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| Dec 22, 2023 | GIVE initiative hopes to align consumers and companies with charities of choice | article-article-body
An Australian startup wants to redirect some of the billions of dollars worth of advertising, spent by companies all over the world, to charities.
The Melbourne-based startup, GIVE, was co-founded by Stacey Murphy who s... |
| Feb 11, 2019 | Apple's Melbourne flagship site faces $40m buyback bid | Opponents of plans to build an Apple store on Federation Square in Melbourne want to raise $40 million to outbid the tech firm for the building it wants to use.
The flagship store was announced just before Christmas in 2017 and requires the... |
| Mar 30, 2016 | This Melbourne startup wants to help people build relationships over a shared love of food | A Melbourne-based entrepreneur is planning to launch a new social network this month helping to connect people over a mutual love of food.
Let’s Meet At founder Loretta McGill says she created the startup to help people build meaningful rel... |
| Mar 15, 2016 | This coding program gives female programmers the chance to work for some of the biggest startups in Australia | A global coding program is giving aspiring female programmers the chance to work on projects for some of the biggest startups in Australia.
In its second year for Melbourne, Rails Girls Summer of Code sponsored by the likes of Google Open S... |
| Sep 15, 2015 | Phoebe Yu – founder of ettitude | website twitter facebook instagram youtube pinterest
Phoebe is the founder and CEO of ettitude, an online retailer of eco-friendly bedding essentials. With over a decade’s experience working in supply chain management and merchandising, Pho... |
| Sep 11, 2015 | New app aims to gamify mental health strategies | Working as a mental health outreach worker for two years, David Bakker regularly encountered people who wanted to find ways to improve how they felt, but didn’t really know how to go about it.
“If you go to Google and type in ‘I’m anxious, ... |
| Aug 14, 2015 | Buchan awesome: Record crowdfunding target reached to rebuild pub | Buchan in regional Victoria is celebrating today after a crowdfunding campaign to see the town’s pub rebuilt raised more than $600,000, with so many last-minute donations it crashed the website involved.
The Buchan Caves Hotel burnt down in... |
| Jun 4, 2015 | Meet the entrepreneur who invested $80,000 into an app about endangered animals | Mobile games are the perfect tool for education and more entrepreneurs should jump into the space, according to the founder of an app designed to teach people about the environment and conservation.
A few years ago Natalie Kyriacou knew ver... |
| Mar 2, 2015 | Xiaomi releases a $63 GoPro competitor (with optional selfie stick) | Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi is breaking into the sports camera industry with a low-cost camera retailing at only RMB399 (US$63). The GoPro-style gadget is also offered in a RMB499 version, which includes an accompanying selfie stick.
Du... |
| Mar 2, 2015 | Xiaomi releases a $63 GoPro competitor (with optional selfie stick) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi is breaking into the sports camera industry with a low-cost camera retailing at only RMB399 (US$63). Th... |
| Dec 11, 2014 | Beauty And The Geak | The Geak Watch II might have an ugly name but it is one of the most “watch-like” smartwatches I’ve seen in a while. Clad in chromed metal and featuring a dual e-ink/LCD display, the piece supposedly lasts for five days on a charge and can c... |
| Dec 4, 2014 | Pip Russell – founder of Juiced TV | For the past 9 years, Pip has been a presenter for two of Network Ten’s national children’s shows, Toasted TV and Totally Wild. During this time, she’s had many adventures throughout the country and overseas, met some incredibly inspiring p... |
| Nov 28, 2014 | Successful crowdfunding campaign speaks volumes about suitcase soundsystems | Forget about vinyl – the next big thing among audiophiles could be suitcases reinvented as speakers, with a Melbourne-based startup raising $17,370 for the devices (against a target of $16,000) in just days on Pozible.
Son Valise cofounder ... |
| Nov 28, 2014 | Australian platform linking students and social enterprises is heading to Washington, thanks to 1776 | A platform that connects university students with project-based internships from social enterprises and charities has been named among the four Australian startups set to participate in the 1776 Challenge Festival next year.
Milaana was fou... |
| Sep 8, 2014 | Safe Mate surfs wave of technology to help save lives | Soon thousands of surf lifesaving club nippers around the country could be diving into the water with wearable technology.
Last week, safety innovation startup Safe Mate, in conjunction with the Manly Life Saving Club, launched a pilot prog... |
| Aug 18, 2014 | Living off $3 a day in San Francisco to support entrepreneurs in the developing world | Australian entrepreneur Chris Ball is set to ride 2000 kilometres from Seattle to San Francisco, while living on just $3 per day, to raise money and awareness for Spark International, a charity that aims to combat poverty by supporting entr... |
| Aug 6, 2014 | GIVE and take: the startup hoping to enliven consumers’ growing sense of social responsibility | An Australian startup wants to redirect some of the billions of dollars worth of advertising, spent by companies all over the world, to charities.
