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When Patrick Crooks was trying to pitch his mobile payments startup to a big bank three years ago he was “horrified” by the barriers in place and the unwillingness of corporates to collaborate.
“I really, really battled,” Crooks tells StartupSmart.
“I realised there was a massive cultural problem here with how
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A lot of entrepreneurs we talk to believe that getting a patent is some sort of prerequisite to starting a startup.
But in most cases patents are something an early-stage startup should totally avoid.
Here’s why you don’t need a patent and what can you do to reasonably protect your intellectual property.
When it
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Most startup pitches dedicate a slide to the problem they are solving.
They seek to explain how painful the problem is, or how big and broad a problem is. But what problem are you really solving here?
I’m not sure the problem perspective is the right one. When assessing startup investments I
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After failing to come to agreement with Apple to enable mobile phone payments, six of Australia’s biggest financial institutions this week signed on (http://ift.tt/1Z9YZ6c) with Android Pay. The service will go live in Australia in the first half of 2016.
Both Android Pay and its competitor Apple Pay allow consumers to
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The Dallas Buyers Club LLC v iiNet case appears to have come to an interesting junction yesterday when Justice Nye Perram moved (http://ift.tt/1NwKbXH) to dismiss the case “in its entirety”.
Justice Perram had already said in August (http://ift.tt/1Tz6rbq) that DBC’s contention was “surreal (http://ift.tt/1TWp83S)”. This week he added:
[…] it needs to
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Founders need to be thinking about an exit for their startup “from the get go” to ensure it reaches its full potential, OneVentures managing director Dr Paul Kelly says.
Kelly was behind the recent $280 million exit of head lice treatment biotech company Hatchtech (growth/lice-killer-biotech-exit-comes-up-to-scratch-for-blue-sky/2015092315570.html) and says that as much focus
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There are no guarantees of success in entrepreneurship, particularly when blindly following some overly simplistic formula for success.
But when entrepreneurial teams possess these seven critical attributes and skills they will have the abilities they need to write their own formula for success.
If your entrepreneurial team does not possess these attributes,
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New South Wales has become the second Australian jurisdiction to legalise controversial ridesharing platform app Uber, only weeks after a Melbourne court ruled it effectively illegal in Victoria.
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A new $5 million innovation hub will be launched in Queensland offering “unprecedented” support to create the state’s next “startup success story”.
Announced by Brisbane Lord Mayor Graham Quirk on Thursday, Australia’s largest co-working space Fishburners will be the anchor tenant of the new hub, which will be called the Capital.
Located
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Startup founders need to brace for a dip in investor interest in the first half of next year in anticipation of the taxation changes in July coming into effect, BlueChilli general manager of corporate innovation Colette Grgic says.
BlueChilli has launched a new accelerator program in collaboration with the Chamber of
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