by Phil Morle | Sep 27, 2012 | Pollenizer News, Uncategorized
Lots of happenings in the hive this month. We’re near the end of September, with the new term just around the the corner. See what’s happening in our Buzz Newsletter. If you haven’t yet subscribed, hit the subscribe button to get regular...
by Phil Morle | Sep 27, 2012 | Startup Science, Uncategorized
After reading this great blog post by Jason Cohen on Stealth Mode (thanks Pierre) I thought I’d share some other great UnStrategies for building startups. Sarcasm Filter On Everyone is your customer. The bigger your market, the bigger your business. Make...
by Phil Morle | Sep 27, 2012 | Resources, Startup Profiles, Uncategorized
Madeline Veenstra plans to leave hometown Brisbane for Silicon Valley so that she can pursue Popbasic, her opt-in micro-collection fashion service where you can have a package delivered every month, featuring the latest fashion items. It follows the success of her...
by Phil Morle | Sep 26, 2012 | Resources, Startup Profiles, Uncategorized
Having learnt Cantonese for most of his life, Matthew Ho, co-founder of nativetongue, knows just how difficult learning a language can be, and it’s this experience that led him to develop an interactive app to teach basic language skills. Ho says the idea had...
by Phil Morle | Sep 25, 2012 | Startup Profiles, Uncategorized
When Ben Levi questioned why he was paying $150 a month for a real estate agent to manage his rental property, he decided to launch RentingSmart; a web platform that allows property owners to manage their own rentals. Two years later, Levi has now launched the site in...
by Phil Morle | Sep 25, 2012 | Resources, Startup Profiles, Uncategorized
Victor Jiang wants to see “reverse offshoring” become a trend, with Australian companies offering their professional knowledge and skills to Asia, rather than Australia’s mining exports dominating key trade relationships with countries like China. He recently lodged a...
by Phil Morle | Sep 25, 2012 | Opinion, Uncategorized
In this post, Maria Sipka, CEO of Aussie startup Linqia, shares some invaluable lessons from her experience immediately after announcing a successful USD3.5M investment round in the US. Maria’s generously agreed to let us run this, adapted from her original post...
by Phil Morle | Sep 25, 2012 | Grinfographics, Uncategorized
October 2012: Australia’s tech startup industry copes with the burden of upgrading essential communications technology. Got a Grinfographic you’d like to share with the FLT community? Send it in, tweet it, or just leave a comment with your idea and...
by Phil Morle | Sep 25, 2012 | Opinion, Uncategorized
Welcome to From Little Things (FLT), an industry news source and an ongoing series of events, initially covering Australia and Singapore and in time, the rest of the Asia Pacific region. There are already tech startup publications and events out there, so do we really...
by Phil Morle | Sep 24, 2012 | Resources, Startup Profiles, Uncategorized
Get posted on Kickstarter; raise a few thousand dollars; and you’re sorted, right? Rob Ward, co-founder of Annex products, isn’t so sure. And he’s someone who should know: his company successfully raised double what it needed in July 2011; to launch the Opena,...
by Phil Morle | Sep 24, 2012 | Startup Profiles, Uncategorized
Australian company Peeractive has just been accepted into the DreamIt Ventures accelerator in the United States; the first time an Australian company has been accepted into the accelerator; rated number three in the US...
by Phil Morle | Sep 21, 2012 | Startup Profiles, Uncategorized
Priyanka Rao has received plenty of coverage for her customisable furniture solution, Evolvex; getting write-ups in publications as diverse as The Thousands, Sydney Morning Herald, and even WIRED. A background in marketing and PR has helped get the pitch right, but...
