| Date | Title | Description |
| 24.09.2015 | Shorten takes on Turnbull to stake out startup “path to the future” | Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has announced a “second wave” of policies that Labor will be taking to the election with the aim of making Australia a “startup nation”.
The $17.8 million policy package includes efforts to encourage young Aus... |
| 27.08.2015 | Round-up of the AngelCube Demo Day pitches | AngelCube’s latest batch of startups showed their ideas to the world for the first time at the accelerator’s Melbourne community Demo Day on Tuesday night.
It was first chance for the startups to pitch with the pressure of 200 people in the... |
| 06.08.2015 | Founding Stone a good support for real estate crowdfunder | Australian real estate equity crowdfunding platform Estate Baron has closed a $400,000 seed funding round led by AngelCube founder Adrian Stone.
The Melbourne-based startup aims to lower the barrier to entry for investment in real estate pr... |
| 05.08.2015 | AngelCube takes six startups under its wing | Melbourne-based accelerator AngelCube has announced the six startups that are currently taking part in its program.
The program, which the six startups began in June, involves a $40,000 investment in exchange for 8% equity, as well as mento... |
| 03.08.2015 | Business incubators and start-up accelerators: Valuable assets or a waste of time and money? | Business incubators are organisations that provide support to start-up and early stage businesses through the provision of facilities, mentoring and coaching, training, networking and seed capital financing. The first business incubator is ... |
| 28.07.2015 | Aussie cities tumble down ecosystem rankings | Australian cities are at risk of “being left behind” by other global startup ecosystems, a new report says.
Sydney is now at 16th on the 2015 Global Startup Ecosystem Rankings, falling four places from 2012, while Melbourne has dropped out ... |
| 05.06.2015 | AngelCube co-founder Adrian Stone says move to Melbourne and get $10,000 for 2% equity | The co-founder of AngelCube, Adrian Stone, is challenging 10 startups to relocate to Melbourne, and he’ll give them $10,000 for 2% equity to do it.
It might have begun as a tongue-in-cheek conversation with venture capitalist Mark Carnegie ... |
| 18.05.2015 | Redu.us’ journey from AngelCube to Chile, to the top of the App Store | After graduating AngelCube Melbourne-founded educational app, startup Redu.us has taken founder David Truong on a journey from Chile to San Francisco, from San Francisco to Berlin, and from Berlin to the top of the App Store in the Games/Ed... |
| 04.05.2015 | Melbourne’s startup ecosystem: where to from here? | Software is eating the world, or so it goes.
Only a few decades ago, software didn’t exist, and now it is so pervasive one struggles to think of an industry that has not been affected — drastically — by software. An impact so rapid it is un... |
| 04.05.2015 | AngelCube’s investment soars, though it clips its equity wings | Melbourne-based accelerator AngelCube has announced it is doubling the size of its investment and reducing the amount of equity it takes in return.
The accelerator, which launched in 2011, will offer its 2015 intake of startups $40,000 in f... |
| 22.04.2015 | Investors want to see traction, not accelerator credentials, says Shark Tank’s Steve Baxter | Being able to prove traction is more attractive to investors than having completed a mentoring or accelerator program, according to investor Steve Baxter.
Speaking on a panel titled ‘The harsh truth: before, during and after the accelerator... |
| 14.04.2015 | How to get into an accelerator: The three T criteria | You’ve got a global vision for how to change the world, a few friends who’ve heard the pitch and love it. The team is in place, and there might even be a few early customers. You know it could be the next big thing, as long as you get some ... |
| 17.03.2015 | Up to the task: Enterprise resourcing platform etaskr closes $1.3 million seed round from Oxygen Ventures | Enterprise resourcing platform etaskr has announced it has closed a $1.3 million seed round from Oxygen Ventures. The funding will be used to make strategic hires, scale the platform and develop the product.
Etaskr’s platform allows busines... |
| 25.02.2015 | Pub session leads to Class idea | About halfway through the 2014 AngelCube program, Sam Lee and Mark Robinson realised their startup idea wasn’t viable.
