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Free Workspaces for Purpose-Driven Businesses

Accelerators
Hub Australia provides premium carbon neutral certified flexible workspaces, with 3 locations in Melbourne. We help businesses and teams love where they work, and have a commitment to empowering purpose-driven ventures and not-for-profits.  Our Flexi Impact Program is now on, offering a number of complimentary memberships to...
hubaustralia 25 Nov '20

Airwallex launches Borderless Employee Cards, built for startups to scaleups

Scaling
It shouldn’t be difficult to make purchasing decisions fast without losing visibility and control for your team. A shared corporate card just doesn’t cut it for fast-growing startups. Airwallex’s virtual employee cards are reinventing how startups manage team spend and global expenses in a way that scales. Zero setup or ongoing fees. Zero...
David Tan - Airwallex 25 Nov '20

Treasury Wine Estates and YBF Ventures present the Innovation Showcase 2020

Pitching
Treasury Wine Estates (TWE), in partnership with YBF Ventures, present the inaugural Innovation Showcase of 2020, focused on solutions that step change leadership in sustainability at TWE. Treasury Wine Estates is one of the world’s largest wine companies. Through world-class winemaking and brand marketing, TWE’s business is focused on...
YBF Ventures 23 Nov '20

Moved your business online during COVID-19? Remember these domain name tips

Tech
COVID-19 has accelerated the move to online shopping, driving many brick-and-mortar stores online in the process. Business owners have quickly transformed their business models to take advantage of the e-commerce boom. For many, this is the first time their business has operated online. Data from .au Domain Administration (auDA) shows that in...
auda 23 Nov '20

Australian Startup Ecosystem Funding Analysis — For Founders!!!

Investment
I spent the last 5 weeks making a report on the Australian early-stage startup funding market just for founders. My aim was to include as much actionable information to help founders inform their capital raises and this is some of what I found: Seed/0 to 3 year old company funding is getting harder to obtain with Seed deal count down 29%...
warwickd916@live.com 23 Nov '20

Ever wanted an accountability partner to keep you motivated and on-track with your weekly startup goals? I've got the perfect solution for you.

Founder Stories
SOLUTION - A meetup group called: Start-Up Founder's Goal-Setting & Accountability Partnership PURPOSE - Welcome all Pre-Launch and Pre-Scale Start-up business Founders and Co-Founders. The purpose of this group is to keep us motivated and on-track to achieving our weekly and monthly business goals leading up to our Launch Date or Scale-up...
EPK 23 Nov '20

Chasing a Blue Ocean: the Melbourne startup changing team collaboration forever

Tech
Those with a keen interest in marketing theory might have heard of the 'Blue Ocean Strategy'. The concept is straightforward: avoid competing in a hotly contested market by opening up a new market. In other words, do something different, generate new demand and render the competition irrelevant. For a startup, it is the ideal scenario. A 'Blue...
7-YM 15 Nov '20

Honeywell and YBF launch the PropTech Showcase

Pitching
Honeywell, a global leader in connected buildings, and YBF, Australia's leading teach and innovation hub, are seeking to hear from Australian innovators to enable safer, healthier environments. The world as we know it has changed drastically. Change also creates a need for innovative solutions to help us adjust to, as well as define the ‘new...
YBF Ventures 15 Nov '20

Gaining financial flexibility

Office Hours
Many corporates have managed the initial months of the pandemic crisis and are now settling into a period I call “limbo land”. It is a peculiar period of fluctuating activity.  Nations are either entering or exiting various forms of lockdowns.  This cycle will probably continue until a vaccine has been successfully...
CornellTsiang 02 Nov '20