Stories – Page 9 – Startup Victoria

What I learned from Hannah Vasicek (Founder at Francesca) and Tobi Skovron (Founder at CreativeCubes.Co)

https://youtu.be/jODVc6zvmxM "If you have conviction, which is a huge ingredient to starting a business, you can convince your customers that you're passionate and that you believe in your business, you can convince your employees that you believe in this end-goal, and you can convince any of the haters, and also your family." - Hannah...

kym 10 Oct '18

What I learned from Andrew Hardwick (Founder at Hard Edge) and Joe Woodham (Founder at Torii Recruitment)

Founder Stories

https://youtu.be/FaOwBDLOwjc "I thought I knew something about business, and [then] went out and [learned that I] didn't really know anything. [I] had no experience really. If you're not exposing yourself to outside influences then you're not growing, and you're not learning." - Andrew Hardwick https://youtu.be/pHTVDL094pI "There...

kym 03 Oct '18

What I learned from Emma Welsh (Co-Founder at Emma & Toms) and Bill McCorkell (Founder at Archiblox)

Founder Stories

https://youtu.be/afCOwtJA_sw "Business is a lot about problem solving. Still now, I feel like most of my time is spent problem solving and working out solutions." - Emma Welsh "For someone thinking about going into their own business, it's good to be comfortable with change. Change is always going to happen. Things are never going to...

kym 26 Sep '18

5 ways to woo an investor

Fundraising Stories

Let’s face it: if you’re looking to scale your business, you’re probably going to end up looking to raise capital through some sort of equity investment. While demand for capital is quite high, here are five ways to woo an investor and increase your chances of raising that capital – the oxygen that will allow your businesses to grow...

MYOB 28 Mar '18

3 ways to tailor your offering to win government grants

Education, Fundraising Stories

Applying for a competitive government grant is, well, competitive, but there are ways to maximise your chance of success. Every week, I receive emails from SME owners and startup founders asking if I know of any government grants that they should be applying for. Although the answer is often an enthusiastic ‘yes!’, I do warn that a...

MYOB 09 Mar '18

3 Ways for Small Business to Spend Less on Content Marketing

Education

Words string our thoughts and enable us to propel them to action. There's a lot of noise out there when it comes to content marketing and not everything that is heard on the street or yelled from the rooftops is true. Content marketing is important but spending too much of your marketing budget on it, isn't. Big companies with big...

Connect Labs 08 Mar '18

The People Side of Scaling Your Startup

Scaling

Once you have achieved product – market fit, which means, you have a product people want to buy, in a growing market and you can attract repeatable sales, it’s time to scale and enter the rapid-growth phase. When scaling your startup, one of the most important tasks as founder or CEO is getting the people side of your business...

IntelligenceBank 01 Feb '18

Looking to equity crowdfund in Australia?

Education, Fundraising Stories, Legal

This blog is a collaboration with Anna from PledgeMe. Equity crowdfunding has been happening around the globe for the past few years. Over $2.5 billion was raised in 2015 through equity crowdfunding, from the UK (arguably the grandparent of equity crowdfunding) through to PledgeMe’s home country, New Zealand, where equity...

Law Squared 05 Jan '18

Victoria's startup ecosystem is flourishing

Uncategorized

The recently established LaunchVic, the Victoria government’s $60m startup initiative is making it easier for startups to find capital, meetups, accelerators, plus collaborative opportunities with established corporates and other entities, says Aimee Whittingham, Manager at RSM Australia’s Assurance & Advisory division. Given that...

RSM 20 Oct '17

Show HN: Appsites – Beautiful websites for mobile

Tech

And when we woke up, we had these bodies. They're like, except I'm having them! Oh, I think we should just stay friends. You'll have all the Slurm you can drink when you're partying with Slurms McKenzie Hey, tell me something. You've got all this money. How come you always dress like you're doing your laundry? Yes, if you make it look...

wpengine 19 Jun '17