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Simon Thomsen saw technology alter the news and publishing landscape

10 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Simon Thomsen is editor of Startup Daily and host of the Startup Daily show which airs on the business streaming service AusBiz.com.au. He is also ...

Camille Socquet-Clerc, Co-Founder & CEO - Bloom Impact Investing

06 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Bloom offers a mobile investing app allowing people to invest in a climate impact fund starting from $500."We have big dreams"...Camille tal...

Rohit Bhargava discusses the benefits of reshaping wholesale investor requirements

05 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Rohit Bhargava runs the podcast The Startup Playbook Podcast, where each week he interviews successful entrepreneurs, investors and industry experts. ...

Louise Nobes: Australian startup ecosystem needs to be brave enough to “think untraditionally”

03 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Louise Nobes is the founder and CEO of KIK Innovation, an organisation that aims to end youth unemployment through enterprise. Louise is also the foun...

Darren Winterford believes Australian Entrepreneurs would benefit from more networking

28 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Darren Winterford is the founder and CEO of EdApp, a mobile focused LMS (learning management system) which allows its users to create learning experie...

Craig Swann fears complacency may slow innovation

26 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Craig Swann is the Event Director for SouthStart, Australia’s first innovation impact festival which brings together entrepreneurs, technologists, c...

Serina Bird discusses her inspiration from Taiwan's startup ecosystem

21 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Serina Bird is the author of The Joyful Frugalista, a personal finance guide, and runs online courses on money and finance. She also founded The Joyfu...

Moira Were discusses what metrics companies can use to measure "good"

19 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Moira Were has been involved in many endeavors in the Australian startup ecosystem throughout her long career, with a focus on projects striving for s...

Tim Boyle sees a bias towards digital technologies in the ecosystem

14 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Tim Boyle is Director of Innovation & Commercialisation at ANSTO, Australia’s Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation. Tim is also the direc...

Bill Tai highlights the key similarities and differences between Silicon Valley and Australia

12 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Bill Tai is a global venture capitalist who is based in Silicon Valley and spends part of the year in Perth. Bill has been funding startups as a Ventu...

Rohan McDougall highlights the current risks to Western Australia's economy

07 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Rohan McDougall is the director of commercialisation at Curtin University, where his team work to identify business opportunities for new products and...

Kate Jones explains why the Tech Council of Australia was founded

05 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Kate Jones is the former Minister for Innovation in the Queensland government, and has spent the last 20 years of her life working in politics. Curren...

Kylie Frazer discusses some common causes co-founders separate

02 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Kylie Frazer is co-founder and partner of Flying Fox Ventures, an Australian investment firm with a focus on early stage tech companies. Flying Fox is...

James Tynan shares his unpopular views on startup accelerators

31 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

James Tynan is Principal at Square Peg, which is currently Australia’s largest independent Venture Capital firm with $1.6 billion under management a...

Pete Horsley explains why diversity is so important in the ecosystem

29 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Pete Horsley is the founder of Remarkable, a tech accelerator for early stage startups in the disability tech space. Starting his career as a landscap...

Mick Liubinskas: Australia's startup ecosystem would be stronger with a single city leading it

26 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Mick Liubinskas is the founder of Climate Salad, an organisation that aims to boost climate tech companies in Australia and New Zealand by providing t...

Pete Lead: "You have permission to be awesome and complete freedom to fail"

24 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Pete Lead is former Head of Programs at tech startup accelerator BlueChilli, the author of the The Startup Guide, a toolkit designed for startup found...

Alan Noble discusses the contrast between Silicon Valley and Australia in the 2000's

22 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Alan Noble is the founder of AusOcean, a not-for-profit organisation with the mission of helping the world’s oceans through technology. Alan also wo...

Terry Hilsberg discusses the earliest days of the startup ecosystem

19 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Terry Hilsberg is a co-owner and partner in Fork Ventures, an investment firm that primarily focuses its investments in crypto projects. Terry is also...

Emily Rich explains why taking "smart money" is often a better path

15 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Emily Rich is a co-founder and partner at M8 Ventures, a venture fund that focuses on investing in tech startups during their “pre-seed” stage. Em...

EP003 - How to sell complex products with John (JD) Dean

15 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Three key reasons why startups have long sales cycles:1) You're talking about your product far too much2) You don't understand the risk to the...

Peter Bradd discusses the expectation-shattering progress the ecosystem has made

12 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Peter Bradd was the founding director and initial CEO of Fishburners, one of Australia’s first coworking spaces which has been home to a community o...

Leslie Delaforce highlights the unique challenges facing Indigenous founders

10 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Leslie is the Indigenous Entrepreneurship Director at Minderoo Foundation, an Australian not-for-profit organisation seeking effective, scalable solut...

