by Phil Morle | Mar 9, 2013 | Startmate 2013, Uncategorized
Startmate’s Amir Nissen takes a seat across from me at the ATP cafe, wearing his customary board shorts and t-shirt. He’s ordered a green tea with honey, and stirs as we speak. Nissen has been spending a lot of time in the offices lately, acutely aware of...
by Phil Morle | Feb 12, 2013 | Opinion, Uncategorized
Pollenizer’s Mick Liubinskas is agitating for change to the way the Australian Tax Office treats ESOPs (Employee Share Option Plans). Deloitte and Norton Rose are on the case, and it’s one of the issues you’ve told us you’d like to see worked...
by Phil Morle | Feb 8, 2013 | Startup Profiles, Uncategorized
From Little Things caught up with oDesk CEO Gary Swart while he was in Sydney this week, to talk about the company’s plans for the Australian market, the future of work, and some of the lessons he’s learnt building the world’s largest online...
by Phil Morle | Feb 6, 2013 | Australia, Startmate 2013, Uncategorized
Did you apply for Startmate and miss out? Perhaps you want to give a startup a go but are not quite sure how to make the move. Australian startup accelerator Startmate is calling for applications from developers and designers to take part in its Trump Cards program....
by Phil Morle | Jan 22, 2013 | Startmate 2013, Uncategorized
FLT is covering the 2013 Startmate accelerator program, which aims to help early-stage companies become enduring internet companies. Here, we introduce the team building Tutor on Demand. Tutor on Demand founders Ben Sze, Duncan Anderson and Jeremy Cox met while...
by Phil Morle | Jan 21, 2013 | Startmate 2013, Uncategorized
FLT is covering the 2013 Startmate accelerator program, which aims to help early-stage companies become enduring internet companies. Here, we introduce Adrian Dean and Ludek Dolejsky of Shiftr. It’s the end of the first week for the eight companies selected as...
by Phil Morle | Jan 15, 2013 | Startmate 2013, Uncategorized
FLT will be covering the 2013 Startmate accelerator program, which aims to help early-stage companies become enduring internet companies. Here, we introduce Michael Dijkstra and Kevin Nguyen of Storyberg. Sydney-siders Michael Dijkstra and Kevin Nguyen are no...
by Phil Morle | Dec 21, 2012 | Startup Profiles, Uncategorized
It’s a steaming hot Sydney morning as Stephen Lead and Danny Savic, the co-founders of Full Extent sit down to chat on a rooftop balcony in Darlinghurst, Sydney, above the art gallery-cum-office where they work. The Darlinghurst office is owned by the founders...
by Phil Morle | Dec 14, 2012 | Opinion, Uncategorized
One of our goals in publishing FLT is to encourage founders to contribute — agree, disagree, expand on topics, share stories and tell us what we could be doing better to help foster the local tech startup community. It’s still early days, so there hasn’t...
by Phil Morle | Dec 7, 2012 | Startup Profiles, Uncategorized
The not-for-profit global network for Australians overseas, Advance, is calling for applications for its 2013 Innovation program. The Innovation program provides 25 Australian startup companies the opportunity to refine their business model and pitch, through...
by Phil Morle | Dec 7, 2012 | Startup Profiles, Uncategorized
Technology startup accelerator Startmate this week announced the eight teams to have earned a coveted spot in its 2013 program. Each of these companies will receive a $50,000 investment, as well as intensive mentoring and coaching from a who’s who line-up of...
by Phil Morle | Dec 6, 2012 | Startmate 2013, Uncategorized
An app to help you sell your ‘stuff’ to friends, a new way to swap shifts with other rostered staff, and a social network allowing parents to check on their kids at preschool, are some of companies which have been accepted into the 2013 Startmate...
