Business strategy

Startup 360: How to CEO, Fishburners transforms & thinking about staff like investors

- March 14, 2025 2 MIN READ

When do you know you’re CEO material? It’s the question Startup 360 host Simon Thomsen put to Majella Campbell, the newly appointed CEO of Fishburners, Australia’s pioneering startup coworking space. Majella talked about her mentor, Myles Baron-Hay, the former Sydney Swans CEO, saying “why not?” when she had her doubts. “When I was unsure about… Read more »

Melodie founder Evan Buist
Funding

Music licensing platform Melodie raises $1 million

- April 26, 2023 2 MIN READ

Music licensing platform Melodie has raised $1 million at a $15 million valuation, a more than four-fold increase on the $4m valuation when the software startup previously raised $600,000 in September 2021. The raise included follow-on investments from Code Barrel founder Nick Menere, and The Drop Festival co-owner Peter Strain.  The funds will be used… Read more »

Ed Sheeran
Advice

What startups can learn from Ed Sheeran

- March 23, 2018 2 MIN READ

I like Ed Sheeran a lot – his music and as a bloke. He’s one of the nicest guys you’ll ever meet. But I went to his stadium show in Sydney the other week because I was intrigued. Intrigued how one single entertainer with just a guitar, on a stage all by himself, could hold… Read more »