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Being confident in your offering and clearly defining its strategic use can help your startup secure a partnership with a big player in your field, Booking Boss CEO Renee Welsh says.
Booking Boss, an online booking system for the tourism industry, has partnered with online travel giant Expedia, a deal which
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A “brutal” selection process has seen more than 200 applicants for the government’s DataStart program (http://ift.tt/1NL5XJr) whittled down to eight finalists who will pitch for $200,000 in funding as well as Pollenizer and government mentoring.
With one of the finalists unable to take part due to personal reasons, seven of the
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For Australia to become more effective at innovating and shift the culture further from employee towards entrepreneur a wide range of activities need to be undertaken in an aligned and coherent manner.
My biggest criticism about the government’s current approach is that there’s no coherent plan or measurement in place across all activities
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Uber will be slashing prices in over 100 cities to compensate for a lull in demand over the holiday period and to compete with the likes of Netflix.
Unfortunately for Australian Uber users, the cuts will only be happening in US and Canada where people are staying home to avoid the
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Ever since computers were first introduced into the retail banking system in the late 1950s, there has been the vision of a future world where cash is obsolete (http://ift.tt/1Zf89BJ). The near death of personal cheques, increase in debit and credit card use, and innovations such as PayPal, Square, Apple Pay
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On January 5, Twitter founder and recently reappointed CEO Jack Dorsey appeared to confirm (https://twitter.com/jack/status/684496529621557248) a story on Re/Code claiming that the micro-blogging site is planning to change its signature feature (http://ift.tt/1Z5JijG): the 140-character tweet. According to Re/Code, Twitter is planning to increase the character limit on tweets to 10,000,
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Being based in a co-working space is one of the best ways for startups to grow rapidly and build a network around it, River City Labs general manager Josh Anthony says.
Applications for the organisation’s CUA Sponsored Entrepreneur Program have just opened, and Anthony says that co-working spaces like River City
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Ashton Kutcher, Hollywood actor turned heavyweight startup investor, says his best investment is something money can’t buy.
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Despite having two of his startups acquired by some of the largest tech companies in the world, Aussie entrepreneur Nick Crocker says seeking an exit was “never a consideration”.
Crocker co-founded Sessions, which was acquired by MyFitnessPal in 2014, as well as WeAreHunted, which was bought by Twitter two years earlier.
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It was three days before Christmas on a Tuesday morning when UNSW entrepreneurship catalyst Joshua Flannery sent an “odd request” to a group of uni’s entrepreneurs.
Flannery’s friend Martin Orliac had received a message half-way through seeing the new Star Wars film saying that his beloved cat Mozart had fallen nearly
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