Posts tagged "startup advice"

'Smart keg' company Binary Beer is one of five startups the University of Wollongong's iAccelerator is shipping off on a whirlwind tour of Europe's technology and innovation scene.

AI-enabled bill payment platform Gobbill is partnering up with two other fintechs to realise its international goals, but co-founder Shendon Ewans tells StartupSmart there are more important things than figures to consider in this particular type of business.

Brighte has closed its $18.5 million Series B funding round, and founder and chief executive Katherine McConnell says the energy financing startup’s string of successes have come from a lot of networking, and a little patience.

Jack Dorsey says after building Twitter, getting his other business, Square, from a tech product to something that's useful to small businesses required a bit of a mindset shift.

Shark Tank season four is one week away. Here are the critical things investor Janine Allis was looking for this time around from entrepreneurs.

Australian hypnosis app Mindset has reached a milestone 12,000 users in just over two months, attributing its growth to a strong social presence and a commitment to getting to know its users.

It’s a term thrown around time and time again but regularly misconstrued or misinterpreted by startup founders. So what is product-market fit, and how important is it really?

Claire Hughes Johnson spent more than a decade working for Google, and now she's part of the leadership team of Irish payments startup Stripe. She shares her best advice for Australian startup founders.

Expanding to three international offices in under six months is no easy feat, but this is the path that video tech startup Shootsta decided to take.

While no one really questions whether innovation is a critical ingredient for success, the question of “how to innovate” tends to be a challenging one to answer, writes Dr Amantha Imber.

Sixteen-year-old Connor Cameron says he’s had an entrepreneurial streak since his first year of high-school, selling soft drinks out of his locker at lunchtime to friends for a dollar a pop. Now he runs a successful online jobs marketplace for students, Stakk.

Cyan Ta'eed is the co-founder of multimillion-dollar Australian design startup Envato. But an involuntary tech detox was the catalyst she needed to launch her new chocolate business, Hey Tiger.