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Aussie tech entrepreneurs dominate top 5 at the 2016 APAC Talent Unleashed awards

At an awards event in Melbourne, Richard Earl, Executive Chairman and Founder of Talent, announced the APAC regional winners for the 2016 Talent Unleashed Awards, naming the most talented and disruptive entrepreneurs in the Asia-Pacific Region and demonstrating the strength and diversity of the APAC technology sector.

This Silicon Valley crowdfunding start-up has launched in Australia and university students are totally...

Silicon Valley startup, Tilt, has launched in Australia following mass success in the US, Canada, UK and France following huge uptake among millennials

Steve Wozniak is coming to present these tech awards in Sydney and Sir Richard...

IT recruitment company Talent has launched the 2016 Talent Unleashed Awards, announcing Steve Wozniak and Sir Richard Branson as some of the judges

A social start-up that is lighting India up won the first ever Australian final...

At the inaugural Australian final of Chivas Regal’s The Venture, Pollinate Energy came out on top and will join the top 28 start-ups from across the world

A Chinese city looking for Australia’s brightest minds has launched a $100 million innovation...

Australia’s brightest minds are being called on as part of a US$100million global search by Chinese city Shenzhen for industry innovators and entrepreneurs

Australia’s first start-up school targets school leavers as an alternative to university and gap...

Brett Whitford has launched Australia’s first startup school, EXCELinc. Viable -will be given $20,000 in seed funding and flown to Silicon Valley in 2016

Invoice2go raises another $15 million in Series C round led by Silicon Valley investors

Top mobile invoicing app launches Stripe integration to introduce simplest way for small businesses to get paid, reaches $1 billion in monthly invoices

Are you a tech start-up ready to conquer the US? This accelerator is looking...

KPMG Australia and Advance have launched the 2016 elevate61 accelerator, opening up applications to Aussie tech start-ups ready to conquer the US market.

Reppin’ Australia right: Meet the Melbourne tech start-up that won the US$50,000 grand prize...

An Aussie team of four from Melbourne tech start-up, AFTR scooped the championship title and grand prize of US$50,000 at Meet Taiwan’s Asia Super Team

Australasia’s first business accelerator for female founders launches in Wellington

Applications are open for Wellington based Lightning Lab XX, Australiasia's first ever female-founder business accelerator, kick offs on Women’s Day 2016

Nitro has acquired a Silicon Valley start-up to create “smart documents” [VIDEO]

Australian document productivity company, Nitro has acquired Silicon Valley start-up doxIQ, enhancing its document analytics technology.

A new census has revealed that Melbourne has great fintech potential

The first ever Fintech Census has revealed a strong and thriving community of financial tech companies in Victoria, with the results recently released. Fintech is...

The fear of failing at entrepreneurship shouldn’t stop you from having a go at...

Aussie entrepreneurs face many of the same huddles as their counterparts worldwide, with one unique addition: our deep-seated, psychological fear of failure

Huge growth on a small budget: Creative start-ups can make it big in less...

Many start-ups today are moving away from traditional marketing towards growth hacking. A trend that was adopted way back by marketers and innovators in the...

This is what governments and corporates can (and really should) learn from start-ups

Governments and corporates are increasingly being challenged by smaller, more agile start-ups, who are able to rapidly innovate and disrupt their industries

A new book looks at how Aussie companies can survive (and also thrive) in...

Tech lawyer Nick Abrahams' book, Digital Disruption in Australia looks at how companies can not only survive but also thrive in the next digital generation

Surviving after being hit by a drunk driver drove her to build a social...

Built by Ramona Pierson after surviving after being hit by a drunk driver, knowledge platform Declara, now availale as an app, has been praised by Obama.

Silicon Valley’s Lean Startup Methodology is coming to Australasia for the first time ever

Creative HQ is hosting LEAN 15, a conference on Lean Startup Methodology, coined by Silicon Valley entrepreneur Eric Ries, October 5th - 7th in Wellington

This former Google employee is opening a futuristic first-of-its-kind learning centre for HSC students...

A new Google-inspired HSC learning centre will open its doors today with a mission to train the brightest young minds in Sydney for stellar careers in science, medicine, mathematics and English courtesy of Richard Chua's Talent 100.

Four frustrated colleagues started this tech start-up to bring professional service businesses out of...

Christine Higgins, Eamonn Bell, Glenn Fowler and Geoff McQueen started AffinityLive out of frustration, to create integrated, cloud-based business-automation software for professional service businesses.
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New Zealand’s Xero eyes US IPO, further disruption as subscribers increase...

Xero recently held its annual meeting in Wellington, during which the company revealed some interesting details about its future. As has been widely suspected, the...

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