7, 2025 4 MIN READ

Sleep tracking, oxygen saturation, fall detection, mindfulness: today’s smartwatches and fitness trackers are jacks-of-all-trades – but experts believe we’re just getting started, with new sensors and AI-driven analysis soon set to diagnose more disease than doctors do. It’s a big prediction for a device category that only hit the mainstream in 2007, when Fitbit gamified the working… Read more »

Business strategy

15 tech archetypes: the good, the bad, the mixed and downright ugly 

- February 6, 2025 6 MIN READ

The tech and innovation ecosystems are dynamic and interconnected networks fuelled by startups, investors, institutions, corporates, individuals and other entities. Startup Genome suggests that ecosystems are often defined within a 100km radius from a central city, providing governments with data-driven insights to benchmark success and focus their efforts. But what really happens inside an ecosystem?… Read more »