Mat Beeche
Mat attempted to be an actor until he was told he was too fat for the part of the Red Power Ranger. He was the founder of Startup Daily and lecturer of Media Entrepreneurship for Macleay College in Sydney and Melbourne.
Advice
Amazon Web Services is democratising the technologies that are core to business models of the future
It was 5 years ago that Amazon Web Services launched in Australia, set up infrastructure, built a team, and began engaging with local companies.
Caltex Spark Program
Meet Louise Warner – Executive General Manager, Fuels and Infrastructure
Louise is responsible for ensuring competitive reliable fuel supply for our customers. Louise’s career has spanned a range of roles within the company, starting as a process engineer at the Kurnell refinery. Louise gained commercial and trading experience through her secondment to Chevron UK. Recently, she was responsible for successfully establishing Caltex Australia’s first overseas operations, Ampol Singapore,… Read more »
Caltex Spark Program
Meet Richard Pearson – Executive General Manager, Convenience Retail
Richard is accountable for leading the transformation of Caltex’s retail and consumer fuel business. Richard has worked in retail and consumer goods for twenty years in Australia and the UK with a broad range of leadership experience across commercial functions. Before joining Caltex, Richard was a member of the leadership team at Coles Supermarkets where he… Read more »
Topics
Chobani announces first Australian cohort of its food-focused incubator program
Yoghurt company Chobani has launched the Australian arm of its food-focused incubator program, announcing the five startups set to make up the first cohort.
Opinion
Telstra says its video business Ooyala is now worth zero – this could have been avoided by focusing on creators
Companies like Vimeo and Youtube have built their culture around celebrating the creator community on their platforms and the work they create. Telstra and Ooyala didn’t.
Topics
Are Australian startups prepared for data breach notification changes?
New laws require companies that experience any significant data breach to notify The Office of The Australian Information Commissioner and impacted clients.
Advice
Indigenous startup founders set to make an impact in 2018
These Indigenous founders are set to become household names with the positive impact they are making for their people and within the tech ecosystem.
Topics
A straight Chinese billionaire just became the sole owner of Grindr, the world’s largest gay-networking app
It was in 2016 that Chinese gaming company Kunlun Group first purchased a stake in gay dating app Grindr for US$93 million.
Opinion
Women with great ideas and the men that take credit for them…
Too long have women contributing great ideas remained silent whilst male colleagues have presented them as their own.
Topics
Hype UQ Spin Lab program announces first sportstech accelerator cohort
There are 12 startups taking part in the first intake of the HYPE UQ SPIN Lab program, which will run in conjunction with the Commonwelath Games.
Advice
A lesson about self awareness from PagerDuty cofounder Alex Solomon
Before launching IT operations management platform PagerDuty in 2009, Alex Solomon had earned his street cred as a software engineer for Amazon.
Topics
Mark Zuckerberg announces changes to Facebook newsfeed affecting brand, media, and business pages
Changes to the platform’s newsfeed algorithm that will result in a drastic decline in content from business, brand, and media pages being seen by users.
Other
Fantasy gaming and media are the most popular vertical for Australian startups in the wider sportstech space
The Australian e-sports industry, already worth around $1.2 billion, is going to experience unprecedented growth in 2018.
Other
NSW is leading the sportstech scene when it comes to funded ventures
Looking at sportstech startups that have received funding since 2015 and where they have come from, NSW ranks highest for the most activity.
