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...
by Joanne Jacobs | Nov 6, 2016 | FinTech, Startups, Trends
From the outside, financial services can appear to be a behemoth – enormously slow to change direction and cumbersome when it tries to do so. But over the last decade financial services firms have come under fire from fast moving, disruptive players – the “FinTechs”...
by Joanne Jacobs | Oct 27, 2016 | Future of Work, Innovation, Startups
Every corporation, no matter at what stage of the corporation’s development, requires regular evaluations of corporate objectives and applied insight into making advantageous strategic decisions. The makeup of boards can either make or break the corporation’s...
by Joanne Jacobs | Oct 3, 2016 | Future of Work, Innovation, Marketing-led Startups, Startups
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...
by Joanne Jacobs | Jul 11, 2016 | Innovation, Marketing-led Startups, News, Startups
Any startup founder will tell you that statistics are important. They will know the exact metrics that make their business successful. Or not. But the plain truth is that statistics are hard work. You need to know what to measure and when. You need to understand why...
by Joanne Jacobs | Jun 6, 2016 | Innovation, Startups
New comers to the Australian startup scene can find the landscape confusing. Not only is there constant change with new teams, spaces, funds and startups either starting, growing or closing down, the people and teams are also constantly on the move. Artesian Venture...