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Tuty is tackling the tutoring market through online lessons and “Tuty Points”
Tuty is an online tutoring marketplace offering online lessons for university students and “Tuty Points”, a loyalty program helping students save.
Advice
Venture capital fund Galileo Ventures is looking to raise $20 million to support student startups
Galileo Ventures, is looking to raise $20 million to support startups founded by students at Australian and New Zealand universities.
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Social ticketing startup Qnect blackmailed following customer data breach
Qnect Technologies has had its customer data stolen, with the hackers threatening to publish the information online unless the business paid out bitcoins.
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Qnect is a social ticketing platform for student events at universities
Targeting university societies, Qnect allows users to browse through events where the ‘attending’ list only reveals those who have paid for a ticket.
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University of Queensland opens UQ Idea Hub to support student innovation
The University of Queensland has this week opened its Idea Hub, a coworking space designed to help entrepreneurial students grow their early-stage ideas.
Advice
Paddl is a job search platform matching students and graduates to roles based on their course of study
Paddl is an online job search platform that connects its users directly to relevant job postings based on their course of study.
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Dropbox’s Campus Cup competition for uni students is a clever user acquisition strategy
Over the years, one thing that’s become increasingly clear about Dropbox is that it plays the long game when it comes user acquisition. It doesn’t aim to convert users to paying customers overnight or over months, but over years.
