Continuing on from the success of last year’s Startup Week Sydney, the Spark Festival is a collection of events focused on reinvigorating the Sydney innovation community. Over nine days, there will be a series of meetups, hackathons, workshops, panels and more that...
When I first started building businesses for companies, it was an expensive and time consuming enterprise. We’d need to think through and plan for every aspect of a creating a large scale business even though we’d always start small. After all, this was an investment...
This week in my classes at UTS, I put up this quote in a lecture on Agile Methodologies and Lean Thinking: As our companies turn into highly focused software organizations, we must change the way we manage them. A continuous learning environment fueled by...
From healthcare and healthtech to fitness, wearables, lifestyle, convenience and treatment, the opportunities for startups to transform the global (and local) healthcare industries is significant. Just think back to 1999-2000 genome sequencing project – where a 15...
When we think of innovation and technology, we often think of Google. Or Facebook. Locally, in Australia, we may think of some of the more successful startups – Atlassian, Canva or Campaign Monitor, but rarely do we think of more traditional industries such as health...