Entrepreneurship
Every few months, I’m reminded just how special Startmate is - and Demo Day for the Winter 2025 cohort today is another one of those moments. It’s a celebration not just of another set of ambitious founders, but of the community that has quietly shaped the startup landscape
Entrepreneurship
Introduction Today is one of the days you'll remember for the rest of your life. It might be because you feel proud - it is the culmination of thousands of hours work and study. It might be because you feel relieved - no more cramming for exams and
Entrepreneurship
Over the last couple of years, I've been getting increasingly concerned about the future of our city. Leaving aside the rot exposed through the ICAC investigation, I've been mostly worried the future of the city from an economic perspective. Are we going to be a place
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<Update> Dec 2012: So, it looks like Christmas has come early. As mentioned in my April update below, the SSN barrier has been impossible to overcome. Until now. Thankfully, the legends at Stripe (Disclosure - AffinityLive pays them a lot of money, they don't know we
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I've spent a lot of time over the last few months doing marketing planning for Hiive Systems. Unfortunately, our product is targeted at the professional services sector - think consultants, creatives, advisors, and that sort of thing. I've been really conscious in this marketing process NOT
Entrepreneurship
The third #publicsphere event was held in Wollongong yesterday (with nodes in Melbourne and Brisbane joining in). With all things that involve an open forum and public consultation, there will be some good bits, and some bits that don't quite do it for you. In terms of contributions
Industry.AU
I've been planning to write a post on this for ages, but time has gotten away. Seriously. Since March the 26th. That's the day I felt politics in Australia be changed by the internet. It was the day Senator Conroy went on Q&A, the
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CeBIT is happening in a month and a bit in Sydney, and this year they've decided to focus the eyes of the tens of thousands of show visitors on a new showcase section, called Webciety. Webciety is going to showcase a dozen of Australia's hottest web-software
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A month or so ago I was prodded by @pat on Twitter to take some direct action on the #nocleanfeed issue. For those wondering what the hell #nocleanfeed is all about, check out http://nocleanfeed.com. From their website: The Australian Federal Government is pushing forward with a plan to
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I first discovered Pandora as a houseguest of Mike Arrington's back in early 2006, and was immediately hooked. Unfortunately a year or so later, back in Australia, Pandora started blocking access since I wasn't coming from a US IP address - all over about music licencing
Entrepreneurship
Just a few late night reflections on the (Sydney-centred) Australian Startup Community, and more particuarly, SiliconBeachAustralia.org at the centre of it. While I've personally been playing the startup game on and off for a while now (first with Internetrix, which is now pretty established, then Omnidrive that
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Last week, Telstra got booted from the National Broadband Network process, where the Australian Federal Government will be spending about half the amount of money they (wasted) on the bogan bonus to fund/subsidise an improvement in Australia's broadband capacity down to the last mile. Telstra, the largest