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A few months ago, fast-growing Australian startup Vinomofo embarked on a “weird” experiment.
For the last four years, co-founders Justin Dry and Andre Eikmeier have measured their success the same way most companies do – through revenue and profits.
But the online wine retailer prides itself on its core values of
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A key theme of Malcolm Turnbull’s $1.1 billion innovation statement (growth/innovation/malcolm-turnbull-unveils-1-billion-innovation-statement/2015120716085.html) is the need to risk failure and learn from it.
“Sometimes entrepreneurs will fail several times before they succeed and will usually learn more from failure than success,” Turnbull said on Monday.
It’s estimated that about 90% of startups will fail,
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The government’s $1.1 billion innovation statement’s “narrow” definition of a startup is “mean-spirited”, prominent entrepreneur Adrian Di Marco says.
Although saying it’s still a step in the right direction, Di Marco says more needs to be done to support the local startup community.
The CEO of Brisbane-based TechnologyOne was disappointed by the
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A capital raising is fundamentally a social movement.
If you communicate clearly, win followers and have a unique insight people can get excited about, the money will follow.
Getting target investors involved in the journey in a real way is a great first step to successfully raising capital.
Make sure the investor
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The headline $1 billion figure of Malcolm Turnbull’s Innovation and Science Agenda (http://ift.tt/1PS2hti) is to be warmly welcomed. But we need to get real about how far we’ve
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It’s been 40 years since the United Nations declared 1975 the first international women’s year, choosing Helen Reddy’s I Am Woman as its theme song. The words, “I am woman, hear me roar”, are still lingering in the air today.
The problem is that when it comes to the information and
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Two US technology sites have claimed that the creator of the digital cryptocurrency Bitcoin is an Australian businessman called Dr Craig S Wright.
Both Wired (http://ift.tt/1TztBKz) and Gizmodo (http://ift.tt/21NnSqx) have based their conclusions on documents and emails “leaked” to them by an unnamed hacker who claimed to have worked for Wright.
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Controversial ridesharing app Uber has introduced two new safety features to bolster confidence and security for its users.
Under the new changes, users’ phone numbers will be anonymised, meaning drivers will no longer be able to see a passenger’s contact details, and vice versa.
This has been a common concern regarding the
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Scott Kupor, CEO and a managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, recently published an article on Fortune.com (titled “Your next business partner should come with a prenup”) in which he reviews several of the common pitfalls of business partnerships and wisely suggests to address them using a prenup agreement. One critical issue Kupor discusses is the vesting of founder shares in… Read More
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Session lengths started to be counted not in hours or even minutes, but in seconds. Software had to blend into our life, augmenting it rather than supplanting it. Speed and simplicity became the keys to success. And it all came down to nailing something specific. The shift to mobile was a philosophical one, not just a matter of shrinking functionality to fit a smaller screen. The tech… Read More
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