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Guy Ryan is inspiring young New Zealanders to create socially conscious startups
Though it often goes unnoticed by those of us across the Tasman, New Zealand’s startup scene is booming. For Guy Ryan, recently named New Zealand’s Young Entrepreneur of the Year, the future of the...
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Sydney startup ConX wants tradies to stop relying on word of mouth to find work
When we think of job search platforms, the big names like Seek and CareerOne are the first to come to mind. However, as niche platforms targeted at specific industries keep popping up, it’s becoming...
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The mergers and acquisitions round up
Another Friday, another mergers and acquisitions round up. A few big names have splashed some cash this week, including Visa and Uber. Get up to speed with it all: IBM Watson Group acquires AlchemyAPI...
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YouChews will not be going to China with other muru-D startups; its focus is...
I think we have all been there before, sitting around a boardroom table or standing within a room at networking events being offered stale sandwiches or cold chain store pizza as "snacks" to get you...
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Spotify’s Design Lead on Why Side Projects Should Be Stupid
Tobias van Schneider lives his life like one big side project. Today, he designs and builds new products for Spotify in New York, but he couldn’t have predicted that when he dropped out of school at...
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Growing from a startup to a large company. Where startups go wrong in the...
It’s not easy being a startup. Statistically, the odds are against you. A survey by Bloomberg has revealed that a shocking 80% of small companies fail within their first 18 months of existence. Now...
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The Top 50 Women Entrepreneurs Under 40 List of 2015
Unlike other lists of this nature we use a wide set of metrics in putting this list together, this means that although financial turnover or capital raised by the entrepreneurs business is a factor we...
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Deckee is essentially TripAdvisor for boating
Though Australia is surrounded by water and Australians love nothing more than being out on the water, entrepreneur Mike McKiernan believes that the boating industry has often been left behind by...
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Here are the 15 most well-funded startups in Southeast Asia
When it comes to startups and entrepreneurship, most of the narrative in the past years have been focused on Silicon Valley. 2014 is the year where Southeast Asia proved itself to be a worthy...
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Perth’s Spacecubed partners with Gurney Branding to help startups get their...
A lot of startups have interesting products and ideas that could end up changing the way we do something forever. Sometimes, though, startups find it difficult to get their vision across to consumers...
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Snapchat co-founder Evan Spiegel will be speaking at an event for University...
In an exclusive event hosted by the Young Entrepreneurs Society and the University of Sydney Union, co-founder of mobile technology startup Snapchat Evan Spiegel will participate in a student only...
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Stashboard is a cloud storage platform for creatives
There are a number of easy to use cloud storage and productivity platforms readily available online, but two Sydney creatives have launched a new platform called Stashboard in the hopes of helping...
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Freelancer completes its 14th acquisition; buys assets of Israeli startup...
This morning Freelancer made an announcement to the ASX that it has acquired the assets of Donanza, a similar service marketplace based out of Israel. Donanza was founded in 2008 by Ami Dudu, Liran...
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Airpocket wants to be more than a product; it aims to be a customisable...
Airpocket is a new type of carry on bag that has been designed to fit in the back seat pocket on planes. It has multiple compartments that organise all your essential travel items in front of you such...
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Health Writer Hub aims to help freelancers develop expertise in writing about...
Much to the chagrin of medical professionals, the internet has allowed people from all over the world to self-diagnose and easily get information that should most likely be coming from doctors. Having...
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The mergers and acquisitions round up
Another Friday means another mergers and acquisitions round up. Catch up on all the moves here: Twitter acquires Periscope Periscope, a live video streaming startup, was quietly acquired by Twitter...
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Bugcrowd has raised a $6 million Series A round
Yesterday afternoon, crowdsourced security testing startup Bugcrowd announced in a blog post that it had closed a $6 million Series A round of funding. This brings the total amount of funds raised to...
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Uber vs goCatch: We Put Taxi-Tech to the Test
Global giant Uber and Aussie start-up goCatch are the two dominant players in taxi-tech in Australia, battling it out for supremacy in our capital cities. We put the two big players, Uber and goCatch,...
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‘Australian businesses are drowning in data’ and SurveyMonkey’s new Managing...
Almost a year ago, globally leading survey platform SurveyMonkey opened its doors in Australia - the company's first base in the Asian-Pacific region. At the time, the platform had around 830,000 local...
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Moneyball lets sports fans put their coaching skills to the test against...
Australians are famous for our love of sport, and given it’s impossible to watch a broadcast of a sporting event without seeing at least a dozen ads for a sports betting website, it seems we love...
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