Brains Trust
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.
Brains Trust
How to go from startup idea to execution
Founders frequently show a serious lack of appreciation for what it takes to execute. Either they don’t know how to execute, or they secretly don’t want to.
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.
Brains Trust
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.
Brains Trust
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
Ignition Labs applications open until July for Health and Med Tech program
Ignitions Labs, an accelerator for early stage niche technologies, is taking applications for its competitive, intensive business development program.
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
How do you know when an idea is actually a good one?
Market research is particularly good at analysing past performance to predict the future. If we were researching teapots for example, there might be reports out there on how many teapots there are in the world, how quickly they were being produced, in what colour and of what materials. No doubt the numbers could also be segmented into those with round stout bodies versus those coming in octagonal shapes. You could then conceivably predict how many round stout, red teapots will be produced over the next 3 to 5 years.
Other
FailCon returns in conjunction with Vivid Sydney: Superstar list of Speakers
After a hugely successful launch at the Vivid Sydney Ideas Exchange in 2012, the one-day event consisting of presentations and panel discussions is back on Thursday 30 May 2013at the Vivid Ideas Exchange Forum, Level 6, MCA, 9am – 5pm. Adding an exciting element this year, the event’s activities will be illustrated live, by renowned scribe Steve Keast from BOOM! Creative Communications.
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5 Free Tickets to AngelHack!
Then jump start your startup ideas at AngelHack’s global hackathon competition, where you can win $100,000’s in prizes, hack your way into our accelerator program, get flown out to Silicon Valley, pitch the Valley’s top investors, and ALL that for just winning the hackathon! Boo-Ya!
