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16 Jan '19
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Is your innovation changing Australia’s future?
From the world's first modular self-fit hearing aid, robots that write their own code, a virtual reality treatment platform for spider phobia, to an artificially intelligent shark detection system using drones - the Australian Information Industry Association’s (AIIA) iAwards program has unearthed outstanding Australian innovation for over 25...
theiAwards
15 Jan '19
Crowd-Sourced Funding
Does your business qualify for crowd-sourced funding?
Do you understand the legal implications associated with CSF?
Overview of the CSF Regime
Crowd-sourced funding (CSF) is an alternative way of raising funds and is especially attractive to innovative companies, start-ups and emerging businesses as it allows large numbers of the...
Allied Legal
15 Jan '19
MELBOURNE’S ‘THE GOOD INCUBATOR’ ANNOUNCES IT’S 2019 COHORT
Five innovative, tech-based startups to receive 12 weeks of intensive incubation to accelerate their impact in the disability sector.
The Good Incubator, a collaboration between Impact Co. & Luna Startup Studio, today announced that five innovative startups are set to join its 2019 cohort.
The Good Incubator...
Jerichocleary
09 Jan '19
Starting an online business: A quick legal checklist
You have a great idea for a product or service, you have your website up and running, and you’re getting ready to go to market online. It's an exciting time and the last thing you want to think about is your company’s and your website’s legal compliance. But it's an important step to take to ensure that disputes over the use of your...
Law Squared
13 Dec '18
Financing Your Start-Up Using Convertible Notes
Need to raise money for your start-up?
Have you considered using Convertible Notes?
Convertible notes, if well structured, can be a simple, flexible and cost-effective way for a start-up to raise funds. Start-ups can offer convertible notes, which are debt instruments that may be converted to equity, to raise capital, instead of...
Allied Legal
13 Dec '18
The maker movement: how hackerspaces, makerspaces, and fab labs are revolutionising the way we make and live
For as long as human beings have been, we have made.
Made tools. Made objects. Made things that keep us alive. Things that are beautiful to us. Things that get us around. Things that help us to express ourselves.
The studio of Valerie Restarick from The Design Files
But never before has the rate of human making been so rapid...
FAB9 makerspace
26 Nov '18
The interwoven past, present and future of fashion and technology - part 1
Dita von Teese in a 3D-printed dress by Studio Bitonti
While you could argue that blending our bodies with technology began the first time an early human sharpened one rock against another, let’s take a slightly more fashion-focused approach to our species’ innovational history and skip ahead a few million years to...
FAB9 makerspace
26 Nov '18
The mother of invention: Australia’s illustrious — and surprising — history of innovation
Image of Bionic Ear from Pintrest
Here’s a little challenge for you: without consulting Google, name three things invented by Australians.
Any luck?
If the answer’s ‘yes’, there’s a good chance the Hills Hoist clothesline was first on your list. Next, you might have managed the plastic banknote. And if you were really...
FAB9 makerspace
26 Nov '18
FAB9: The intersection of design & technology at The Dream Factory
A video still of a CNC router from the FAB9 website.
Something exciting is happening on the ground floor of The Dream Factory.
There’s been a shroud of secrecy around the Footscray site for months, though if you’ve passed by recently, you may have caught a glimpse of some serious works underway.
Excavators clawing....
FAB9 makerspace
26 Nov '18