With the long-awaited results of the NSW HSC out this week, many young Australians, after 12 years of schooling, are facing big decisions about their future during one of the most turbulent times in history. So we asked 10 startup founders and tech CEOs to weigh in with the advice and insights that they wish… Read more »
Working for a venture capital firm, I’m lucky to meet and support hundreds of startups in our portfolio and beyond. Many of these startups are at the earliest stages – they might not have a product yet, or perhaps their startup is just an idea. At Blackbird, our mission is to invest in wild hearts, with… Read more »
Today, October 3, is National Techies Day. Coming just two days after International Coffee Day and on a Sunday sounds about right, because you can imagine most techies are already on their 4th coffee of the day and working at what they love on a Sunday. The global day is designed to celebrate techies or… Read more »
Startmate’s Open House program, kicks off next Monday, May 17. The free, two-week long virtual festival – the former Office Hours – gives budding and early-stage founders the chance to problem-solve and learn from expert founders and operators at some of the region’s top start-ups through 1:1 mentoring, founder-to-founder relationship building, fireside chats and functional… Read more »
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.
Mentorloop has raised $725,000 in funding from venture capital firms Blackbird Ventures, Rampersand, and Tempus Partners, and a number of angel investors.
OK RDY is a matching platform connecting students with professionals and companies for mentorship and skilled volunteer opportunities.
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.
BRiN is an app that leverages curated educational video content, artificial intelligence and user data to take business coaching to a new dimension.
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.
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.
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]
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’.
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