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 11, 2013 | Opinion, Uncategorized
In the early 20th century American writer Ernest Hemingway made a bet with a friend who told him he couldn’t write a story in under ten words. It’s impossible, they said. Not one to give in, Hemingway came back with this one-line tale: For sale: baby...
by Phil Morle | Feb 9, 2013 | Opinion, Uncategorized
Enter Sydney’s Fishburners co-working space from peak-hour Harris Street any night of the week, and it seems there’s another networking event or startup talk. Head to ATP, Pollenizer, BlueChilli, or a handful of Sydney’s pubs and you’ll find...
by Phil Morle | Feb 7, 2013 | Opinion, Startup Profiles, Uncategorized
Last week FLT asked you for your 2013 election priorities, and the verdict is clear — taxation reform, cultural change and crowdfunding were all top priorities. Here’s the lowdown on the issues you raised. ESOP reform Almost everyone who responded to our survey...
by Phil Morle | Feb 7, 2013 | Co-Founder, Opinion, Uncategorized
The rarest commodity in the startup industry is not capital, or customers, or revenue, it’s technical co-founders, or CTOs (Chief Technical Officers). This is largely because the kind of software engineer likely to make a great co-founder and CTO aren’t...
by Phil Morle | Feb 1, 2013 | News, Opinion, Uncategorized
Earlier this week, we put out a call on Twitter for the issues you’d like to see on the agenda leading up to the federal election, which Prime Minister Julia Gillard has set for Saturday 14 September. We got a bunch of interesting ideas — funding for incubators...
by Phil Morle | Jan 30, 2013 | Opinion, Uncategorized
We get a lot of press releases at FLT; most of which I’m happy to receive, even though they very rarely result in a story. It’s just hard-working media relations people trying to do their job. I can’t blame them for not having any relevant news. And...
by Phil Morle | Jan 11, 2013 | Opinion, Resources, Uncategorized
The Federal Government has announced it is developing a Digital Economy White Paper to help shape policy to ensure Australia is well-placed to benefit from increasing “digital engagement” and “address the challenges in becoming a leading digital...
by Phil Morle | Dec 21, 2012 | Opinion, Uncategorized
Here at FLT, we’ve spent the past few months establishing a presence as a new type of startup publication. We’re not interested in startup hype and hullaballoo — our goal is to cover Australian startups in a way that helps our founders, investors,...
by Phil Morle | Dec 20, 2012 | Opinion, Resources, Uncategorized
A review into venture capital and entrepreneurship was expected to provide an update on the future of the Innovation Investment Fund (IIF), and the Federal Government’s policies related to the taxation and support of early-stage companies. However, months later,...
by Phil Morle | Dec 18, 2012 | Opinion, Uncategorized
From Little Things has been up-and-running for three months now, and we’ve noticed a trend — there’s something that makes successful startup founders different from the rest. Successful startup founders aren’t afraid to talk about their business....
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...
