by Phil Morle | Nov 2, 2012 | Startup Profiles, Uncategorized
Just one week after launching on Kickstarter, LIFX, the Melbourne-based company co-founded by Andrew Birt had raised more than $1.3 million to produce an initial production round. That solves some problems, and introduces others. LIFX is a Wi-Fi enabled LED light...
by Phil Morle | Nov 1, 2012 | Startup Profiles, Uncategorized
Catherine Prosser is at home in Narrabundah, Canberra, when we speak; I want to find out more about how StageBitz, the theatre inventory management platform she started with co-founder Mat Lawrence, raised an $890,000 angel investment round from a consortium including...
by Phil Morle | Oct 30, 2012 | Opinion, Uncategorized
There seems to be an increasing number of tech startups creating hardware, in what’s being dubbed by some entrepreneurs and investors as a ‘hardware renaissance’. It’s something we’ve been following with interest — the recent Australian...
by Phil Morle | Oct 30, 2012 | Resources, Uncategorized
A few days ago we came across this post from Rebekah Campbell, Founder of Posse.com. In a nutshell, Campbell explained the only mistake she really regrets is giving away too much equity to people who were there at the start, but didn’t end up pulling their...
by Phil Morle | Oct 29, 2012 | Resources, Uncategorized
On Friday afternoon, I went to a talk by Euan Semple, former Director of Knowledge Management for the BBC and now influential speaker and adviser to companies like Nokia, the World Bank and NATO, on all things social media. Almost every startup I’ve interviewed...
by Phil Morle | Oct 26, 2012 | Grinfographics, Uncategorized
Q: How many angel investors does it take to change a lightbulb? A: They’ll never change it but they’re full of advice on how you should change it. Q: How many VCs does it take to change a lightbulb? A: Getting one interested is nearly impossible but once...
by Phil Morle | Oct 26, 2012 | Startup Profiles, Uncategorized
The founders of Wollongong based startup, Critical Arc, plan on using large organisations like universities or hospitals to drive downloads of their security app. Glenn Farrant and Jahmai Lay spent six months working with potential customers to develop the app,...
by Phil Morle | Oct 26, 2012 | Startup Profiles, Uncategorized
Speak with Long Zheng and Ed Hooper and you realise they’re the kind of tech entrepreneur with hundreds of ideas, and the ability to quickly bring them to life. They’re the kind of startup founder that put us non-techies to shame. Zheng and Hooper are two...
by Phil Morle | Oct 24, 2012 | Startup Profiles, Uncategorized
There seems to be a wave of startups allowing people to customise purchases; Shoes of Prey do it for shoes, Evolvex for furniture and JellyBeanBikes for two-wheeled transport. But providing custom products can be challenging, particularly when it comes to the...
by Phil Morle | Oct 24, 2012 | Events, Uncategorized
More than 400 people gathered on Tuesday to hear pitches from Australia’s best up-and-coming tech companies at Sydney’s Tech23. It’s the Aussie tech event which comes closest to a night of nights, with entrepreneurs, investors and government representatives gathering...
by Phil Morle | Oct 21, 2012 | Startup Science, Uncategorized
I learned a new word in Manila today. Sigurista. If you are sigurista, you need things to go according to plan. An entrepreneur can’t be sigurista. I don’t think we have an equivalent in English so I am adding this one to my lexicon. Thanks to @pia_bernal...
by Phil Morle | Oct 19, 2012 | Startup Profiles, Uncategorized
Andrew Evetts, founder of DVD rental business Oovie, had a problem: how could his small startup scale to a large number of locations? Unlike a streaming video startup, or a postal-based DVD rental business, Oovie had significant hardware investment in the...
