As I scan the headlines, I’m struck by a familiar refrain: large employers demanding a mass return to the office, cutting back hybrid flexibility, and reasserting FaceTime as a key indicator of productivity. Yet, as someone leading a fully-remote, globally-distributed team, I believe many are overlooking what remote work can truly unlock when done right.… Read more »
Hilton Misso’s new book, How to Manifest Success, provides 50 proven lessons for turning ambition into achievement. In this exclusive extract below, he looks at why the multiples matter in business. People often ask how and why we were able to sell Trilby Misso Lawyers for such a high price. There were many reasons, but… Read more »
Fintech Zeller is taking its business banking platform to the UK in its first international expansion. The fast-growing Melbourne unicorn has appointed former ByteDance executive Lars Weber as UK country manager and is looking to put 40 pairs of boots on the ground there over the next three years, with team members already recruited from… Read more »
One piece of business advice I would give my younger self is to “learn how to ask the right questions”. True mentorship is not about telling business owners what to do but asking pointed questions that help them think differently. So, rather than showering CEOs with advice, ask them probing questions instead. Questions that help… Read more »
When I was an agtech founder, I made the mistake of thinking distribution was everything. I’d rack up thousands of miles driving from region to region, just to get our product in one more ag retail outlet. Each new dealer felt like a victory—proof that we were building something real, something that would make it… Read more »
So you closed your Series A. Congrats. But if the champagne’s gone flat and growth’s not following the graph you pitched, welcome to the plateau. The Series A lull is where promising startups go to stall. And if you don’t rewire your mindset, ops, and culture, it’s where momentum quietly dies. Zing Coach’s been there:… Read more »
Mother-daughter duo Tandadzo (Tando) Matanda and Dr Margaret Matanda will step on stage founder at SXSW Sydney this Tuesday as the founders of fintech platform Musa. Musa is the world’s first intelligent venture assessment platform, tackling the funding process for startups and small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Musa Ventures equips founders with the digital tools… 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 »
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 »
Australia’s startup industry is entitled to ask itself what are the government’s expectations when it comes to technology? While some of the government’s moves around Big Tech have been encouraging, proposed changes to mergers and acquisitions requirements will likely have a chilling effect on dealmaking and investment in our local startup industry. What’s happened? Last… Read more »
The New York-based cofounder of New Zealand subletting startup Kiki, Toby Thomas-Smith, is blunt in his own performance assessment. “When we launched Kiki.nyc last year I fucked up,” he’s written on LinkedIn, after the business shuttered its New York launch after 3 months, only to revive it late last month amid controversy over plans to… Read more »
For better or for worse, some small things can make you look like a beginner when pitching to VCs. During my time at Square Peg as a senior associate, I’ve seen plenty of things founders and startups do well, but also don’t, during their pitches. So here are my top five things to avoid –… Read more »
‘Reformed’ founder turned academic, Chris Edwards, analyses the most prevalent startup failure factor. In today’s competitive marketplace, it’s more important than ever to put customers first. But how do you find the time to do that when you’re running a startup or small business, where seemingly everyone and everything is vying for your time and… Read more »
By nature, startups are used to being the disruptors; the ‘fast movers’ that challenge the inertia of bigger organisations, finding ways to embed themselves and helping others to innovate, adapt and progress faster. But what happens when even faster tech threatens to disrupt even the disruptors? Leaders today face a velocity of change that exceeds… Read more »
Plenty of entrepreneurs have grand plans for the launch of their business, but too few think about an exit strategy before they begin. This is a fatal mistake. With 90% of startups doomed to failure, founders can’t afford to overlook this most important element to their business’ long-term viability. An exit strategy will not only… Read more »
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