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...
In the world of startups we have been obsessed with failure. And learning. Or what Mick Liubinskas from muru-D calls “flearning”. You will, no doubt, have heard of the concept of “fail-fast” – a term borrowed from system design and applied to software engineering –...
