If you’re a founder who sends monthly or quarterly investor updates, I have some uncomfortable news. They probably aren’t being read in depth, and your investors don’t care deeply about them. I don’t mean they’re skimming them while checking email. I mean they’re genuinely not retaining anything of value from the carefully curated bullet points… Read more »
The discourse is awash with advice for founders, from lifestyle (getting up at 4am/cold plunging/meditating/one meal a day) to the musts of making an enterprise viable (study your customers; focus on problems, not solutions; build a great team; mission beats ego). In my experience, having been a founder, an early leader at Canva, and a… Read more »
The second annual Australian Startup to Scaleup Summit (S2S Summit), presented by Tank Stream Labs, will be held at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art on Thursday, September 26. The day-long S2S Summit has a bigger, more ambitious program, designed to empower entrepreneurs, innovators, and industry leaders. Tank Stream Labs CEO Bradley Delamare said S2S 2024… Read more »
As a startup founder, I know first hand the enormous personal resilience it takes to overcome adversity, setbacks and challenges. During the GFC in Ireland I lost it all. With my young family, I decided to take a courageous leap of faith and relocate to Australia with only $5,000 in my pocket in search of… Read more »
Entrepreneurship is pretty glamorous for those who haven’t done it. The shiny awards. “30 under 30”, the media write ups of the money raised, the new markets you’ve entered, the hard won partnerships you’ve secured. Jetting around the country and/or world for conferences, meetings, posting photos from airport lounges. Outsiders constantly telling you ‘Wow, you’re… Read more »
For this From The Frontline, which looks at how startups are dealing with the coronavirus era, we’ve talked to Kate Cornick, CEO of Victoria’s startup agency, LaunchVic, and four startup founders about their success despite the challenges the face. The quartet are: Matthew Boyd, founder and CEO of Vollie, on online marketplace that connects… Read more »
Top legal experts share the 8 reasons startup founders lose out even when they build a good company. We meet a lot of excellent founders at Zambesi. They come to us to spend time with leaders from companies like Canva, Facebook, Showpo, TEDxSydney and Koala to learn how to grow their startups, pitch their ideas,… Read more »
Mums became big news this week, with Labor leader Bill Shorten talking about how his mother was an inspiration to him and shaped his political views. Politicians aren’t the only ones with inspiring mums. Becoming an entrepreneur is often the result of hard work, sacrifice, love and more from parents who’ve raised their child with… Read more »
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