It took a chance meeting between Cameron van den Dungen, founder of a start-up mattress company, and Madhu Bhaskaran, an engineering professor at RMIT University, to see an opportunity to collaborate and commercialise research. Van den Dungen had a dream of creating a bed for use in aged care to monitor sleep quality and comfort.… Read more »
Welcome to our weekly column on the important things to see and do for the ANZ startup community, brought to you by the director of the Spark Festival, Maxine Sherrin. Every Tuesday she picks out 3 things worth putting in the dairy for the week ahead. If you’d like to know more, sign up to the Weekly… Read more »
As the founder of more than a dozen businesses over 20 years, I’ve had the privilege of bringing together, and then working with, some of the world’s most talented people. Both as a founder and leader, you have a wonderful and enormous responsibility to shape a work environment where those people can flourish. Creating something… Read more »
Salaries for IT professionals are still on the rise despite slow wage growth in Australia, a new survey has found. Recruitment firm Robert Walters has published its annual salary guide which once again shows high demand for local technologists as digital transformation ramped up over the past year. Managing director of the company’s Asia Pacific operations, David… Read more »
Hours after you log off for the day your phone dings. Maybe it’s an email or a message in Slack or Teams. Sure you’ve already clocked off, but what’s the harm in just taking a peak? You check the message: it’s from your boss and it looks serious. Even though you were never required to… Read more »
As Australia’s startup sector matures, is it becoming a more attractive alternative for talented people in terms of career and pay. But do you still need to go down the corporate path first to advance your career and build up a nest egg, in order to have a buffer and Plan B escape ahead of… Read more »
Running a startup in its early stages is exciting, but it is also stressful. The culture is all about getting the business off the ground, and the focus is on growth. Everything else is superfluous, and this includes employee operations because there is simply no time to focus on this. The founders/leaders will often assume… Read more »
This past year forced incredible change on businesses in a short time, with organisations needing to adapt and pivot quickly to keep pace. This forced adaptation accelerated many current trends – some by three to five years, according to a global McKinsey executive study – while simultaneously causing new ones to emerge. In a recent nbn webinar ‘Digital Transformation in a… Read more »
Imagine running on a cement footpath, and then suddenly through dry sand. Just to keep upright, you would have to slow down and change the way you run. In the same way, a walking robot would have to change its gait to handle different surfaces. Generally, we humans and most robots can only change how… Read more »
There are many things we take for granted, simply because they are as they have always been. When we think about innovation, we can broadly say that industries in which consumers have strong opinions innovate faster. For you to have a strong opinion on something, you need to have a base level of understanding to… Read more »
Last year, as everyone dealt with working from home, we launched a new series looking at the joy people find in the WFH experience. And just as it looked like everyone was heading back into the office, Victoria has put plans to ramp up to 75% office capacity because of a hotel quarantine infection on… Read more »
For millions of Australians, it’s been nearly eight months since remote working became a reality for the first time ever. For us at Car Next Door, remote working has been the norm for a year. In March 2020, when lockdown seemed unlikely to go on for more than a few weeks, there were plenty of… Read more »
How the next generation gets a taste of startup life is about to change with Tank Stream Labs and talent acquisition and internship venture Australiance teaming up to launch an internship program for the startup community. The partnership will give startups that are Tank Stream Labs members and alumni access to a ‘pool’ of interns with different… Read more »
It’s not always easy to match employees with what they are good at and what they aspire to do. Boredom, lack of opportunity and career progression are the biggest drivers of employee disengagement and turnover. Solving this problem is Flow of Work Co, a talent opportunity and insights platform that makes it easy to match… Read more »
Every Friday, our new weekly column talks to CEOs, founders and tech leaders about the benefits they’ve discovered from WFH in 2020. This week it’s Rimal Gokani, co-CEO of Melbourne fintech Assembly Payments. Here are the six things that spark joy about Rimal’s home office life – and tune into the Startup Daily show on… Read more »
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