Andrew Barnes
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Go1’s Andrew Barnes says incubators are not the ‘silver bullet’ startup founders hope they’ll be

- August 25, 2021 4 MIN READ

Startup incubators have their value but they aren’t a “silver bullet”, the CEO and founder of recently anointed Australian unicorn Go1 has warned as the six-year-old company gets ready to invest its newly acquired $272m ($US200m) VC windfall. The success of the newly-minted unicorn wasn’t always assured, CEO and founder Andrew Barnes told a recent ‘Ask Me… Read more »

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Ignition Lane’s Weekly Wrap: OnlyFans seeks G rating, ASX results bubble, Muskbots

- August 23, 2021 7 MIN READ

Welcome to Ignition Lane’s Weekly Wrap, where they cut through the noise to bring you their favourite insights from the technology and startup world. Ignition Lane works with ambitious business leaders to apply the Startup Mindset to their technology, product and commercialisation problems.  This wrap goes out free to subscribers every Saturday. Don’t forget you can catch Gavin Appel discussing… Read more »

Canva
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Ignition Lane’s Weekly Wrap: Canva’s cloud, tech lobbies up, LaunchVic’s 4-year plan

- August 16, 2021 6 MIN READ

Welcome to Ignition Lane’s Weekly Wrap, where they cut through the noise to bring you their favourite insights from the technology and startup world. Ignition Lane works with ambitious business leaders to apply the Startup Mindset to their technology, product and commercialisation problems.  This wrap goes out free to subscribers every Saturday. Don’t forget you can catch Gavin Appel discussing… Read more »

Afterpay, Nick Molnar, Anthony Eisen
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Ignition Lane’s Weekly Wrap: It’s hip to be Square, a big week of raises, Twitter’s hunt for AI bias

- August 9, 2021 6 MIN READ

Welcome to Ignition Lane’s Weekly Wrap, where they cut through the noise to bring you their favourite insights from the technology and startup world. Ignition Lane works with ambitious business leaders to apply the Startup Mindset to their technology, product and commercialisation problems.  This wrap goes out free to subscribers every Saturday. Don’t forget you can catch Gavin Appel discussing… Read more »

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12 startup lessons I learnt from Seth Godin

- August 5, 2021 7 MIN READ

I recently had the pleasure of speaking with marketing luminary, Seth Godin, for an episode of the Future Squared podcast. Here’s what I learnt. Of course, Godin needs no introduction to most of you reading this, but the TLDR of it is this – he’s the author of 19 books including titles such as Linchpin and Purple… Read more »

Spriggy
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Ignition Lane’s Weekly Wrap: Hatches, matches & startup dispatches; all the raises; big tech’s reporting season

- August 2, 2021 7 MIN READ

Welcome to Ignition Lane’s Weekly Wrap, where they cut through the noise to bring you their favourite insights from the technology and startup world. Ignition Lane works with ambitious business leaders to apply the Startup Mindset to their technology, product and commercialisation problems.  This wrap goes out free to subscribers every Saturday. Don’t forget you can catch Gavin Appel discussing… Read more »

London
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How to make your tech startup global

- July 12, 2021 3 MIN READ

Wondering whether there’s a much bigger market for your solution or services outside of Australia? Once upon a time, setting up a foreign outpost was a very big deal for software startups from our part of the world. Risky, expensive and difficult to superintend from thousands of kilometres away. No longer.  We set up shop… Read more »

Xero, Rod Drury
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Ignition Lane’s Weekly Wrap: Xero turns 15, local space race takes off, Hotmail turns 25

- July 12, 2021 6 MIN READ

Welcome to Ignition Lane’s Weekly Wrap, where they cut through the noise to bring you their favourite insights from the technology and startup world. Ignition Lane works with ambitious business leaders to apply the Startup Mindset to their technology, product and commercialisation problems.  This wrap goes out free to subscribers every Saturday. Don’t forget you can catch Gavin Appel discussing… Read more »

Catalan tower
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4 things you need to know for startup success

- June 28, 2021 4 MIN READ

Starting a new business is an exciting yet daunting idea for many, and there is a sobering reason for that – statistically, most startups are bound to fail. Despite the unique experiences of each business, there are a few golden rules to follow regardless of your product or service. Here are four key steps on… Read more »