A 54-hour, collaborative challenge for entrepreneurs will feature as the final event of the recently announced Enterprise Week. Supported by Google for Entrepreneurs and hosted at Joondalup’s co-working space sixty27, Startup Weekend Joondalup will provide hands-on experiences where established and aspiring entrepreneurs can find out if startup ideas are viable.
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Enterprise Week will officially kick off on Monday 4 August, providing the community with a weeklong event filled with tech talks, digital workshops, networking events and facility tours at Joondalup’s newest co-working space sixty27.
The procurement of a mortgage is normally the single largest financial transaction any person in Australia will ever transact. It involves negotiation with banks, brokers and solicitors and locks people into debt for a good proportion of their working life. It is stressful, difficult and intimidating. But there is light at the end of the tunnel. SwitchMyLoan.com.au may be the answer to people‘s prayers. A business that can alleviate a lot of the burden and tangibly make a difference in the lives of Australians.
Just like many other Australians, Aaron Howard doesn’t like to waste time mowing his lawn. But unlike most of us, he actually researched and came up with something that will do the mowing for him – Mobot, the robot that mows.
Governments collect and publish enormous amounts of data, but have limited resources to get it into the hands of their citizens in engaging ways. GovHack is an event to draw together people from government, industry, academia and of course, the general public to mashup, reuse, and remix government data. GovHack is about finding new ways to do great things and encouraging open government and open data.
YellowBanana connects Teachers & Learners around Australia
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Your startup has been going for a few years, and you are ready to hire a new wave of people. Do you rely on “house rules”?
Local Legend Stuart Hall has released the latest version of his popular AppBot utility, but this time expanded it to an entire suite of tools for app developers to use to improve customer communication.
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