When practising lean in a corporate environment your first customer is your CEO. Well that was one of the take-aways from last week’s Lean Startup Conference, a point not so much articulated on stage as it was in the hallways and breakout rooms of the Masonic Centre...

People's Choice winner Samuel Killin, describes his experience at last month's Sydney Firehose competition.  Somewhere along the line I realised that corporates don't do anything by coincidence. As such, I was honestly skeptical when I heard about Firehose. It felt...

In this guest post, startup visual designer Jordan Gillman of Jordesign calls for an end to corporate exploitation of the startup community. Is he right to be concerned? Do we need a Charter of Australian Hackathon Organisers maybe? Last week I saw the announcement...

This economy is built on art, the art that is created by emotional labour, by bringing risk and joy and fear and love to the table. Emotional labour scales in that a little more emotional labour is worth a lot. Seth Godin / The Icarus Deception We are half way through...

“Measure twice, cut once” is an attractive rule to live by if you are a multi-billion dollar company. There is a lot to lose. The problem with doing this in a startup is that we build something that no one wants in our minds, research papers and specification...