Anthony Ferrier offers his advice to startup founders

08 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Anthony Ferrier is an innovation and commercialisation specialist, primarily working within the intersection between startups and corporations. Anthon...

Colette Grgic explains why diversity is crucial

05 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Colette Grgic is Head of Startup Ecosystem in Australia and New Zealand at AWS (Amazon Web Service), a role which sees her leading a team that works t...

Zoe Piper wants to see more non-traditional career approaches

03 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Zoe Piper has been working at the intersection of industry, research and government for two decades, with a diverse and lengthy résumé. She is the f...

Phil Hayes-St Clair: "Take care of yourself"

01 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Phil Hayes-St Clair is co-founder and CEO of Drop Bio, a digital health company with a mission of accelerating the world’s transition to personalise...

Zrinka Tokic on the emergence of modern cloud tools

28 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Zrinka Tokic is the director of ThincLab, the University of Adelaide’s business incubator that has its headquarters in Adelaide but also has locatio...

David Burt explains why startups are essential to our standard of living

26 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

David Burt is the Director of Entrepreneurship at UNSW, where his team helps students, academics, staff and alumni turn their ideas into a startup. He...

Rachael Neumann explores the effects of the pandemic on startups

24 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Rachael Neumann is one of the founding partners of Flying Fox Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm backing startups in Australia and New Zeal...

Pete Cooper discusses Universities' role in the ecosystem

21 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Pete Cooper is a serial founder and mentor who has worked in a wide variety of roles in the technology startup space. He is Director of Cooper & C...

Anna Wright: why "fail fast" is the greatest advice

19 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Anna Wright is the CEO and co-founder of BindiMaps, a smartphone app that helps anybody find their way around complicated indoor spaces such as shoppi...

Chad Renando talks definitions of a strong ecosystem

17 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chad Renando is director of Startup Status, a not-for-profit which aims to help organisations that support entrepreneurs by mapping and measuring the ...

Annie Parker finds inspiration working with startup founders

13 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Annie Parker is a startup investor and advisor with 20+ years experience in the digital startup, technology and consulting sectors. Currently, Annie i...

Brendan Hill examines the war on talent in Australia

12 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Brendan Hill is an angel investor and startup mentor and advisor. He is Syndicate Lead at Logan and Wayne, a firm that invest in early stage tech star...

Lucinda Hartley discusses the barriers she overcame when starting out

10 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Lucinda Hartley is an urban strategist and serial entrepreneur. She is the co-founder of Neighbourlytics, a social analytics platform for neighbourhoo...

Baden U'Ren on the importance of teaching our youth entrepreneurship

07 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Baden U’Ren is an entrepreneurship educator and innovation professional who has worked in a variety of roles within the Australian startup ecosystem...

Daniel Flynn explains why leaders are learners

05 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Daniel Flynn is co-founder of Thankyou, a social enterprise that was founded in 2008 and sells consumer products to help end extreme poverty. In 2015 ...

Aaron Birkby discusses the gaps in the Australian startup ecosystem

03 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Aaron Birkby is the co-founder of The Unconventional Group, and has over two decades experience working as a founder, advisor, board member, investor ...

Mark Pesce discusses the organic growth of our ecosystem

31 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Pesce is the host of This Week In Startups Australia (TWISTA), a podcast which has charted the growth and maturity of Australia’s startup ecosy...

Malcolm Turnbull discusses innovation in the political sphere

29 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Malcolm Turnbull was the 29th Prime Minister of Australia between 2015 - 2018, in which time he launched the National Innovation and Science Agenda (N...

Jodie Fox highlights the contrasts between the Australian and US Ecosystems

27 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jodie Fox co-founded Shoes of Prey, an innovative shoe retail company which at its peak was a global business, with more than 200 staff, six million s...

James Alexander shares his thoughts on Governments' roles in startups

24 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

James Alexander is the co-founder of Galileo Ventures, which focuses on investing in young, first time startup founders. Prior to this, James founded ...

EP002 - Hiring and structuring sales teams with Will Bosma

23 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

3 quick tips from Will: 1) Structure your sales teams into vertical territories instead of geographical. Each vertical has its own jargon and if you’...

Susan Oliver discusses what investors look for in a founder

22 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

An Angel Investor and co-founder of multiple startup ventures, Susan Oliver has also served as a board member on over a dozen organisations in her lon...

Phil Morle explains the struggles that incubators often face

20 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Phil Morle is a Partner at Main Sequence Ventures, a venture capital firm founded by the CSIRO which invests in early stage technology companies with ...

Silvia Pfeiffer discusses her first startup and the lessons it taught her

17 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Silvia Pfeiffer is CEO of Coviu, a video telehealth company which provides software to healthcare providers. Originally from Germany, Silvia moved ...