The Melbourne-based startup, GIVE, was co-founded by Stacey Murphy who says the idea, which i... |
| Jul 8, 2014 | 10 crowdfunding campaigns you should prioritise over potato salad | An American has crowdfunded more than $30,000 on Kickstarter to make a potato salad, raising some questions as to where people are willing to put their money. While the campaign is seen by many as an ironic gimmick, and initially set out to... |
| Jun 12, 2014 | Want to test your zombie fighting skills? | Melbourne startup Zero Latency is trying to give virtual reality its ‘arcade moment’.
It has developed a fully wireless virtual reality platform that uses real-time motion capture, wireless backpacks and controllers in a scalable multiplaye... |
| May 7, 2014 | Grilled Cheese by Parachute May Not Fly With U.S. Regulators | May 7, 2014 3 min read
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's – a parachuting grilled cheese sandwich?
Melbourne, Australia-based company Jafflechutes funded a $5,000 campaign to bring grilled cheese sandwiches – called jaffles in Australia – to t... |
| Apr 28, 2014 | Pozible launches in China, smashing crowdfunding records in under a minute | Australian crowdfunding platform Pozible has launched in China with its first campaign reaching its target of 10,000 Chinese yuan within minutes of launching, raising an amount of 464,602 Chinese yuan at the time of publishing.
Pozible co-f... |
| Apr 24, 2014 | Pozible launches in China, smashing crowdfunding records in under a minute | Australian crowdfunding platform Pozible has launched in China with its first campaign reaching its target of 10,000 Chinese yuan within minutes of launching, raising an amount of 464,602 Chinese yuan at the time of publishing.
Pozible co-f... |
| Apr 9, 2014 | Artist Run Initiative Paper Mountain Has A Common Room For A Sharing Space | Paper Mountain is a Perth based artist run initiative with a gallery, co-working space (The Common Room) and studios, located in the heart of Northbridge, WA.
Paper Mountain presents a top notch program of surprising new art and ideas, and ... |
| Jan 15, 2014 | Crowdfunding Site Pozible Offers A Kickstarter Alternative For Asia-Based Projects | Kickstarter is undoubtedly the top crowdfunding site in the world, with over $480 million pledged in 2013. For projects outside of the five countries (the U.S., UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand) the platform is available in, however, ... |
| Nov 20, 2013 | Bec McHenry founder of PopUnion, The Projection Room and more! | Starting her own business at the age of 22, Bec McHenry is used to being in charge. Driven and ambitious, she started The Projection Room because she wanted to help people achieve their projections for a better world. As Australia’s second ... |
| Jul 9, 2013 | Nikos Psaltopoulos – founder of themanroom | Nikos Psaltopoulos is the Melbourne born founder of themanroom. He studied Professional Writing & Editing and worked at media outlets including Channel Ten, ABC Radio and various print publications. At the same time as founding themanro... |
| Jun 28, 2013 | The 10 biggest issues facing start-ups in 2013: #2 funding | What are the main issues Australian start-ups are grappling with? Accountancy and business advisor network DFK recently conducted a survey of its clients and staff to identify the top 10.
We’ve already highlighted number 10, cloud computing... |
| Feb 15, 2013 | Grace Clapham – founder of Agent Grace & Secret {W} Business | Born in Indonesia to Australian and Indonesian parents, Grace was raised for most of her life in Singapore. She has had the privilege of living in Indonesia, Ecuador, Australia and the US before returning back to Singapore nearly 4 years ag... |
| Nov 6, 2012 | The four potential pitfalls of crowdfunding your start-up | Crowdfunding has come a long way from its origins when it was a method used by struggling rock bands to raise money for tours and recordings.
It has proven to be a highly successful vehicle to raise funds for disaster relief, philanthropic ... |
| Oct 4, 2012 | Social Startup 48 winner hunts $1 million via crowdfunding | A Melbourne entrepreneur has launched a campaign to raise $1 million in funding for a recycling project that won the recent Social Startup 48 event.
Marco Ferlaino has set a target to raise the seven-figure sum via crowdfunding platform Poz... |
| Oct 1, 2012 | How we raised thousands via crowdfunding | Like increasing numbers of budding Australian entrepreneurs, Kylie Gusset has turned to crowdfunding in order to get her enterprise off the ground.
Gusset’s mission was simple – to purchase and process a tonne of quality Tasmanian wool that... |
| Nov 9, 2011 | Arts crowd-funding platform Pozible hits $1 million pledges, and shares 11 tips to crowd-funding success
Pozible’s 11 tips to crowd-funding success | |
| Sep 26, 2011 | Online entrepreneur pitches for funding for app developer TV series | An internet entrepreneur is looking to raise $25,000 to create a five-part online TV series that will help start-up app developers get their ideas off the ground.
Anthony Agius, co-founder of the MacTalk forums, aims to raise the money via ... |
