Founders Helping Founders

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Sep 29, 2016	Four crucial lessons for entrepreneurs from Redbubble founder Martin Hosking: “Any startup is brutally hard and risky”	After founding the online marketplace for creatives in 2006, Martin Hosking has transformed Redbubble into a giant of the Australian startup sector worth nearly $300 million. During an AMA run by Blackbird Ventures, Hosking described how he...
Sep 19, 2016	Blackbird Ventures head of operations Samantha Wong on the biggest mistakes Aussie founders make when pitching	There are three big mistakes that Australian founders regularly make when pitching to investors, Blackbird VC head of operations Samantha Wong says. Wong, who is also a partner at Startmate and an angel investor, recently took part in an AM...
Sep 7, 2016	What the director of admissions at Y Combinator looks for in a startup	Australian entrepreneur Denis Mars has been founding startups since before he could get a driver’s licence. The founder is currently living in Silicon Valley to work on his latest startup, Proxy, which recently raised $2.1 million, and also...
Aug 23, 2016	The best piece of advice Fishburners CEO Murray Hurps has ever received	Murray Hurps launched his first startup when he was 16, and has spent the next 16 years running companies and supporting other tech ventures. After co-founding the national startup survey Startup Muster four years ago, he took over as CEO o...
Aug 15, 2016	Silicon Valley veteran Susan Wu on what makes a successful founder and the biggest mistake early-stage startups can make	According to “hacker, entrepreneur and investor” Susan Wu, anyone can be a world-leading entrepreneur. Wu, who has worked with tech giants like Twitter, Square and Reddit, and is the founder of Ohai, FreeAgent.com and the Above All Human co...
Aug 5, 2016	How a Sydney founder used a tiny university grant to build the first student-focused startup accelerator in the Asia-Pacific	James Alexander was a student at the University of Sydney when he discovered there was “tiny bit” of money left over for arts grant. The opportunistic entrepreneur quickly threw his hat into the ring. “Look, I want to help students that wan...
Jul 25, 2016	What founders and investors misunderstand about each other according to “true friend to startups” Gavin Appel	Across more than 20 years Gavin Appel has held nearly every position you can in the startup world, from founder to CTO, and product developer to venture capitalist. He was a core member of Hitwise’s leadership team, a startup eventually acq...
Jul 21, 2016	OpenAgent founder Zoe Pointon on why you should work for a startup before launching your own	In four years Zoe Pointon and her team have grown OpenAgent into one of Australia’s most popular review platforms, with 10,000 people using it every year to pick their real estate agents. In an AMA session run by Blackbird Ventures, she say...
Jul 11, 2016	Rock bottom: How Dean McEvoy got through his darkest days to build a startup that sold for $40 million	Prominent Australian entrepreneur Dean McEvoy remembers the moment he hit rock bottom well. He got a call from his dad saying his grandfather had passed away. Distraught, McEvoy quickly jumped on a plane, but realised he couldn’t afford a r...
Jun 28, 2016	How this Aussie founder convinced tech investors to back his socially conscious startup	When Chuffed founder Prashan Paramanathan mentioned the word “charity” as he pitched his socially conscious startup to investors, he lost many of them straight away. “There was a subset of the tech investor group that heard ‘charity’ and im...
Jun 20, 2016	The five characteristics prominent investor Mick Liubinskas looks for in a founder and the three questions he always asks	Prominent Australian founder, entrepreneur and investor Mick Luibinskas says there are three crucial questions he always asks a founder, whether he’s looking to mentor them or invest in them. In an AMA session run by Blackbird Ventures, the...
Jun 16, 2016	Prominent Australian investor Rick Baker’s biggest mistake and what he learnt from it	Australian venture capitalist Rick Baker was once offered an investment in Facebook. The $25 million investment was at a $32 billion valuation at the time, and by today it would’ve made a 10 times return. But Baker said no. In a Blackbird V...
Jun 9, 2016	Hey You founder Rebekah Campbell on her biggest startup regret	For Hey You founder Rebekah Campbell, there’s one big thing she’d do different if she had her time over again. Campbell founded Posse in 2010, which after a series of pivots became mobile ordering and payments platform for cafes Hey You. In...
Mar 17, 2016	The founders of Atlassian, Canva and other “big idea” startups set to share their secrets at Vivid	The brains behind some of Australia’s biggest startup success stories will be coming together to speak at a Sydney conference as part of the Vivid festival in Sydney. Hosted by Blackbird Ventures and Startmate, The Sunrise startup conferenc...
May 26, 2015	Serial entrepreneur Susan Wu’s four tips to be a better founder	Being the best possible founder comes down to having strong skills in one or two areas and mitigating your weaknesses by hiring the right people, according to the head of Stripe for Australia and New Zealand, Susan Wu. Speaking at The Sunri...
May 25, 2015	Eventbrite co-founder says the key to raising capital is meeting your own expectations	For the co-founder of Silicon Valley-based startup Eventbrite, raising $200 million over six years all comes down to proving to investors that you can meet and exceed expectations. Speaking at The Sunrise conference in Sydney, Renaud Visage...
May 25, 2015	Six pieces of no nonsense advice from Shark Tank’s Steve Baxter	Selling a startup for $373 million despite not finishing high school was all due to having a strong passion for business, according to investor and Shark Tank star Steve Baxter. Speaking at The Sunrise conference in Sydney about his experie...
Apr 27, 2015	Sunrise Conference hopes to give schoolchildren some startup inspiration	The Sunrise Conference is back again for another year, this time with a separate program aimed at encouraging high school students to found their own startups. The Sunrise Conference founder Niki Scevak says even he didn’t really hear about...
Sep 23, 2014	Founder admits he stuffed up when he said women in tech are a cheaper alternative than men	LookSmart founder Evan Thornley says he “stuffed up” when he made sexist comments during a speech he gave at The Sunrise conference in Sydney on Friday. During the speech, Thornley pointed out how female workers were undervalued in labour m...
Sep 22, 2014	Founder admits he stuffed up when he said women in tech are a cheaper alternative than men	LookSmart founder Evan Thornley says he “stuffed up” when he made sexist comments during a speech he gave at The Sunrise conference in Sydney on Friday. During the speech, Thornley pointed out how female workers were undervalued in labour m...
Sep 21, 2014	The top take aways from The Sunrise Conference	Last Friday, Blackbird VC hosted The Sunrise conference which featured some of Australia’s greatest technology companies, sharing the stories of their early years. Speakers included Mike Cannon-Brookes (Atlassian), Bevan Clark (Retail Me No...
Aug 29, 2014	Niki Scevak says Australians need to learn about our startup successes in order to grow	The leading entrepreneurs behind some of Australia’s best-known tech companies, including Atlassian, Envato and Freelancer.com, are set to share their experiences as startup founders at The Sunrise Conference, organised by Blackbird Venture...

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Parsers VC has collected 23 articles mentioning Founders Helping Founders, among them “Four crucial lessons for entrepreneurs from Redbubble founder Martin Hosking: “Any startup is brutally hard and risky”” (Sep 29, 2016) and “Blackbird Ventures head of operations Samantha Wong on the biggest mistakes Aussie founders make when pitching” (Sep 19, 2016).

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