Author's Articles

• 01
  Mar

  Build a business, not an app

  Businesses

  Angry Birds - one of the pioneering games that sparked the app craze It seems people are just putting the word “preneur” on the back of anything these days, aren’t they?  We’re seeing entrepreneur morphed into Mumpreneur (now in the dictionary), Wantrepreneur (someone that desires to be an entrepreneur), Kidpreneur (little crazy-smart kids building businesses), Foodpreneur (oh gawd!), Propertypreneur (som

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• 17
  Sep

  Start-Up Events: Web Direction South Conference introduces the all-new Star...

  Featured, Small Business Events, Start-Up Events

  October 16-19 This annual conference has been growing larger and larger over the past three years, and, with the addition of their new Startup Track featuring some of the best social and tech minds in the Australian Landscape, I am predicting that Web Directions South is going to have its largest event in Australia ever. Here is the line up of speakers on topics around the Startup Scene for the conference:

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• 03
  Sep

  Start-Up Events: Women’s Edition

  Businesses, Featured, Small Business Events, Start-Up Events

  I quite often get women asking me where they should go to meet and hang out with other female startups, especially those in the tech space as there still seems to be (at least in Australia) a majority of males attracted to tech type events. Sometimes a strong network of women, for women is what is sought after and needed, so I have put together a list of different organisations for the ladies to check out who is d

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• 13
  Aug

  Aussie Start-Up Events: 12.08.12

  Businesses, Featured, Start-Up Events, Starting Out

  It’s been a whirlwind couple of weeks on the Aussie startup scene. Over 1,700 young entrepreneurs attended the Unconvention in Melbourne to meet, network and hear from some of Australia’s top business minds such as Ruslan Kogan and Dorry Kordahi. And keeping with the young theme, startup One Can Grow, which aims to educate high school students about how to monetise their passions, finished their 8 week pilot p

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• 01
  Aug

  What’s On: The Aussie Startup Scene

  Businesses, Start-Up Events, Starting Out

  In these bi-weekly articles for MYOB we will be taking a look at the startup space and some of the events taking place around Australia. One of the things we all need to be aware of when it comes to the startup space though, is the MASSIVE amount of formal and informal events taking place almost daily, so each fortnight I will highlight a select few that I think are standouts at the time. However some of the places t

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