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Chances are you felt inspired with a business idea at some stage. This inspiration sparked dreams where you could launch a business empire and achieve your dream lifestyle.
The next question is what typically stumps most aspiring entrepreneurs, though: “How do I know if this business idea is the right
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Every year Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg picks one “personal challenge” to tackle outside of his work devoted to the social network.
In the past these have included reading two books every month, learning Mandarin and meeting a new person every day.
In a Facebook post (http://ift.tt/1ZJ6tNG), Zuckerberg has revealed his challenge for
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StartupAUS CEO Peter Bradd published a brilliant wrap-up of the year for startups in Australia (growth/the-10-most-memorable-moments-in-tech-in-2015/2015122016183.html) and challenged the startup community to name its own top 10 moments in Australian tech, so I decided to crowdsource a list of badass moments for Australian women in tech.
These women are role models
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Many cities and regions have tried to build their own Silicon Valleys, from demolishing entire suburbs to attract a corporate headquarters (http://ift.tt/1P7Rk3r) through to spending millions on enticing film productions (http://ift.tt/228q2Bb).
An interesting experiment is happening at the moment in Melbourne where the Victorian state government is spending millions on
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For one of the world’s biggest venture capital funds and startup accelerator, placing diversity as a top priority is for the economic benefits rather than the social good.
US-based 500 Startups, which has invested in over 1300 tech companies, will be placing additional emphasis on this aspect in 2016, founder and
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It’s no doubt that 2015 has been a year of major milestones for the tech and innovation sector in Australia.
As for the highlight, it’s hard to go past the recent appointment our tech-savvy Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, who breathed life into Australia’s future economy as he talked about a knowledge-based
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It was fast-approaching midnight on a Monday night when newly minted (planning/business-planning/startups-best-friend-malcolm-turnbull-challenges-abbott-for-prime-ministership/2015091415506.html) Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull strode to the podium in front of a mass of journalists, cleared his throat and proceeded to herald a “new era” for the Australian tech and startup community.
It was as if he’d just been
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It’s been a massive year for Australian startups and 2016 is set to be just as huge.
We’ve seen successful startups like Canva, Shoes of Prey and SafetyCulture score huge investment rounds, as well as the emergence of numerous new and promising ventures, not to mention Atlassian’s global successes.
Here are nine
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The recent enthusiasm in Australia for startups and entrepreneurs and the government’s $1 billion innovation statement may tempt some of the Silicon Valley ‘mafia’ to return home, Pixc founder (https://pixc.com/) Holly Cardew says.
A member of this ‘mafia’ herself, Cardew relocated her startup Pixc to San Francisco last year and spends
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A Wollongong-based startup is offering the perfect service for all the Christmas grinches among us – they’ll send coal anonymously to “your annoying boss, shit mates, lazy co-workers, ungrateful kids or racist uncles”.
Aptly named Send Coal (http://sendcoal.com.au/), the service was “hastily thrown together” by Regan Kerr and Luke Szalla a
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