It’s been an amazing ride, here’s reflections from StartInno’s 5 years as Byron Bay’s Startup and Innovation Hub, our Wins, our Fails and what’s next… #juststart
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Byron Bay tech startup helps first-time home buyers
Byron Bay based technology startup “realar™” has created an augmented reality app designed to help first time home buyers better visualise and experience off-the-plan homes.
We interviewed with Benjamin Chong, partner at venture capital firm Right Click Capital for The Australian about how Byron Bay is part of the regional startup movement known as Silicon Paddock.
Coworking is a global phenomena that is growing in maturity as an industry like never before. In most major towns and cities across Australia coworking spaces are opening up in their multiples to service the demands of people starting new businesses. So shat's next after Coworking? Local innovation The Kollective has an answer.
Announcing StartupAcademy.org
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Why Invest in Regional Innovation? Byron Bay: The Case for Regional Australia. The #ideasboom is looming and regions need to be part of the innovation agenda.
So with any Lean Enterprise should adopt a what I call a "Lean Relationship" principles. We Build > Measure > Learn our products and services and we can apply the same cyclical method to relationships.
The start-up business sector on the north coast says the Federal Government's innovation announcements will make people scream louder for the NBN.
Nov 20-22 was #StartupByron, the first Startup Weekend in Byron Bay and the Northern Rivers. The response from both the public and participants was simply, well, breathtaking.
Here's how we did.
Success in the business world can be measured in skill, talent, effort, time, dedication, power, money, passion, and much more. What success doesn’t rely on is gender. The future of entrepreneurship and enterprise belongs to women as equally as it does to men- but that’s not to say success is achieved any easier by one gender or the other. In this article, you’ll learn three useful tips on how to succeed in the business world as a female entrepreneur.
Craig O'Kane from UKTI Australia and New Zealand writes about his time in Byron Bay and attending July's Startup Academy Byron Bay. UKTI was a proud sponsor of this event and awarded the first prize to the Demo Day winner!
This week we have a guest blogger, Paul McKey, a business mentor at the studio. Paul is an artist, author and management consultant. Below he has articulated his research and experience of innovation and how it is developed and utilised in organisations.
Disruptive innovation is a term we hear on a daily basis. So many startups - especially tech enterprises - are talking about how their product is going to disrupt a market. After all, we are moving from an information age to creative age. But what is disruptive innovation exactly? Are all markets really on the edge of disruption?
We proudly present Choppy, Cofounder of Waveblade Sports Roller and graduate from our previous accelerator batch. Sports entrepreneur fanatic, always entertaining and very energetic.
He shares with us what made him join the program and what he got out of it.
Startup and innovation hub, StartInno, is now looking for new applicants for their Incubator and Accelerator programs on the back of the first success of their Start Up Academy Byron Bay.
We are moving from a corporation to a collaboration, sharing and networking economy. Technology makes it easier now than ever before to work mobile and independent, the possibilities are endless. So why not use it to your advantage?
Before you jump the gun to finding investors, your focus should be on talking to customers. The only way to prove your idea is even worth an investment is to sell your idea. Who are they? Where are they? Start selling what you have, get feedback and build on that.
A father and son from Byron Bay region have revolutionised an entire industry with their Flow beehive invention. A simple technique to harvest honey straight from the beehive without disrupting the hive.
It is the largest international crowdfunding campaign, raising over 10M US dollars and still counting.
Many startups fail from the get go by assuming "build it and they will come". Smoke testing instead is the first step in iteratively building something, by testing product assumptions even before the product is actually ready or even started.
This staged approach accelerates the learning process. It means testing the strength of an idea, get feedback, learn, iterate and test again. It allows you to build an audience in the process and generate awareness for your business.
A group of customers, usually the early adaptors, are given the opportunity to try your product and give feedback. It prevents building a product that your customers don’t want. The question here is: “if I would offer this product, would you buy it?”A smoke test begins by measuring one thing: whether customers are interested in trying a product. #juststart
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