Murray Hurps discusses the barriers to growth in the startup ecosystem

15 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Murray Hurps is the Director of Entrepeneurship at UTS, tasked with growing the number of student-founded startups coming out of the university. With ...

Rachel Yang explores diversity and social issues

13 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

With a background in management consulting and corporate finance, Rachel Yang is a partner at Giant Leap, Australia’s first venture capital fund whi...

Ian Gardiner discusses his passion for nurturing startup communities

10 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ian Gardiner is an Investment Partner at Jelix Ventures, a firm which invests in early stage tech startups in Australia and New Zealand, and a co-foun...

Nicole O'Brien: The startup ecosystem is overwhelmingly positive

08 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Nicole O’Brien is CEO of Fishburners, a not-for-profit co-working space and community hub for tech startup founders with a rich history of supportin...

Dean McEvoy on egos and startups

06 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dean McEvoy is a seasoned startup founder and angel investor, having founded three startups including Spreets.com, Australia’s first group buying si...

Georgie Turner discusses the next steps for Australia's ecosystem

03 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Georgie Turner is Principal at Tidal Ventures, a seed-stage focused venture capital investment firm which is based in Australia and has an office in t...

Colin Kinner discusses the key missteps first time founders often make

01 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Colin Kinner is founder and CEO of Startup Onramp, a training and mentoring program for first time startup founders. With a long history of entreprene...

Alan Jones: Can we talk about smartphones?

27 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

With experience founding and co-founding tech startups since 1995, Alan Jones is a veteran of Australia’s startup ecosystem. An angel investor and a...

Paul Bassat examines the evolution of the ecosystem

24 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

After practicing as a lawyer for six years, Paul Bassat co-founded Seek with his brother Andrew in 1997, which in 2005 was floated on the Australian S...

EP001 - Cold calling with Alex Rorris from K2X

22 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

3 quick tips for cold calls from Alex:1) Energy, tonality and confidence are super important when calling people you don't know.2) Get to the poin...

Melissa Widner discusses the huge progress of startups

22 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Melissa Widner is the CEO of Lighter Capital, an investment firm that is based in the US and launched in Australia in 2020. Their novel model involves...

Hamish Hawthorn discusses the evolution of the ecosystem

20 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hamish Hawthorn has been deeply involved in the development of the Australian startup ecosystem. A qualified mechanical engineer with postgraduate tra...

Peta Ellis on the importance of innovation

17 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Peta Ellis is the founder of EverydayEntrepreneur365.com.au, and an entrepreneur who’d founded 4 companies before 30, and has gone on to spend much ...

Alfred Lo compares startup ecosystems in different nations

15 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Alfred Lo is co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer at Harvest B, a tech startup developing a plant-based meat ingredient system. Previously Chief In...

Sarah Pearson on the importance of cooperation and competition

13 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Sarah Pearson has a wealth of experience from a wide variety of roles within the science, technology and startup sector. Previously Global Head of ...

Michael Batko discusses the four prevalent business models of accelerators

10 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Batko is the CEO of Startmate, an accelerator that has invested in 170+ startups across Australia and New Zealand with a collective portfolio ...

Julie Trell discusses the importance of diversity

08 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Julie Trell is an American woman who moved to Australia in 2017 to pursue two opportunities in the Australian startup ecosystem: working as head of th...

Peter Davison: All it takes is guts and a vision

06 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

With no experience but a lot of guts and vision, Peter Davison moved to Silicon Valley and started a Venture Capital firm with a friend in 1998. They ...

Maxine Sherrin discusses the importance of building a community of innovators

03 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Maxine Sherrin is the Program Director of Spark Festival, a not-for-profit festival that aims to grow entrepreneurship in Australia by bringing togeth...

Cameron Adams on the importance of community and connection

01 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Cameron Adams is a co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Canva, an online design platform with over 20 million users. After starting his own design ...

Lauren Capelin and the importance of nurturing diversity

30 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Lauren Capelin is a community strategist and disruptive innovation specialist passionate about the development and application of new business models,...

Bruce Tulloch on some of the key challenges the Australian startup ecosystem faces

27 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Bruce Tulloch is the co-founder and managing director of BitScope Designs, which creates IOT (Internet of Things) and cloud computing tools for indust...

Andrea Gardiner says disruptive, scalable tech startups are critical

23 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Andrea Gardiner is the founder of Jelix, an investment firm which focuses on early stage technology startups in Australia and New Zealand. In her conv...

Kate Cornick on ways to support Australians to begin their startup journey

23 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Kate Cornick is the CEO of LaunchVic, the Victorian Government’s initiative to accelerate startups and create new jobs in Victoria. Before taking th...

Cheryl Mack on building communities and her passion for supporting founders

23 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Cheryl Mack is passionate about supporting founders and has done so in a variety of roles over the years: as a mentor for programs including Startmate...

