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Queensland healthtech Surgical Performance helps surgeons track their work and improvements
Surgical Performance allows surgeons to input data around their surgeries and patient outcomes to track and benchmark their work.
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Queensland startup MiSale is a self-service platform helping users sell their own property
Cofounded in Queensland by Ewen Malcolm and Grant Shankster, the MiSale platform allows sellers to be their own real estate agent.
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Gold Coast startup HiSmile leveraged social media to foster a unique brand identity in the oral hygiene space
HiSmile leveraged Facebook and social influencers to popularise its flagship teeth whitening product, which uses gels and LED lighting to whiten teeth.
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Rural Business Collective facilitates collaboration and mentorship for regional businesses
The Rural Business Collective is an online community offering startups and small businesses mentorship opportunities, collaboration and advice.
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Rural Business Collective facilitates collaboration and mentorship for regional businesses
Within Australia’s major cities, the startup scene is becoming increasingly more connected and collaborative. Taking another step forward this direction, this week saw the NSW Government announced the launch of a $35 million startup hub within Sydney’s CBD. Regional Australia, however, faces some difficulties in facilitating strong connectivity between businesses, namely due to the natural… Read more »
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Sunshine Coast ecommerce startup Knobby is a monthly underwear subscription service
The motivation to bring Knobby to life came in 2011, when founder Rob Rand was living in a remote country town in Far North Queensland boasting just 200 residents.
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Medical company Icon Group launches AI assistant to help oncologists treat cancer patients
Icon Group has announced a partnership with IBM Watson Health, that will see the AI used to help support clinical decision making for cancer patients.
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Roma agency Compass West helps small businesses solve their back-end problems
“I have a very good eye for detail on ways to improve things without wasting time or money, so I turned it into a business.”
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Roma agency Compass West helps small businesses solve their back-end problems
“I’m a problem solver at heart, and sometimes that makes you a less than desirable employee.” She never got fired, Carmen Roberts clarified with a laugh, but acknowledging that fact led to the decision not to go back to working for someone else after having her youngest child. Instead, she looked at what she was… Read more »
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Audacious Digital is helping to develop Toowoomba’s SMB landscape by getting businesses online
Digital development and design agency Audacious Digital came out of a Global Startup Battle weekend run at Toowoomba coworking space Canvas in 2015.
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Audacious Digital is helping to develop Toowoomba’s SMB landscape by getting businesses online
Growing up, Julie Boulton dreamed of being a brain surgeon, because she was fascinated by the way humans work. A couple of years into her medical degree, however, she was diagnosed with a brain disorder; having developed tremors, a career as a surgeon was suddenly off the table. “One day I was sitting on the… Read more »
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Brisbane startup Writally helps SMBs with their content marketing through blog post ‘recipes’
Writally simply asks wannabe bloggers what kind of post they are looking to write and then delivers them a step by step recipe to help them actually write it.
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SLIKR lets customers book their spot in a queue for a barber appointment
SLIKR is a booking app targeted at men which allows users to enter an online queue for hair appointments, rather than booking an inflexible, set time.
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Defiant Development’s Kim Allom on the state of Australia’s gaming industry
Speaking at Myriad, Allom shed light on how lack of government support and funding opportunities are restricting the emergence of new startups in the space.
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QUT Creative Enterprise Australia launches dedicated creative industries accelerator
The new Collider program will give 10 early stage creative tech startups $20,000 in seed funding in exchange for four percent equity.
