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Did this Australian startup just turn down a $7 million acquisition offer?
The founders of Tagroom.com, Niro James, Patrick Varden (Sydney) and Yasmin Walter (Perth) could be worth a couple of million each right now.
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muru-D startups receive investment from SYD Ventures
Farmbot, Pixc and Open Learning have successfully obtained second-round funding from SYD Ventures – a company that describes itself as a startup (not a VC fund) investing in other early stage startups.
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Alex Turnbull partaking in the launch of a hedge fund startup in Singapore?
Alex Turnbull, son of Federal Minister for Communications Malcolm Turnbull, may be setting an example of how Australians can work with their Asian counterparts. The Sydney Morning Herald reported today that Alex Turnbull is planning to launch a Singapore-based hedge fund, Keshik Capital, which will be “focused on Asia with the flexibility to invest globally”.
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Start Up Australia: Right Mission, Wrong Name?
Although startups and small businesses have different interests and needs, at this point, startup is being squeezed into the broader category of small business or is used interchangeably with small business.
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Stripe vs. Braintree: Who will win over the Aussie startup community?
Global payments platform Stripe has today announced its launch into the Australian market, going head-to-head against competitor Braintree, which established itself in Australia in November 2012 and opened up a Sydney office in June 2013. While Braintree has experienced enormous success in the country, the arrival of Stripe may pose a threat – especially when it comes to winning over the startup community.
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Breaking: Sydney startup Netcomber.com acquired by Profound Networks
Startup Daily has just confirmed that Netcomber.com has just been acquired by Profound Networks.
Netcomber.com was founded by Sydney based Luke Metcalfe, who owns Rapid Intelligence and also publishes NationMaster.com in December 2012 and Andre Weyher, who was part of Matt Cutts’ famous Search Quality team at Google later joined to head up PR and Marketing and drive the business forward.
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Acquisition of Newsle shows a thirst for new media tech. Could Sydney based Newsworthy.io be next?
What I like about Granfar, and why I think that himself and cofounder Bronwyn Leong are going to execute in the Media Tech space brilliantly is based on the fact they understand that what they are trying to do is a very clear departure from what most people understand to be social sharing.
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TalkLife is perhaps one of the most important mobile products right now
TalkLife is perhaps one of the most important mobile innovations for 2014.
The South Australian youth mental health start up, is a global social network that enables young people to open up about taboo issues including depression, self-harm and even suicide, has grown to 8,000 users per day across 125 countries in the last two years.
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99dresses founder Nikki Durkin announces closure after 4 years
Today Australian entrepreneur Nikki Durkin announced that she was shutting down the venture she had been working on for the last 4 years 99dresses.
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New hyperlocal app Swoop helping SMBs boost foot traffic
Launched earlier this month, Swoop offers small business operators the opportunity to boost foot traffic, sales and profit by targeting customers through GPS-linked app alerts that direct them to special deals and discounts as soon as they are within close proximity to a particular store.
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Are you a startup vampire or a werewolf?
The question I get asked the most, other than “Are you dancing?” is “How can I get a job in startup?” Many people ask me how I got started; they want my “foot-in-the-door” origin story. Unfortunately, there is no fairy tale, boy-meets-girl, tie-it-up-with-a-bow story behind it.
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Jo Burston: ‘Rare Birds is not just a business, it’s a global movement’
Today, Burston is preparing to facilitate a movement – under the moniker Rare Birds.
The company, which will launch officially later in the year, states its own purpose “to provide every woman globally with the choice to be an entrepreneur.”
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How running a startup is like the X-Men
There are days when we look at the work load that we have to get through and feel like throwing our hands in the air and yelling, “aaargh, but I’m only human.”
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New social network for backpackers Backpackr gets investors drooling
A new social network, Backpackr, is changing the scene and rapidly gaining traction – with 1,000 users gained in its first five days alone, and several investment proposals.
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‘If you can’t see it, you can’t be it’: Female founders crushing stereotypes
Women’s participation and success in male-dominant industries is, at best, treated as an anomaly, and at worst, considered a farce.
Women in business’, ’women in tech’ and ‘women in politics’ have been the subject of debate for decades, with no end in sight.
And many men are tired of this conversation.
