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The New Kokoda Track campaign: delivering solar energy to PNG villages
No Roads Expeditions, a Melbourne travel company, announced that it has brought 250 solar-powered LED lights to the village of Kagi, which lies along the Papua New Guinea track. The company agreed to provide the lights in coordination with the Kokoda Track Foundation (KTF), whose Light Up the Track initiative has provided over 3,000 solar lights to 30 PNG villages.
The six fingered hand of entrepreneurs
True entrepreneurs are focused, resourceful, passionate, and driven to succeed. They’re pioneers discovering new lands, mapping the way forward, comfortable fighting on the frontline.
Ignite your clean energy tech business the Y Combinator way
Ignition Labs, Australia’s first clean technology accelerator is looking for cool ideas. Using the model that has proven so successful for Y Combinator, Ignition Labs will help guide five clean technology companies into commercial viability. Have you got an idea that needs ignition?
One less reason to protect your IP properly. Repeat after me, more patents, less red tape
Parliamentary Secretary for Industry and Innovation Mark Dreyfus, is a massive fan of new laws passed last month, designed to strengthen Australia’s intellectual property system. It’s always exciting when there’s a chance of less red tape getting in the way of running your business.
Serial Aussie entrepreneur wants to help every business create a successful website – for free!
Serial Aussie entrepreneur Chris Sharkey, alongside his equally intrepid brothers Michael and Peter, has launched yet another internet start-up, Bislr (pronounced Biz-ler).
Payoff from Wi-Fi patent swells to $829 million but, time is running out for CSIRO to cash in
It might be the last big cheque CSIRO will collect before its storied patent — used in an estimated three billion Wi-Fi devices worldwide — expires at the end of next year. The CSIRO has pocketed about $829 million, a lot of it grudgingly from American companies who infringed on the patent. The story of this single patent is something every entrepreneur should understand.
How selling my microbusiness differed from selling Instagram; I didn’t get a call from Mark Zuckerberg for starters
A “micro” is any business that turns over less than $250K a year, so the business I sold this week most definitely falls into that category! Instagram, it was not. So, in celebration of the HUGE gap between the sale price of my business and how much Instagram’s Kevin Systrom made last week, here are three things I learnt from selling my micro-business.
3 unique tips you can’t ignore if you’re building a niche startup
You have come up with a cracker of an idea. It’s not just slightly different. It’s unique and out of the box. You can see a new market emerging and you’re ahead of the pack. It should be easy to get the dollars rolling in — right? Think again.
Cool invention measured pollution in Australia. Now, it will tilt windmills in Kenya
It was originally developed to measure wind-shear at airports for aircraft to safely land and take-off. Which, you have to admit, is rather important. This innovative Australian laser technology is now poised to change the lives of millions.
Imagination Effect: don’t underestimate the effect of your imagination on your business
Some may say, you’re a dreamer. But you’re not the only one. Okay, paraphrasing John Lennon, has never been done before. Ever. New research shows, that not only should you not be alone but that the dreamers, should be actively encouraged to think, create and imagine.
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