So they decided to head to the pub, along with AngelCube co-founder Adrian Stone, and that’s where they came up with the ... |
| 23.02.2015 | AngelCube accelerator applications open: “We don’t just want a high level crazy idea” | Vision, ability to execute, and global ambitions are the qualities Melbourne-based accelerator AngelCube is looking for from applicants for its 2015 program.
The accelerator opens applications for its 2015 intake on February 23 offering $20... |
| 06.01.2015 | Flopportunity: Why failure is an opportunity | The harsh reality is that failure fucking sucks.
Don’t let the startup mantras and hashtags fool you. Failure is emotionally draining, physically exhausting and psychologically frustrating. In some circles, it’s externally glorified, and in... |
| 19.12.2014 | A New Year’s resolution to measure: #2015istheyear | It’s January 1, 2015. You’ve put on four kilos over the last 10 days, having stuffed your face with empty carbs – delicious empty carbs – and feel somewhat guilty. So you make the resolution to join a gym, in order to lose that extra weight... |
| 18.12.2014 | How this Aussie startup plans to become a leading player in the booming world of bitcoin: #2015istheyear | Today I’m joined by Asher Tan from CoinJar, a startup that lets you buy, sell, and manage your bitcoin. CoinJar was founded by Asher and Ryan Zhou in mid-2013 and it’s been a whirlwind ride ever since.
With something in the area of $50 mill... |
| 17.12.2014 | David Chung of etaskr on chucking in corporate life to chase the startup dream: #2015istheyear | Today we’ve got a case study of the corporate kind, bringing you up close and personal with David Chung, co-founder of etaskr – an online resourcing platform that is an enterprise software version of sites such as freelancer and oDesk. It a... |
| 16.12.2014 | Bid-based shopping platform promises fear-free haggling | Sydney-based startup Bidz Direct has developed a new shopping platform that’s attempting to give consumers more control over pricing.
Co-founder Phil Tran told StartupSmart Bidz Direct lets buyers select an item, name the price and get an i... |
| 15.12.2014 | Why ‘manual first’ can help you MVP quicker: #2015istheyear | A common refrain in Silicon Valley is ‘manual first’, referring to all the different approaches you can take to validate and grow your startup idea before putting any time into building a web or mobile application.
The reason this approach ... |
| 12.12.2014 | How Ash Davies created his ‘YouTube for books’ startup Tablo: #2015istheyear | Startups, like genius, are 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Successful startups execute. But executing drains your energy, so it’s important to go back to the well of inspiration somewhat regularly, to make sure you’re up to the task.
W... |
| 11.12.2014 | How to validate your idea over Christmas: #2015istheyear | You’ve got an idea for a startup – good for you. What most people don’t realise is that ideas are worth next to nothing.
The majority of startups change their idea markedly between start and success. What you really need to focus on is the ... |
| 09.12.2014 | The year for my idea: #2015istheyear | In conjunction with AngelCube, this December StartupSmart is challenging all those would-be founders out there to turn their ideas into reality. Here’s the first in a series of articles we’ll be running over the next two weeks that we hope ... |
| 22.09.2014 | Cold emailing investors can be done with some success | The best piece of advice Moodswing co-founder Jake McKeon has heard since he arrived in San Francisco with AngelCube on their tour of the San Francisco and New York is perhaps the simplest: “You’re never going to raise money from the US, un... |
| 16.09.2014 | The consumer market is the real opportunity says App.io | Sitting at The Creamery,“deal central for techies”, in San Francisco’s tech heart Soma, App.io’s CEO Diesel Laws feels the decision to leave Melbourne was the right one.
“The mentality here that’s so different to Australia is that you don’t... |
| 12.09.2014 | Demo day, the Australian way | If you’ve gone through an incubator program, demo days are the culmination of months of hard work, the big reveal of what you’ve been working on to impress an investor network. A graduation of sorts.
For the elite incubators in San Francisc... |
| 04.09.2014 | Startups should be an equal opportunity sport | It was great to see some amazing women join this year’s AngelCube program, with three of the six teams having female co-founders.
