There are many competing priorities that founders must juggle when running a startup and the temptation to cut corners is great but there are some corners that shouldn’t be cut… your Employee Share Option Plan (ESOP) is one of them! Why? Well, because as I’m about to show you, ESOPs impact everyone from employees, investors,… Read more »
Ask most startups why they want to scale and the answer is often the same – to make a bigger impact. The hard part is ‘how’. Early-stage startup NanoCube Health has a global vision: to early detect and treat cancer using cutting-edge nanotechnology. Their innovation has the potential to save lives. Follow founders Lisa Milani… Read more »
Deep tech ventures are capable of creating global impact. They bring unrivalled improvements in living standards for citizens, such as lengthening average life expectancy, creating jobs and opportunities, and raising wealth. And they can also generate massive social, environmental, and financial returns for Australia specifically, including building long-term economic growth and resilience. Deep tech currently… Read more »
Australia’s Consumer Data Right (CDR) turned four this week, and as the fintech sector gathered at a sold out event to discuss and debate its progress and possibilities, industry lobby group the Australian Banking Association (ABA) released a massive whinge on the issue. The ABA commissioned a strategic review of open banking from consultancy giant… Read more »
While podcasts have become all the rage when it comes to talking to founders about startup life, NiceTo founder Preethi Mohan has decided to take things to the next level with a live talk show shining a spotlight on the superstars of ecosystem. The Startup Palette Show, presented by NiceTo, and supported by Investment NSW,… Read more »
Whether it’s your half-year or end-of-year marker, June 30 is an important milestone for founders. It’s a time to reflect on the health of your runway and, depending on the diagnosis, it’s a time to determine your operational bandwidth for investor engagement. It feels particularly significant in 2024 when we see startups taking a minimum… Read more »
When Australian startup fever took hold in the mid-2010s, state governments used taxpayer money to support high-growth technology businesses with the intent to leverage the benefits these businesses could deliver to future-proof their economies. As a result, sophisticated industry scaffolding began to emerge in support of the fearless few willing to dive in and try… Read more »
We are living in a world where each day delivers depressing news cycles and social media posts of trauma, crime, wars, death, health crises and violence locally and globally. The words and narratives we read, speak and write matter more so now than ever. The impact of constructive language to mobilise, inspire and reimagine is… Read more »
Almost half of all Australian workers are currently watching for or actively seeking a new job, according to a recent Gallup report. High stress levels, murky work-life boundaries and the fact that pay packets don’t go as far as they used to can all become compelling reasons to look elsewhere. Many may be tempted by… Read more »
Sharing my observations of the UK market after having just completed our annual Tribe Global Ventures scaleup trade mission to the UK during London Tech Week and time spent in Germany. The airports are quieter Across the board during my time in the airports in Brisbane, Dubai, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Munich and Heathrow, all are noticeably… Read more »
While venture capital funding is a benchmark of success that receives a greater share of attention than the daily business of startup life, building with bootstrapping is front-of-mind for many founders, often out of necessity. So Unfunded, a new podcast by tech writer Joan Westenberg is bound to be essential listening for many keen to… Read more »
As we draw into the second half of 2024, we are declaring the end of winter for startups, and enjoying the fresh green shoots of startup spring. While we are all hearing constantly about AI, there are many more areas of growth in the fintech world where we’re seeing warming interest from investors. Payments, digital… Read more »
At every conference, on every panel, year after year, the same tech leaders ponder the same question: Why don’t more women receive venture capital funding? The participants stroke their chins and furrow their brows. Perhaps, they muse, it’s due to societal gender norms that discourage women from pursuing entrepreneurship. Maybe there’s a lack of access… Read more »
As commencement speeches go, tennis great Roger Federer had a straight sets victory at Dartmouth College on the weekend. The 20-time Grand Slam champion confessed it was just the second time he’d visited a university campus and one of the reasons why he was there was because his longtime agent and business partner Tony Godsick’s… Read more »
TL;DR The last decade has been the ‘heyday’ for horizontal SaaS, and vertical SaaS has been comparatively quiet. What has held vertical SaaS back is simple: bad customers. Go-to-market motions in vertical SaaS have been stuck in clunky enterprise mode, while horizontal SaaS has consistently cracked product-led growth that has underpinned rapid and efficient scaling. AI is… Read more »
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