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For 18 months I have been to almost every hackathon in Sydney.
I love everything about them: the random way the teams form, the focus and passion, the meeting of minds, the collaborative alchemy and the volunteers who give up their weekend to mentor and support the hackers.
And I’m not alone
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Australian investors will have unprecedented access to high-growth Israeli startups under a new partnership between equity crowdfunding platform VentureCrowd and a VC firm.
Melbourne-based Kentgrove Capital was the cornerstone investor in the platform’s oversubscribed $2 million funding round and will be sourcing startups from Israel to list on the site.
Half of
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A new co-working space has launched in Melbourne with the aim of promoting “positive human collisions” and making the tech and startup world more inclusive and diverse.
Creative Universe have partnered with Dimension Data to launch the Dimension 5 space in South Melbourne.
The co-working hub will have a special focus on
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The Prime Minister’s announcement on Monday 7 December of a National Innovation and Science Agenda (http://ift.tt/1UsBGBL) is a welcome development. However, the challenge will be for the government to turnaround our National Innovation System (NIS) (http://ift.tt/1kxV5gU) which has been steadily in decline for some time (http://ift.tt/1UsBGBM).
As outlined in the Prime
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Looking ahead to the new year is an excellent time to reflect on your achievements and evaluate your business.
What does your idea of success (http://ift.tt/1JhjEPe) look like for 2016? People start their own business for many different reasons and motivations. Therefore, your idea and definition of success may be
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At the top of some children’s Christmas present wish list this year will be the new Hello Barbie (http://ift.tt/1kYGOC2) doll.
Mattel’s latest doll connects to the internet via Wi-Fi and uses interactive voice response (IVR) to effectively converse with children. When the doll’s belt button is pushed, conversations are recorded and
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The Australian startup community’s relationship with Israel has “never been more important” with the first of the entrepreneur landing pads to be established in Tel Aviv, minister for industry, innovation and science Christopher Pyne says.
The landing pads were announced as part of the $36 million Global Innovation Strategy included in
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A Brisbane-based wearables startup that helps monitor and care for people with dementia has secured a $3 million investment from OneVentures (http://ift.tt/1sFf99D), as the VC firm turns its attention to larger later-stage funding.
Find-Me has developed the Carer’s Watch (http://ift.tt/1UrNhAZ), an “all-in-one personal response system” fitted with a GPS tracker and
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A data-driven startup backed by Coca-Cola has become the latest startup to spin-out from Data61, providing a blueprint for how entrepreneurs can leverage public sector research, HIVERY co-founder Jason Hosking says.
Using a combination of machine learning and artificial intelligence, HIVERY uses prescriptive analytics to boost retail profits.
The technology has been
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When my co-founder Bernie and I began to build the Rome2rio (http://www.rome2rio.com) product, we drew heavily on our experience working at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington.
As time passes and our team grows, we are consciously blending various cultural characteristics of US tech companies with our own Australian approach to work, to
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