Shared Learnings
A NEW DOCTRINE: A BIG CO VS START UP
INSIDE THE INCUBATOR
Following a two day microhack, we partnered with Horizon Power to incubate four entrepreneurs to build disrupt the energy industry. We spoke to Grant Young, who was one of the attendees chosen to come into incubation at Pollenizer. His company Nexergy, co-founded with...
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MY BIG IDEA PARTNERS WITH POLLENIZER’S STARTUP SCIENCE®
We are proud to announce our partnership with the national My Big Idea project! A national initiative aiming to shape Australia’s tomorrow, My Big Idea is asking Australians to submit ideas to improve life in Australia, and vote on the ones that they feel passionate...
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THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING: INTRODUCING XO
If we are to solve the unprecedented range and scale of global challenges confronting us, we need to get cutting edge “Deep Tech” innovation out of the lab and into the world faster. Organisations big and small will have to work together in complementary ways to...
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TASMANIA’S STARTUP SCENE
If you’re thinking about moving to Tasmania, or stopping down south for a working holiday, then this guide should give you a great head start on figuring out who’s who in the community and where the local focal points of startup activity are. The startup ecosystem in...
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ME, THE ENERGY COMPANY
I am an energy company. At least I will be soon. How we generate and flow energy is changing, driven by technology changes that are happening so fast, it is hard to see them happening around us. One day soon we will wake up and find it hard to imagine coal power...
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NOT ALL PIVOTS ARE EQUAL
This is a guest post by Alistair Croll, global bestselling author of Lean Analytics from the Lean Startup book series. The word “pivot” is synonymous with the Lean Startup movement. But since Eric Ries first coined the term to refer to making iterative course...
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HOW TO FIND AN AUDIENCE WITH BIG DATA
Now that we all know what Big Data is, how can we use some of that data which is being generated by GAFA. Who is #GAFA you ask….? It’s 4 of the major Big Data players: Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon. While all of these firms have created corporate fortunes through...
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BIG DATA MADE SIMPLE
There two things we can all agree on when it comes to big data. 1. Startups think they’ll make a fortune accumulating it 2. Big companies think they need to be using it. Both of these might be true, but there is one thing I know to be true for sure: There is a lot of...
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FOCUS, COMPLEXITY AND STARTUPS
Then vs Now Whenever we have a look at a successful business, it’s easy to admire how all the moving parts, features and services seem to work in harmony to make a great company. Food companies like Nestle have an incredible set of related product formats. Their giant...
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HOW TO SAVE YOUR COMPANY IN 2 HOURS
The Work Week Reality I remember the days when I was doing the hard yards in a big company. Days were long, and the pressure high. I knew that continuous learning was a key factor to climbing that corporate ladder, and to being someone who could create value in the...
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WHEN DISRUPTION STARES YOU IN THE FACE
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change." There is some debate over whether it was Charles Darwin who said it or not, but the sentiment still stands. I had...
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