Advice
10 lessons for high-performing startups
US-based startup mentor, entrepreneur and investor Oji Udezue builds products that enhance the way we live and work. He shared the 10 must-haves for high-performing startups.
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DCC Jobs raises $1 million seed round led by Skip Capital, rebrands to WORK180
Employment platform DCC Jobs has raised $1 million in seed funding and rebranded to WORK180 as it continues on its mission to connect women with roles at organisations with a focus on gender equality.
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Tech and Finance entrepreneurs dominate this year’s Young Rich List
Of the 100 names on this year’s Young Rich List, published by the AFR, exactly half of them made their wealth in the finance and tech sectors.
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How these Australian scaleups are investing in company culture
Looking to take its company culture to the next level as it scales up is Airtasker, which recently appointed Mahesh Muralidhar as its new Head of People Operations.
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Surprise, surprise: lack of female role models and gender bias among key barriers facing women in tech, survey finds
A lack of female mentors and role models, and gender bias in the workplace are the biggest barriers facing women in tech, a survey from ISACA has found.
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Australian tech leaders speak out against Trump’s immigration restrictions
Founders from TechSydney have called on Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to condemn President Donald Trump’s immigration restrictions.
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Atlassian acquires project management software company Trello for US$425 million
Atlassian has kicked off 2017 with a bang, today announcing its acquisition of Trello for US$425 million ($577 million) to further its mission to help teams work better.
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Tech dominates 2016 BRW Young Rich List with heavyweights Atlassian and Campaign Monitor leading
It’s no surprise that Atlassian cofounders, Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar have once again dominated the BRW Young Rich List. The two tech heavyweights have accumulated wealth of over eight and a half times than that of the runners up.
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Atlassian awards $250,000 grant to Aussie edutech startup 40K Foundation
Australian edutech startup 40K Foundation has today announced it has received $250,000 in investment from Atlassian Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the tech giant. 40K Foundation was selected from over 100 international non-profits and is one of four startups receiving an accelerator grant and technical support from Atlassian.
Advice
Should startups be obsessed with becoming a Unicorn company?
Within the last 12 months the global tech startup ecosystem has seen more companies than ever before rise to the status of unicorn. Just this week hipster glasses ecommerce play Warby Parker joined the club with its new billion dollar valuation. In fact, it’s starting to become an occurrance that happens every other month with New York based marketing startup Sprinklr reaching a $1.17 billion valuation in March.
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Atlassian founders publicly apologise for sexist presentation
The founders of Atlassian, a 14-year-old Australian-founded maker of enterprise software, were quick to publicly apologise after one of the company’s engineers made sexist remarks in his presentation at the AtlasCamp developer conference in Berlin, Germany.
