by Joanne Jacobs | Oct 26, 2018 | Innovation, Marketing-led Startups, News, Startups, Uncategorized
Startup Muster’s fifth Annual Report on the startup ecosystem unveils the progress, opportunities and challenges for Australia’s startup ecosystem, and the strengths and weaknesses of this sector. The 2018 Annual Report included responses from 777 verified startup...
by Joanne Jacobs | Aug 1, 2018 | Data Science, Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Startups
Many years ago, I started measuring my business activities. It was the early days of the web and my boss was not that interested in this internet fad. After all, they had had a website for a few years and it had just been a massive expense. But I had a sense that...
by Joanne Jacobs | Jul 19, 2018 | Agile Marketing, Digital Transformation, Hackathons, Innovation, Marketing, SexTech, Startups
What is the future of marketing – is it innovation? Is it the other way around? We believe it’s both as Gavin Heaton explains on the Echo Junction podcast. Since the Echo Junction podcast began back in 2015, I have been a huge fan. Not only does founder,...
by Joanne Jacobs | Jun 22, 2018 | Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Disruption, Innovation, Public Speaking, Startups, Uncategorized
Over the next couple of weeks, we are visiting Singapore to talk innovation with enterprise, and to help the teams we first met at Asia’s first ever sextech hackathon. Singapore is exciting, and not just because it’s currently ranked the third most...
by Joanne Jacobs | Mar 27, 2017 | FinTech, Innovation, Startups
Up until recently, I was totally convinced that the tech start-up world was closed off to the entrepreneurial elite and the tech-savvy. Having familiarised myself with the Hollywood accounts of the evolutions of Facebook and Apple, it seemed reasonable to believe...
by Joanne Jacobs | Feb 5, 2017 | Digital Disruption, Innovation, Social Impact, Startups
A few weeks ago I watched this YouTube video of a younger, Jack Ma, presenting in a non-descript room to a few colleagues. The presentation was from a time before Alibaba became the global ecommerce powerhouse that it is today. It was 1999 and Ma was setting a vision...
