Insights
How to survive a Startup Weekend
Startup Weekend events are now a staple of Australia’s startup ecosystem. There were over 20 last year, ranging from agtech through to female founder events.
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.
Profiles
Hunchbuzz is an idea management platform targeted at the enterprise space
Hunchbuzz helps to track all the insights that a HR, Change and Transformation or Innovation department within a company should be. The startup was founded by Tom Mitchell and Steve Graham and is based out of Wellington, New Zealand.
Insights
Original business ideas are overrated
I constantly meet people who have had the same idea for an original business in their head for years and are yet to even begin making it a reality. More often than not, these people will tell me that I am smart enough to come up with a great product and I shouldn’t be in a “me too” business like an Online Marketing Agency.
Profiles
1200 Young Entrepreneurs take over Sydney Town Hall
Looking at the size of the 1200 strong crowd above I am taken back to three years ago when I attended my first ever Unconvention with 350 other like minded people – the growth of the movement is something that Jack Delosa and his team should be extremely proud of.
Profiles
Dean McEvoy teams up with Paul Schell to launch new venture, IconPark
A first of its kind for Australia, IconPark is being hailed as the first crowdfunding platform and real estate fund dedicated to the bar and restaurant sector.
Profiles
Technologies we need in the First World to facilitate further laziness
Technology has been sewn into the fabric of our culture. In fact, society and technology is co-evolving in such a way that we cannot understand one without the other. But before we design the next genius phone, let’s consider some technologies we actually do need. And by ‘need’ I mean so we can actively become less active.
Profiles
Is stealing ideas better than innovating? Martin Martinez shares his view
There are four ways aspiring entrepreneurs can develop their million dollar idea. They can stand in the shower and wait for the ‘aha!’ moment. They can listen to customer complaints and detect trends. They can market-test an existing idea to see if anyone else cares. Or they can just steal someone else’s.
Insights
When knowledge counts for naught
One day early on in my career as a coach I remember picking up from the ground a program I had written for an athlete, a program I had spent a lot of time and effort on. Hours of research and practice it seemed counted for little if the program was neglected.
Profiles
UNSW Startup Games to take place this Saturday
A program that has seen New South Innovations (NSi) at the University of New South Wales align with Australian start-up luminary Bart Jellema’s to create the UNSW Startup Games, to support students in bringing their idea to life.
Other
Do Something. The first step in your startup is always the hardest.
“At least DO SOMETHING! DO! Don’t think, don’t hope, do! At least you can come off and say ‘I did this, I shepherded, I played on. At least I did something.’” – John Kennedy, Sr, to the Hawthorn players at half-time in the 1975 AFL Grand Final.
Insights
Stop talking about your “brilliant” startup idea!
Aspiring startup founders need to stop talking about their brilliant startup ideas. Nobody cares about your idea. It’s an idea backed up with action that counts. Initially nobody cares because nobody gets it.
Other
Bringing Ideas to Life
EVERYONE comes up with great ideas. The success that is achieved from the idea varies dramatically based upon what you choose to do with it. Ask yourself, “If I die tomorrow, will I be happy with how I lived today?” If you answered ‘no’, I wrote this for you.
Other
Startups are about to become ‘Trendy’
Some might argue that the Startup Space and Tech have been trendy for a while – most of those people are actually from the startup world though – and in our own world’s don’t we all think we are a little bit cool? When I say trendy, I mean mainstream trendy and when I say mainstream trendy I mean everybody will soon “want” to be an entrepreneur. Because people want to be what they see on TV.
Other
Valuable Ideas are Worthless
I don’t know how many times I hear people talking about their top secret “valuable idea”. They get paranoid about sharing it, they worry about people discovering it, they want people to buy it off them and they think that it’s worth millions.
