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The NSW government has planted a “stake in the ground” and signalled a clear intent to fully embracing disruption and the sharing economy, minister for innovation Victor Dominello says.
The state government released a position paper on Tuesday outlining the five key principles that will guide how it interacts with, and
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On-demand delivery startup Sherpa has expanded into the highly competitive food delivery market with two “unique partnerships” and co-founder Ben Nowlan says this is just the start of the company’s huge plans for 2016.
The startup has partnered with DeliveryHero and Doughnut Time to open up its network of delivery drivers
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The biggest problem that I’m seeing with startup founders is that they aren’t focused on, or interested in, business and the actual processes, theory and practical things involved with running a company that sells something and turns a profit.
For the most part they’re interested in startups pretty exclusively the
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It comes as a shock to many when they realise that the apps and content on their computers and mobile devices are not their property to do with as they wish. This mostly becomes an issue when someone dies and the relatives try and get access to apps, accounts and
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Selling homemade wares on Etsy is no longer a hobby or just an extra stream of income for many creative people, with more than a quarter of Australian sellers turning the platform into their sole occupation.
Two thirds of this group consider their Etsy store to be a business, even
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Copyright matters. It is a body of law that affects what we know, how we experience and understand the world, and what we are allowed to do with the knowledge we gain. But for most of us copyright is more of a snarl. We only know of it as a
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This year’s incarnation of Pause Fest will offer more opportunities for startups, change-makers and creatives to connect, founder George Hedon says.
“We want to make it as exciting and easy as possible for people to find someone who can take you to the next level,” Hedon tells StartupSmart.
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Founders need to excite investors and show they can take them on a memorable journey to secure funding, Grapple founder Christopher O’Halloran says.
The Brisbane startup, offering a tool to help business managers (growth/business-advice-and-education/a-brisbane-based-startup-grapples-with-the-tricky-art-of-project-management/2014080612927.html) automate project documentation, has just secured a seed round of $315,000 from angel investors in Brisbane, Melbourne
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A 3D-printer for the aerospace industry, a world-first device helping to diagnose the human gut and technology helping to maximise gold recovery are among the latest round of startups to receive government funding to help with commercialisation.
As part of the Entrepreneurs’ Programme, the federal government has offered a further $7.8
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A gig-booking platform that has nearly 200 bands listed at launch owes its existence to a misread press release.
Gigger (http://www.gigger.rocks) founder and musician Anthony Manning-Franklin tells StartupSmart he received a press release from a company organising house parties and mistakenly thought they were creating a platform for live music events.
When
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