Calling the current state of the Australian startup and innovation scene the ‘flavour of the month,” veteran entrepreneur, director and angel investor, Topaz Conway, said business people - particularly women - need to be wary of the ‘fly-by-night’ atmosphere.
The Federal Opposition has proposed new policies encouraging more investment in startups, and to spread innovation support across Australia and overseas.
Sydney-based EdTech startup, Fluid Education, has created a new app to better engage students and improve how they communicate with their parents and teachers.
From stringent processes to Agile, from big budgets to small ones, from wearing only the IT-business hat to wearing all hats – there is a lot to learn when leaving the corporate world to build a startup.
Advancements in machine learning will not be the death knell of the modern workforce but rather provide ample new opportunities for growth, according to Telstra’s new CEO, Andrew Penn.
Qantas is set to benefit from a wealth of new ideas generated during its first ever hackathon last weekend.
Generous tax cuts for small businesses and removing obstacles to crowd-sourced equity funding for startups were two key measures announced in last night's federal budget.
Nothing brings a CIO and CMO together more than them going off on their own and starting up a business. That’s what ex-CIO Jacob Dudzinski and ex-CMO Mats Johnson have done with their startup, Wifi Control.
Getting ready to pitch venture capitalists on your big data startup? Here's a hint: Don't call yourself a 'big data company' and don't pitch by analogy.
"Follow the money" is classic advice for investigative journalists, auditors and entrepreneurs. But for CIOs? That doesn't quite compute. If anything, CIOs have a reputation for being risk-averse and hypercautious with corporate dollars-just ask any hot-eyed startup CEO who's ever pitched to one of you.
Lars and Jens Rasmussen, founders of Google Maps and Google Wave, have taken out the 2010 NSW ICT Entrepreneur of the Year award in Sydney.
CIOs must balance operational management with an entrepreneurial focus if their organistions are to make the most of growth opportunites in 2010, according on analyst firm, Gartner. The challenge is hardly new; IT leaders are well aware of the need to move from the cost consolidation to revenue creation.