Community Leadership and Paying It Forward
The Perth Startup Community is vibrant and growing, but we haven’t seen a corresponding growth in the people willing to organise stuff.
The Perth Startup Community is vibrant and growing, but we haven’t seen a corresponding growth in the people willing to organise stuff.
Well, that’s a wrap for 2014, I guess… the festive season is upon us and life in Perth grinds to a halt while everyone heads to the bottle shop and beach (usually but not necessarily in that order)
Today we interview Adam Shaw who is the co-founder of a startup called Dressed that was launched in August 2014.
Innovation Bay is a unique network, that brings together extraordinary people passionate about innovation, entrepreneurship and technology. It has been running successfully in Sydney over the last 10 years, helping raise over $10m in seed investments. Go Capital founders Derek Gerrard and Geoff Pritchard are launching Innovation Bay in Perth in 2015 and are looking to replicate the same success here.
School for Social Entrepreneurs is a feature in the Perth startup community, teaching socially-minded people how to run socially-oriented businesses. Their 2015 incubator intake is open and taking recruits, so we put our hands up and asked some questions.
As your business scales, projects do the same, growing in complexity faster than even the many-headed mythological Hydra could handle. As Stephane Kasriel points out in his eBook Hire Fast & Build Things, efficient scaling can only occur when you develop independent teams to tackle and tame the various project aspects.
Lessons from a lawyer on how to avoid the start-up bust up and in turn avoid spending your savings and sanity on cleaning up the mess.
Muru-D are a Sydneyside accelerator that have shown a sporadic interest in the Perth startup community, and have partnered with Pollenizer before to bring us workshops and interesting stuff. They’re doing another free workshop this Thursday (4th December) at Spacecubed with Sam Birmingham going over the basics of Lean Startup.
Come along to the breakfast launch event to learn about Unearthed: A program to bring startup-style technology innovation to the resources sector.
Perth Startup Weekend #5 happened over the weekend of November 21st-23rd, here’s what happened:
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