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Sydney startup Bountye lets users sell pre-loved items to their networks
As the saying goes, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. From op shops to garage sales and second-hand markets, people have always loved trawling through preloved items for a bargain. Then eBay...
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FitTech is a crowded space and PT Essentials is focusing on the “business”...
To state the obvious, FitTech is starting to become a crowded marketplace in Australia. Though the possibilities are endless when it comes to creating valuable wearable technology, for the most part...
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Lyft raises further $150 million, bringing its valuation up to $2.5 billion
Two months after raising a $530 million Series E funding round, ridesharing platform Lyft has raised a further $150 million, bringing its valuation to $2.5 billion. The round was led by investor Carl...
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Bed Linen Heroes is leveraging licensing agreements with sports leagues to grow
A month after being made redundant from her job as a sales director at a creative agency, Tania Darvell fell down a set of stairs. Instead of sitting in bed feeling sorry for herself with DVDs, she...
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New partnership between Rewardle and Air Asia gives us a glimpse into the...
Melbourne-based startup Rewardle (ASX:RXH) has announced a major commercial partnership with AirAsia that will allow Rewardle members - there are almost 1 million - to trade small business loyalty...
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How learning is changing across the globe
There was an interesting article in The Economist recently stating that everyone living in places like Asia are going to university. In the grand scheme of things, they pretty much are. In a way,...
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CommunityNotes wants to help councils and communities collaborate on...
If you’ve ever had to do anything around your property that needed to go through your local Council for approval, you know it’s a complicated, time consuming process: you have to register the project...
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HR startup Weirdly is helping companies find their perfect “weirdos”
Based out of Auckland, New Zealand, HR startup Weirdly is tackling one of the biggest recruitment challenges that exists today: company culture fit. The startup was founded by Dale Clareburt, Simon...
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Lodgify just raised €600,000 in seed funding. What made Australian investors...
It was announced yesterday that Lodgify, a startup that allows users to create their own vacation rental sites closed a €600,000 (AU$844,646) seed round led by angel investor Chris Hitchen, who also...
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CapitalPitch is a new equity investment platform for startups looking to...
According to Jeremy Liddle, cofounder of RioLife and Director at the Entrepreneurs Network for Young Australians (ENYA), investors say that nine out of 10 businesses that approach them are not ready...
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How to hire an intern without breaking the law
For cash-strapped startups, bringing an intern on board can help, but it’s important to make sure they will actually be getting useful, relevant work experience rather than simply doing the boring...
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Redbubble raises $15.5 million in latest oversubscribed funding round
Melbourne-based online art marketplace Redbubble has raised $15.5 million in its latest capital raise, with the company looking to use the funds to push its international expansion. Investors in the...
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Sydney’s latest tech event Daze of Disruption was not my kind of circus, but...
Daze of Disruption is the latest in the string of “disruption” events to hit Australia in the last few months. With an inaugural run over last Monday and Tuesday, Daze of Disruption eagerly opened it’s...
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Recent study by Intuit indicates Australian startups need to know their...
According to a recent study conducted by financial applications company Intuit, Australian entrepreneurs rank highly when it comes to qualities like having ideas, being passionate, having great skill...
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Startup Winephoria wants to make choosing wine fun by matching wine to your...
Though Australia’s wine regions are world renowned, the stereotype of a country full of beer drinkers persists - perhaps because wine is so famously difficult to understand and buy. As a result,...
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Qwilr’s innovative platform may just bring an end to one of biggest problems...
Sydney based startup Qwilr, founded by Mark Tanner and Dylan Baskind, announced last week that it has raised $500,000 in a seed round led by Sydney Seed Fund and Macdoch Ventures. There were a number...
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From co-founder to ousted CEO of 500px: Trials, errors, and lessons learned
Started in the early 2000s as a community on the LiveJournal blogging platform, 500px has become one of the most popular places in the internet to store professional and amateur photos, with more than...
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Rocket Internet-backed Spotcap launches in Australia, offering SMBs microloans
Spotcap, a Rocket Internet-backed startup offering microloans to small and medium businesses, has launched in Australia. The startup, founded by Toby Triebel and Jens Woloszczak, was established in...
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Sydney startup Prize Pig is making it easier for small businesses to connect...
As a small business owner, public recognition around your products or services in mainstream media can bring along with it many benefits. It not only creates a perception about what you do, the uplift...
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BlueChilli to produce interactive StartRail maps for each of Australia’s...
BlueChilli is urging startups to complete its StartRail survey, with the results to be used to produce a series of interactive maps detailing Australia's startup ecosystem. The StartRail map will...
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