Your mission should you chose to accept it is – innovate – like your life depends on it.
Read more "The Thin Emerald Line of Innovation"What Is It? Not all entrepreneurs have startups, sometimes they are still deciding what they want to do or decide if they are prepared to accept the associated challenges to their work life balance, income, use of capital and other risks. An Intrapreneur is any person displaying entrepreneurial characteristics while still being employed by a […]
Read more "Being An Intrapreneur"One Building Represents Both Past and Future Preserving Yangon’s cultural past and cultivating Myanmar’s creative future. The Secretariat occupies approximately 16 acres in the South of Yangon, and was designed by British architect Henry Hoyne-Fox (1855-1905) as the epicentre of Rangoon (present day Yangon) the first South-East Asian garden city. Work started in 1890 on […]
Read more "History of The Secretariat Yangon"Heaps of Tech Founders. Best value for money in Sydney. We are in the final stages of committing to a large space next door to St Leonards railway station. 657 Pacific Highway St Leonards (previously 100 Christie Street) exclusively for tech startup founders and their enablers (educators, investors, mentors and advisors). Come for the great […]
Read more "New iCentral Space at St Leonards"Another great summary from CB Insights to help understand the initial public offering market for the year ahead in technology. Most companies first raised five years prior. Only twelve were unicorns ($1Bn+) this year vs forty the year prior in 2015. Read the full 2017 IPO pipeline report here. You may also like – The […]
Read more "2017 Tech IPO Pipeline Report"What Is Your Ecosystem Maturity Level? Where there are startups, there is also startup communities and a startup ecosystem. However startup ecosystems vary a lot in clarity, visibility, size and and their maturity level. When it comes to startup ecosystem development, the clarity and the maturity levels matter the most. Clarity is about how clear […]
Read more "Startup Ecosystem Maturity"We can’t be the biggest but we can be the best connected.
— Pete Cooper 2009 on the Australia and South East Asian Tech Startup Ecosystem
Read more "Hyper Connected"Insurance tech is booming but where is Australia in the rankings? New research by Oliver Wyman and CB Insights shows a disturbing picture for Australian insurance tech investment and deal flow across all areas from reinsurance to health and distribution even conferences. Read the full insurance tech report.
Read more "Insurance Tech is Booming but…"People often ask – Why choose Australia as a base for business or as a home? Why choose a country so far from everywhere with such a tiny population (of people) and so many ways to get killed by the native wildlife? Why create a startup or build a life where white pointer sharks, killer […]
Read more "Why Australia?"The New Ecosystem Metrics We might be turning a corner. There is no doubt we are at least 15 years into a macro wave that is seeing internet enabled businesses disrupt industry after industry globally. Many are cooked before they even realise it. But personally I think there are a few less obvious local Australian […]
Read more "Seven Startup Ecosystem Leading Indicators Are Booming"Time to open the gate, and let our innovative tech startups be free to grab this huge global opportunity. Lots of good news and optimism in the last six months. Even some great talent focusing on this global opportunity around tech startups with global products. But the reality is the local ecosystem is still moving […]
Read more "Unlocking Startups"StartSoc helps entrepreneurs help themselves While other parties in the ecosystem are important such as investors and educators, it is the entrepreneurs, the hackers, hipsters and hustlers (also kn… Source: Why did we create The Start Society?
Read more "Why did we create The Start Society?"We have been asked to make some submissions this Friday to help the startup community. New government initiative to get startups going and growing. Do you have an idea on how we can get government to level the playing field for tech startups? Drop us a line via the comments section on the Facebook link […]
Read more "Real startup ideas for government by real founders?"Opinion Piece by StartSoc Founder Pete Cooper ‘The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn and relearn.’ – Alvin Tofler. Humans learn and create value for themselves and society in weirdly diverse ways. Learning usually doesn’t actually require lots of money. […]
Read more "Peer Learning with Shoulders not Precincts"Congratulations to Vinomofo for securing a $25m investment from Blue Sky Funds this week. Read the full story in ZDNet. You might also like to read Investors in Tech Startups in Australia – a list by StartSoc Tech Start Ecosystem in Australia – a list by StartSoc
Read more "Blue Sky Invests $25m into Vinomofo the tech wine startup"A massive new co-working space is coming to Melbourne called Dream Factory, the tech startup space is being setup in Footscray by Geoff Gourley’s Impact Investment Group with a rumoured $14m investment. Read the pre-launch announcement on Startup Smart http://www.startupsmart.com.au/advice/growth/new-14-million-co-working-space-set-to-open-in-melbourne/ Make an expression of interest http://dreamfactory.org.au
Read more "Mega New Melbourne Coworking Space"Legends of Innovation For the first in our new series of posts on legends of innovation we cover the Fairlight CMI (Computer Musical Instrument) company from Sydney Australia made famous around the world by fellow legends like Stevie Wonder. This new series is focused on global scale tech startups that were ahead of their time […]
Read more "Fairlight Computer Musical Instrument"Do you know someone in our community that is making a difference? Nominate them for an Advance Award in 2016 nominations close late April.
Read more "Advance Awards call for nominations 2016"Get in quick for this mid-March 2016 national roadshow if you would like to hear about incubator funding from the department of industry, innovation and science and of course also have your say… full invitation here…
Read more "Fed Govt Consult on $8m into Incubators for #IdeasBoom"Fav Tech Startup Slides of early 2016 by Pete Cooper
Read more "Fav Tech Startup Slides of Early 2016"Great fit out ready to go and even better location. Walking distance to Martin Place, Wynyard and Circular Quay. Moments from Stone & Chalk Fintech hub and counting most of Sydney’s movers and shakers as neighbours this is an excellent second option for us to start negotiations with next week. Let us know your thoughts! […]
Read more "Option Two for #iC2 is 70 Phillip St"
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