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Forget STEM – Australia Needs A Chief Technology Officer
Commercial innovation in the 21st century is very focused on IT engineering and much less so on science.
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Henry Ford, Lies & Innovation
In an article in the Harvard Business Review, Patrick Vlaskovits has decided that the quote below, attributed to Henry
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18 Lessons for Entrepreneurs from 300+ Startup Accelerator Applications
I launch startups and develop inventions for a living and mentor a lot of entrepreneurs in my spare time. In
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Technology Development vs Product Development, Pick One, You Can’t Do Both At Once
After an animated heated conversation last week with a new entrepreneur who was busy trying to build an end
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Australia’s High-Tech Start-Up Sector – Who Actually Wants One?
Some time back I wrote a paper outlining one hypothesis as to how the corporations in the Australian
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What’s Possible With A Lean Startup Government?
The great thing about startups is that they get s**t done. There is no time to pontificate, no
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20 Suggestions To Kickstart a 1000 Startups – Open Letter To Prime Minister Turnbull
The Hon. Malcolm Turnbull, MP Prime Minister of Australia Dear Prime Minister Finally we have blast off. Congratulatio…
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Tesla Motors: a most unlikely disintermediation
A couple of weeks back, on the occasion of my daughter’s impending birthday, I was wandering through Westfield
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The Law of Effective Marketing
Some business laws are like gravity – one of those is The Law Of Effective Marketing. This Law
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Significant & Premium Investor Visas – The Australian Government’s Stroke of Genius No One Noticed
Yesterday after a massive week of budget hysteria the Australian Federal Government quietly announced new frameworks for…
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Let a 1000 Startups Bloom – Australia Needs a Quest
Subtitle: Where are our Tech Billionaires? I am quite lucky in some ways, in my day job I
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How Do I Know If I Should Take A Job At A Startup?
James Altucher is an entrepreneur and bestselling author who has founded over 20 companies, failed with most of them but…
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How to Herd Cats — Commercialising University Research
This post was, inspired by a recent article by James Alexander from Incubate.org.au where he compares wrangling academic…
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The Franchise Model is Dead, Long Live The New Franchise Model
Once upon a time when I was a young apprentice in the Royal Australian Navy (some 3 lifetimes
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Why Going Corporate Doesn’t Mean Going Rogue: The Rise of Intrapreneurship
Today’s Guest post is from Saksham Kapoor, the UNSW founder of Recommuso a new music platform which launches soon,
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Welfare is the Y Combinator for the masses
Ed: This week we will be featuring a number of guest posts from undergraduate students from University of
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Want to start a Startup? Why Passion counts.
Ed: This week we will be featuring a number of guest posts from undergraduate students from University of
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Should I Keep My Startup Idea In “Stealth Mode”?
Ed: This week we will be featuring a number of guest posts from undergraduate students from University of
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How to Rebuild the World – Be 1000% Better
James Altucher is an entrepreneur and bestselling author who has founded over 20 companies, failed with most of them but…
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1st World Product Development & What The Customer Really Wanted
Ed: This post came about after a number of tongue in cheek posts on Ian Maxwells personal blog that