News & Analysis
Melbourne startup Mentorloop gears up for UK expansion
Melbourne-founded Mentorloop, a platform making it easier for companies to run and measure internal mentoring programs, is gearing up to set up shop in the UK.
News & Analysis
Melbourne startup Mentorloop raises $725,000 from Blackbird, Rampersand as it gears up for growth
Mentorloop has raised $725,000 in funding from venture capital firms Blackbird Ventures, Rampersand, and Tempus Partners, and a number of angel investors.
Profiles
Canberra’s OK RDY connects students to industry mentors to help them figure out their first career steps
OK RDY is a matching platform connecting students with professionals and companies for mentorship and skilled volunteer opportunities.
Profiles
Mentorwalks launches in Australia to get women solving problems together on a morning walk
Mentorwalks brings together mentors and mentees for a morning walk; mentors are grouped with a couple of mentees working in similar spaces, workshopping issues together as they walk.
Profiles
Educational content combined with AI will likely replace the need for basic business coaching
BRiN is an app that leverages curated educational video content, artificial intelligence and user data to take business coaching to a new dimension.
Profiles
Melbourne startup Mentorloop helps organisations facilitate and track mentoring programs
Founded by childhood friends in Melbourne in 2014, Mentorloop looks to make it easier to start, manage, and participate in mentoring relationships from within a company.
Profiles
Sydney startup wants to provide mentorship to entrepreneurs who can’t afford expensive programs
Ask nearly any business leader how they came to be successful and they will tell you that they had a lot of help and advice from mentors along the way. Now, mentoring – or the facilitation of it – has turned into a business itself.
Other
So you think you can mentor?
How do the flavours of mentorship differ between private mentoring, walls of names and photos at coworking spaces, or t-shirt-wearing teams of mentors at Startup Weekend? [Source: Tech Tidal]
Profiles
Rare Birds founder Jo Burston wants women to think and ask big
There are a few mantras that Burston has integrated into the Rare Bird culture such as ‘If she can, I can’ and ‘You’ve got to see it to be it’ – but for me the stand out attitude is this concept of ‘Think Big, Ask Big’.
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.
News & Analysis
StartupGroovy offering new programme for budding entrepreneurs
If you’re looking to get your startup groove on overseas, StartupGroovy is here to accommodate. Launched today, StartupGroovy offers a holistic solution for startups to keep their costs low while travelling abroad – including accommodation, office space and support from a community of entrepreneurs in various lean cities.
Brains Trust
I do weekly conference calls with my competitor
There is nothing more intimate that two men in the media space can do then screen share their Google Analytics pages, the back ends of their websites, their lead collection tools and strategies and readership growth campaigns. To be honest doing THAT takes more trust for me than having sex with someone, at least when it comes to sex you can use protection – when it comes to sharing intimate details in business it is a whole different ball game.