Prior to the program, AngelCube co-founder Adrian Stone declared he didn’t think enough was being done to fost... |
| 03.09.2014 | AngelCube demo day reveals a diverse class of 2014 | Kicking off a round of demo days that will be held in Sydney, San Francisco, Silicon Valley and New York, the latest round of AngelCube’s early stage startups did their best to impress a room full of investors and influencers in Melbourne, ... |
| 19.06.2014 | Accelerator calls on government for fast-tracked grants | The federal government should introduce “fast-path” grant applications for tech startups and treat accelerators as consultants for the purposes of grant funding under the new Entrepreneurs’ Infrastructure Program (EIP), according to AngelCu... |
| 05.06.2014 | Pearcey Award winner Guy King warns Singapore’s “kicking our arse” in the race to become Asia’s tech hub | Hefty tax concessions are the only way to keep world-beating startups leaving Australian shores, according to RetailMeNot co-founder turned angel investor Guy King.
He adds that Singapore is “kicking our arse” in the battle to become Asia’s... |
| 20.05.2014 | LA opens up the rolodex for Aussie muru-D accelerator startups | Nine startups from the muru-D accelerator have returned from a trip to the United States where they were pursued heavily by a number of groups in Los Angeles to use the city as their gateway to the US market, according to muru-D startup hea... |
| 08.04.2014 | Australian VC calls on others to “write cheques” to encourage female entrepreneurs | AngelCube founder Adrian Stone has thrown down the gauntlet to investors to do something to address the apparent lack of female startup entrepreneurs.
Admitting that he doesn’t know how to solve the problem, he’s done what he says he can as... |
| 07.04.2014 | Australian VC calls on others to “write cheques” to encourage female entrepreneurs | AngelCube founder Adrian Stone has thrown down the gauntlet to investors to do something to address the apparent lack of female startup entrepreneurs.
Admitting that he doesn’t know how to solve the problem, he’s done what he says he can as... |
| 01.12.2013 | Australian Bitcoin Exchange CoinJar Gets A$500k in Venture Funding | Melbourne, Australia-based startup CoinJar announced it will receive “Australia’s first major bitcoin investment”, signing a deal with local venture capital firm Blackbird Ventures to the tune of A$500,000 (US$455,000). The money will come ... |
| 07.10.2013 | oDesk Launches Startup Accelerator Partnership Program | Redwood City, CA-based online workplace oDesk announced the launch of a new startup accelerator partnership program called oDesk Upstarts.
The program will help startups in 20+ partner accelerator programs delegate tasks in tech hubs, inclu... |
| 25.09.2013 | African Accelerators Change Tack As ‘Savannah Valley’ Emerges From The Wilderness | Kenyan accelerators, following mixed results from their rookie season, have tweaked their strategies for mentoring and investing in local entrepreneurs, in a bid to produce more successful startups. Accelerators 88mph and Savannah Fund are ... |
| 06.07.2012 | 12 key things investors look for in web start-ups | The fall of online retail business Shooii into administration this week is a further sobering reminder to entrepreneurs of the importance of cashflow.
Despite only operating for three months, Shooii ground to a halt through a lack of cash, ... |
| 02.04.2012 | Making waves in mature Melbourne | Melbourne
Population: 4.07 million
Start-up survival rate: 74.3% (2007 to 2009)
There’s no shortage of notable Melbourne start-ups, including daily deals site Catch of the Day and its group buying subsidiary Scoopon, which last year landed ... |
| 01.11.2011 | Playing catch-up in the start-up funding race | Over the past year, the Australian start-up sector has been sprinkled by some much-needed funding stardust.
Start-ups were previously saddled with uninterested VCs, conservative angels and banks that required a house and a first-born in ret... |
| 29.08.2011 | 10 milestones to hit in your first year | StartupSmart may be heading unscathed towards its first birthday on Thursday, but it’s clear that many start-ups don’t manage to make it that far or merely limp to their first anniversary.
Worrying new figures show that nearly 10,000 busine... |