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Sydney startup Get secures $3.4 million in funding, but this 23-year-old founder is in it for more than money

Social payment platform Get has raised $3.4 million in funding as it prepares to expand internationally, however the raise is also about get…

Startup News & Analysis| Stephanie Palmer-Derrien
Aussie VC investment is on the up again, but early-stage startups may be missing out: Report

Investment in Australian startups has increased for the fifth consecutive quarter, with $447.4 million ($US318 million) invested across 27 d…

Startup News & Analysis| Stephanie Palmer-Derrien

leadership, Startup Advice
“Zero tolerance for brilliant jerks”: Three easy habits to improve company culture and benefit your bottom line
Dominic Powell
Growth
Why Aussie startups fail to scale and how the local ecosystem can help
Colin McLeod
Startup News & Analysis
“One of the strongest blockchain communities in Australia”: NEM Foundation opens blockchain hub in Melbourne
Stephanie Palmer-Derrien
Startup News & Analysis
Bitcoin in your pocket: Singapore startup brings cryptocurrency into the physical realm
Stephanie Palmer-Derrien
Profiles, Startup Advice
How twins Emily and Sarah Hamilton grew beauty startup bellabox to 40,000 subscribers, and why they stopped that growth on purpose
Stephanie Palmer-Derrien
Startup Advice
The three questions Atlassian asks when doing performance management
Dominic Powell
Startup Advice
SheStarts documentary pulls back the curtain on life inside an accelerator: Here’s what we learnt (part one)
Stephanie Palmer-Derrien
Startup News & Analysis
Unconscious bias: Amazon forced to scrap machine learning recruitment tool because it didn’t like women
Stephanie Palmer-Derrien

Education

Tutoring startup Vygo raises $500,000 in seed funding for its app bringing the sharing economy to education
Stephanie Palmer-Derrien
Micro-learning startup Ed App secures $4 million from SafetyCulture to change workplace training around the world
Stephanie Palmer-Derrien
Learning startup GO1 raises $10 million in Series A funding, backed by Seek
Stephanie Palmer-Derrien
Ed-tech startup Intersective secures $90,000 grant from SA government to give international students a foot in the door
Stephanie Palmer-Derrien

Advice

How to create business success without a degree
Jana Matthews
“No bullshit”: Atlassian’s Dom Price shares four key ingredients for scaling a startup
Stephanie Palmer-Derrien
“People are greater than perks”: Why founders need to make sure their culture evolves as their startup does
Stephanie Palmer-Derrien
“Never stop fundraising”: How this recruitment startup raised $4.5 million without ever talking to a VC fund
Dominic Powell

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