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New Zealand startup Flossie helps beauty salons avoid empty appointment slots
New Zealand startup Flossie is a software platform helping customers easily find, book, and pay for beauty appointments at partner salons.
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A lesson about self awareness from PagerDuty cofounder Alex Solomon
Before launching IT operations management platform PagerDuty in 2009, Alex Solomon had earned his street cred as a software engineer for Amazon.
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Sydney startup Kindershare is a peer-to-peer network facilitating the rental of baby equipment
The idea for a service like Kindershare first came to cofounder Vahouni Nazarian after a trip the family took when her first daughter was five months old.
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Perth startup Tap into Safety helps companies train staff on workplace safety and monitor staff mental health
Tap into Safety was founded by Susanne and Geoff Bahn in 2014 after decades spent looking at health and safety in the workplace from different angles.
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Sydney startup Chester has created an outdoor storage chest for secure package deliveries
Chester is a wifi-enabled outdoor storage chest that can facilitate the secure delivery of packages without anyone being home.
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How bikeshare startup Mobike approached its expansion into Australia
Despite the skepticism before being converted to the wonders of cycling in Singapore, Mina Nada firmly believes bike sharing can come to make up a key piece of Sydney’s transport infrastructure.
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Picaluna is an online platform helping people plan “authentic” funerals by giving them choice of service providers
Picaluna is an online platform that aims to instead offer “a better way for family and friends to say goodbye to the people they love” by connecting them to a network of trusted service providers for more choice.
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Five lessons learned from my first failed business that helped get the next one off the ground
By Mandeep Sodhi, cofounder and CEO of HashChing Telling my father I was starting my own company was not an easy conversation. As with many Indian families, he’d always expected that I would become a doctor, or an engineer, or a lawyer – one of the “safe” professions where hard work was rewarded with a steady… Read more »
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Mackay startup Vira helps rental car companies and their customers better record a car’s current condition
For Mackay’s Tracie Crombie, however, her family’s time on Family Feud meant a chance to win some cash to help fund her tech startup, Vira.
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Western Australian startup Speqs allows users to virtually try on glasses in real time
The idea for Speqs and its virtual try on solution came from cofounder Bjorn Russell’s experience playing around with the L’Oreal Makeup Genius app.
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How and when to appoint a board for your startup
A board is a carefully chosen collection of individuals who – together with the company founders – can serve as a strategic resource to help guide the business.
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How we got our bootstrapped startup debt-free and profitable
By Miles Burke, founder and CEO of 6Q. In early 2015, we announced that we were building a SaaS employee survey product that helped track employee sentiment and provide valuable data to managers. The startup was a side project of an existing business, a Perth-based digital marketing agency. We created the MVP for 6Q in a… Read more »
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Lessons learned from running an international accelerator program in Australia
By Chris Chang, Program Manager, Techstars Adelaide Running Techstars Adelaide, the first accelerator for Techstars in Asia Pacific, has been an incredible learning experience and introduction to the Australian startup ecosystem. Before I arrived in Adelaide, I’ll be the first to admit that most of my knowledge of Australia’s startup scene was limited to Atlassian,… Read more »
Opinion
Congratulations, your Bitcoin obsession is killing the planet
The higher the value of Bitcoin the more energy people will use in order to compete for it during the mining process.
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Social media app Sweep connects users for chats within geo-fenced venues
Sweep works through ‘Geochats’, chat rooms which are fenced in to a specific location, such as a bar or a festival, so that only people at the particular venue or event can take part.
