When we look at startups, we are often surprised at how SMALL they are. One, two and three person teams seem to be able to generate significant output in very short periods of time. Even when we look at our more successful startups – operations like Canva or Atlassian...
At the recent mentor evening at Telstra’s Muru-D accelerator, we were shocked to realise that we have been working with the Muru-D startups for over two years. Time has flown. Businesses have launched and friendships have been formed. It is a timely reminder that a...
Once you know what to look for, you see them everywhere. Groups huddled together cooing and fawning around the helpless little thing in the centre of the crowd. There are grown women and men speaking in strange tongues, encouraging, calling for attention. Taking...
The last week of October was always going to be frantic. Not only was this scheduled as the launch of Australia’s first ever Startup Week, Sydney conference series, it was bookended on Monday by the Telstra Digital Summit and on Thursday/Friday by SydStart –...
Some say that “corporate startups” are an oxymoron – that you can’t have startups within corporates. But I have been establishing, building and growing these strange, hybrid businesses for well over a decade. I have had the good fortune to launch businesses for...
No matter whether I am speaking with a startup entrepreneur or a business person with an eye on innovation, the conversation quickly turns to the “big idea”. When I worked in advertising, the big idea was everywhere – it was the bright, shiny object that would get my...