Beer, pizza, panels, and networking. These are the four pillars of a classic startup event, and right across the country you’re almost guaranteed to find an event any night of the week that will be sporting those staples. But as the sector matures, so is the way it congregates. And there’s a rapidly growing wave… Read more »
This year marks a decade of Stripe in Australia. The US global payments behemoth founded 14 years ago by Irish-American siblings John and Patrick Collison now services over 500,000 Australian businesses and has processed more than A$200 billion since landing here The Stripe World Tour rolled into Sydney recently to showcase the fintech’s products and users, and including a… Read more »
There’s plenty of startup action happening in the Sunshine State at the moment, and that’s on show this week at Something Tech. The two-day festival, August 29-30, once again brings together Queensland’s tech and innovation community in their own unique way for “a saturation of expertise, community sharing, and networking”. Festival cofounder Pauline Fetaui, from… Read more »
There’s plenty of doom and gloom about the availability of capital at the moment. Right across the tech landscape from seed-round startups to listed tech companies, founders are feeling the brunt of a dramatic shift in sentiment thanks to the high-interest rate environment. But while much of the commentary seems to label this as an… Read more »
Australians are officially the richest people on earth. I recently read that some time last year we leap-frogged the Swiss who have had the strangle-hold on the top spot for many, many years. We’ve had 26 years of economic growth – again, the only country to do so – and we’re now the number one… Read more »
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