Niki Scevak is optimistic about Australia's future

23 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Niki Scevak has a long and diverse background in the Australian startup ecosystem. From his entrepreneurial beginnings co-founding two software compan...

The History of the Australian Startup Ecosystem

05 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

3 interviews will be released each week starting in January. The audio documentary that will tell the story of the Australian startup ecosystem will b...

Damien Mahoney from Stackla

23 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

SummaryHi, and welcome to day one, the podcast for regional startups and the organisations that support Australian entrepreneurship. Welcome to day on...

Antony Martin from Hone

16 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Show NotesSponsorWelcome to Day One is supported and the founder spotlights are made possible by our major sponsor the City of Newcastle’s Newihub.J...

Mike McKiernan from Deckee

02 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Show NotesSponsorWelcome to Day One is supported and the founder spotlights are made possible by our major sponsor the City of Newcastle’s Newihub.J...

Colin Goudie from Social Pinpoint

25 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Show NotesSponsorWelcome to Day One is supported and the founder spotlights are made possible by our major sponsor the City of Newcastle’s Newihub. ...

Ryan MacPherson from Coassemble

18 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Show NotesSponsorWelcome to Day One is supported and the founder spotlights are made possible by our major sponsor the City of Newcastle’s Newihub. ...

Innovation in Newy

11 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Show NotesSponsorWelcome to Day One is supported and the founder spotlights are made possible by our major sponsor the City of Newcastle’s Newihub.J...

Naomi Findlay the Renovation Queen

01 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Today I’d like to share with you the story of Naomi Findlay. Naomi is a remarkably hard-working woman with a ridiculous amount of active projects, a...

Monica Zarafu from BYKKO

01 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Today you’re going to hear the story of BYKKO and it’s founder Monica Zarafu.Born in Romania, Monica moved to Australia in two thousand and ten. M...

Melanie Mury from IMBY

23 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Meet Melanie Mury from IMBY (In My Backyard). IMBY operates in the proptech space (Property Technology) and is working to consolidate the development ...

Linda Bergskas fro m Visionise with Kara Armstrong

09 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Today you’re going to hear the story of Linda Bergskas and Visionise. Linda started Visionise, a full-service fashion branding service after she sol...

Becky Kiil from Newcastle Afoot

26 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode guest host Andy Jones goes on a walking tour with Becky Kiil, founder of Newcastle Afoot, a top rated walking tour and cultural experi...

Lauren & Cara from Your Food Collective

12 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Today I’d like to share with you the story of Your Food Collective. Your Food Collective is serving over 1400 people since they opening in 2017 at a...

Liam Scanlan from Eat Your Water

08 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Today you’re going to hear the story of Eat Your Water featuring Liam Scanlan.Before we go back to the beginning, here’s where we are today, Liam ...

Startmate - Featuring Michael Batko

24 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Today you’re going to hear the story of Startmate featuring the head of operations at Startmate, Michael Batko.Startmate is the leading tech acceler...

Alan 'The Nice One' Jones

27 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Today you’re going to hear from Alan Jones - The Nice One.Alan Jones is a startup entrepreneur, a mentor to other startup founders, and an angel inv...

Startup Muster - Featuring Murray Hurps & Maria MacNamara

13 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Today you’ll hear the story of Startup Muster through its founder Murray Hurps.Startup Muster is a report that produces the most comprehensive data ...

Yolanda Surjan from RadVet

29 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Today you’re going to hear the story of Yolanda Surjan from RadVet.Dr Yolanda Surjan is a senior lecturer of Radiation Therapy at the University of ...

Daniel & Alicia Edge from CompEAT Nutrition

30 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Today you’re going to hear the story of Alicia, Daniel and CompEAT Nutrition. The concept of CompEAT first planted itself in Daniel & Alicia’s...

Joss Kesby from Diffuse Energy

22 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Today you’re going to hear the story of Diffuse Energy and it’s founders Joss Kesby, James Bradley and Sam Evans.Diffuse Energy is a company that,...

Andrew Mears from SwitchDin

09 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Today you’re going to hear the story of Andrew Mears and SwitchDin. SwitchDin provides software and hardware solutions for managing distributed ener...

Jade Ryan from Cake Server

21 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Today you’re going to hear the story of Cake Server and Jade Ryan.Jade blew me away. Jade went to university to study structural engineering, became...

Heath Raftery from Newie Ventures

10 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Today you’re going to hear the story of Heath Raftery from Newie Ventures. Newie Ventures is an engineering agency. They build solutions to their cl...

S1 | E5 — Thomas Harding — Co-founder & CEO of Mish Guru on the future of Snapchat and Building a Remote Team

04 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Today we catch up with Tom Harding, Founder and CEO of Mish Guru, the startup leading the charge in helping brands effectively develop, monitor and mo...