Based on research with startup founders, Dan Bradley and Gareth Joe put forward a new approach to start up culture that prioritises health and wellbeing and could benefit VCs too. In the startup world, there has long been the assumption that sacrificing your health is the only route to success. It’s all about the hustle… Read more »
This week, after building the Momentum ESR platform for nearly 18 years, we’ve been acquired by Compass Education. I’ve been asked several times why I did this now. The simple answer is: we have found a shared vision in Compass education to provide a comprehensive school administration solution for NSW Schools into the future. We… Read more »
Anthony Albanese will promise a Labor government would deliver a discount to cut the cost of electric cars and install community batteries, in modest initiatives costing $400 million over several years. The announcement, to be made Wednesday, comes as Labor debates its platform at a “virtual” national conference involving some 400 participants. At present only… Read more »
In all my years building and operating startups, the most important lesson I’ve learned is this… Those that build the right product and broadly market it most effectively, win. This might seem obvious to some. But in my experience, too many founders spend too little time building and too much time hesitating, philosophising, pontificating, and/or… Read more »
It seems audacious to compare ourselves to Amazon – one of the biggest ecommerce retailers on the planet – but let me explain. Amazon drastically disrupted the normal supply chain model by bypassing retailers. They then further disrupted the supply chain by acquiring suppliers, removing the need for wholesalers. Amazon has created a warehouse-to-consumer direct… Read more »
If you’re not on a mission to solve a specific problem, how do you choose the best customer problem for your startup to work on solving? Solve customer problems that arise often, every day We have to help our customers develop new habits — to use our product/service to solve that problem, rather than their… Read more »
Welcome to our weekly column on the important things the startup to see and do for the ANZ startup community, brought to you by the director of the Spark Festival, Maxine Sherrin. 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 »
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 »
New South Wales Police Commissioner Mick Fuller suggested this week that technology should be part of the solution to growing concerns around sexual assault. He encouraged serious discussion about using a digital app to record positive sexual consent. In our research, we have studied a wide range of mobile applications and artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots… Read more »
From psychological thrillers to true crime stories, people who depart from social norms can be deeply fascinating. Psychopaths most of all. Working with or for a psychopath, however, is less fun. The research generally agrees about 1% of the population is psychopathic. This means they fail to develop the normal range of emotions, lack empathy… Read more »
The Australian Space Forum to be held in South Australia this month will focus on bringing further investment and collaboration opportunities to the growing Australian space industry. The 11th Australian Space Forum will be held on 31 March 2021, in Adelaide, South Australia and will feature the new head of the Australian Space Agency, Enrico… Read more »
On March 2, 2021, Microsoft published information about four critical vulnerabilities in its widely used Exchange email server software that are being actively exploited. It also released security updates for all versions of Exchange back to 2010. Microsoft has told cybersecurity expert Brian Krebs it was notified of the vulnerabilities in “early January”. The Australian… Read more »
A number of technologies and tools got a chance to prove themselves for the first time in the context of COVID-19. Three researchers working in gene-based vaccines, wearable diagnostics and drug discovery explain how their work rose to the challenge of the pandemic, and their hopes that each technology is now poised to continue making… Read more »
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