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Fintechs shouldn’t be treated like normal startups and founders need to pay special attention to regulations and the needs of their users, Santander InnoVentures venture partner Pascal Bouvier says.
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For prolific Australian entrepreneur Jack Delosa, the most exciting recent development for the local startup ecosystem isn’t the government’s $1 billion innovation statement.
Instead, he says the most promising change for the ecosystem’s long-term future is the increase in entrepreneurs with a real passion for the sector.
“The innovation statement has been
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The world is the entrepreneur’s oyster – China, Israel, USA, Ireland and the UK are all going gangbusters in supporting startups and in their own ways saying ‘pick me’.
We are seeing an increasing number of delegations, tours and missions to those countries to understand innovation and startups in places
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For a small but (presumably) well-off number of Australians, air travel between Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra could be about to change. Startup company Airly (http://www.flyairly.com) is planning a new passenger membership model, and aims to compete, in part, with the major Australian airlines.
Its model is based on a successful one
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Just as Malcolm Turnbull’s leadership has breathed new life into the federal government, it has also led to renewed confidence and activity in mergers and acquisitions (http://ift.tt/1Sj93ZG).
Australia’s economic fundamentals have not necessarily improved since Turnbull became prime minister, in fact they have arguably worsened, but Turnbull’s ascension and early
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The UK government is proposing to follow Australia with the introduction of their version of data retention legislation called the Investigatory Powers bill (http://ift.tt/1HgUbHh).
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Long before Netflix even officially launched in the country, many Australians were using VPNs and proxies to access the on-demand streaming service.
And nearly a year since it became readily available, many Australian users still choose to do this in order to access different and more substantial content from the US
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Capital investment in Australia is bewildering and there are five critical steps that founders need to take before even approaching investors, CapitalPitch CEO Jeremy Liddle says.
The Sydney accelerator and equity raiser recently raised its own seed round of $600,000, and Liddle says the investor appetite is sometimes hard to predict.
“I’ve
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With a new and cheaper Samsung VR headset now available, Australian startups need to “innovate hard” in order to capitalise on the technology being catapulted into the mainstream, Virtual Reality Ventures managing director Stefan Pernar says.
The headset is the third incarnation from Samsung and now offers support for four newest
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The NSW government will release its own innovation statement this year to “dovetail” the federal government’s efforts which it hopes will be the “the best policy in the country when it comes to innovation”, the state’s minister for innovation and better regulation Victor Dominello says.
Speaking to StartupSmart, Dominello says the
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