Startups

Internal innovation is hard work — almost too hard.The larger an organization is, the more bureaucracy and red tape to cut through.The larger an organization is, the more likely its talent will be predisposed to managing what is now than discovering what is next.As such, internal innovation efforts often consume a lot of time, a lot of money, and don’t often deliver a worthwhile return on investment.What if there was a cheaper, faster, and more effective way to help your organization grow?

Building Trust through Transparent Employment Contracts in Startup Hiring and Resignations

Iskra Stojanovska

Employment agreements are an essential part of the hiring process, a must-have for the HR industry and for the employees as well.

10 Tools You Need to Run A Startup or Early Stage Venture Successfully in 2023

Atreyee Chowdhury

50% of all businesses start at home. Small businesses are relatively easy to start but entrepreneurs often face challenges in keeping the business up and running. They often end up focusing on only one or few aspects of the business and make rookie mistakes owing to their inexperience. Having a well-rounded setup for your business is the first step to stabilizing it and operating in a proactive manner. Here are the most useful tools you need to find success in 2033. They cover everything from management to communication to help you create a comprehensive business structure. Read on to know more.

How Much of a Loan Can a Startup Business Get?

Christine Parker

Are you wondering which lending option can give you enough money for your business?

How Startups Are Affected By Bad Finances, Debt Management, And Low Credit Scores

Steven Murray

Credit is essential for any business because it enables you to buy inventory, even out your cash flow, and ensure your operations run smoothly. Without a loan, you may have to postpone buying inventory, making repairs, or paying employee salaries which can help your business in the long term.

4 Brands Using NFTs to Unlock New Revenue Streams

FL - Steve Glaveski - BD

You’ve no doubt heard a lot about NFTs or non-fungible tokens by now. If for whatever curious reason you haven’t, they’re essentially a form of digital goods that can be purchased and traded online, much like art is traded in the real world. A number of brands are now realizing the brand and revenue-building potential of NFTs.

Can Acquired Companies Keep Their Cool?

Is it possible for a large corporate behemoth to acquire a small, independent company, without losing the essence of what made it great in the first place?

Seven LegalTech Startups to Join Allens Accelerator

Auctus - Allens Legal Accelerator was launched to offer innovators and entrepreneurs from Australia and around the world the opportunity to develop their ideas and solve real business challenges with the backing of Allens' expertise and support.

The Hallmarks of a Successful Entrepreneur

Rebecca Lee

Entrepreneurship is a rare thing. Not everyone will have the diverse combination of traits and skills that make a successful entrepreneur - one who is dedicated to their innovations, with resolute persistence and passion that sets them apart from the competition and brings their ideas to life.

Running a Zoom Workshop? Here’s What You Need to Know

8 lessons that will make your transition to online workshops a little easier.

Why Your Company Probably Runs Like C.RA.P.

The eight hour workday is just one of the hallmarks of the industrial revolution that still characterises the modern company.

How a Culture of Experimentation Helped Us Survive COVID-19

COVID-19 has served as a wake-up call to leaders everywhere.

Mapping the user journey to design more memorable moments

The year was 2012 and like many young working professionals, I caught the startup itch. Rather than just talking about ideas, I decided to actually execute on one of them.

How To Reach Your Goals Faster with Isaac Newton’s Laws of Motion

Nature can answer our biggest questions and help us navigate our most difficult struggles.

Why High Trust Companies Win — and How to Cultivate Trust

Only 15 per cent of employees worldwide are engaged by their jobs — that is, only 15 per cent are emotionally invested in delivering on their organisation’s mission.

Most Zoom Calls are a Waste of Time

It took a global pandemic for organisations to finally embrace remote work at scale.

The Optimism Bias — Don’t Let it Kill You

Optimism — a mental attitude reflecting a belief or hope that outcomes will be positive.

13 Tips to Crush Working From Home During COVID-19

Our behaviour is often a by-product of our immediate environment.

Culture is What People Do, Not Just What Policies Say

Recently, my company was engaged by a large telecommunications provider to perform an innovation assessment.

Cold Calling is NOT Dead — 5 Reasons to Pick Up The Phone

Cold calling is dead.Or at least that’s what I was lead to believe — until recently.

How 3 Councils Connected With Over 200 Quality Startups in Less Than 3 Months

The general public does not commonly view councils as being fast-moving or innovative.

Use Surrogate Goals To Maintain Your Team’s Motivation

When we embark upon a long, audacious journey, such as building an entrepreneurial venture, our over-arching goal might be several years into the future.

Creativity is Having Many At Bats

Customized baseball bats, personalized shampoo and dog food formulated for individual dogs — these were just some of the ideas that Netflix co-founder, Marc Randolph, pitched to Reed Hastings, before coming upon the idea that would eventually become the streaming service we all know and love today.

Your Team Size Don’t Impress Me Much

Human beings are social animals.

Corporate Procurement is Killing Startup Innovation

Speed is absolutely fundamental to innovation.

How Your Organization Should Partner With Startups and Scale-Ups

You might already know that more than 50% of today’s S&P500 faces replacement in the next 10 years. A lesser known fact is that one in three listed companies are at risk of being de-listed in the next five years alone.

What Large Companies Can Learn from the Rise of China

For two hundred years China was considered an economic basket case; its population resigned to a life of poverty among the rice fields.

Singapore’s NTUC Income Scouting Australian Startups

It is no secret. Organisations are investing heavily in both finding and partnering with startups to drive innovation.

10 Rules for Maintaining Energy and Enthusiasm for Anything

So many entrepreneurs get excited when they start something but their investment and energy tapers off once that initial buzz wears off.

Singapore’s NTUC Income Continues Partnership with Collective Campus to Identify and Work with Startups

NTUC Income (Income) engaged Collective Campus in 2018 to scout startups across Australia and New Zealand to solve two business problems.

How to Be Half as Busy and Twice as Productive (and Effective!)

As Warren Buffett put it, “the difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.”

10 Startups in Southeast Asia You Should Know About

The startup activity in Southeast Asia is currently booming with deals on track to hit record numbers in 2017. Over 500 deals are expected by the end of this year, following an impressive 2016 that resulted in 347 deals.

5 Overnight Success Stories

Overnight successes are usually anything but. In most cases, what appears to be a sudden rise to prominence is often the the manifestation of years of frustration, trial and error and time spent honing one’s craft.

The Top 10 Company Pivots of All-Time

While there’s much talk emanating out of Silicon Valley nowadays that “pivot is the new fail”, when the term first gained popularity off the back of the lean startup movement in the early 2010s it effectively meant making a fundamental shift in your business model, based on customer learnings, towards one that is designed to bring you closer to product market fit.

8 Ways Corporates Can Engage Startups To Drive Innovation

Large organisations are engaging startups in growing numbers, due in part to a realisation that companies have not been built to respond to the accelerating pace of change in a timely manner, and that short of restructuring the entire organisation from the ground up, partnering with startups who are unencumbered by bureaucracy, short-term shareholder demands and employee incentives, is an easier way to tap into emerging technologies, business models and talent.

Partnerships: Corporates are from Venus, Startups are from Mars

Corporate startup partnerships represent a massive clash of cultures. There are countless platforms that corporates can leverage to connect with startups such as Crunchbase, Angelist, Startup List and Gust. Add to this meet-ups, pitch nights, conferences, blogs and social media all making it easier than ever to identify and connect with startups doing compelling things in your industry or adjacent industries. What’s really lacking is a roadmap on how to work with startups.

Corporate Startup Partnerships 101

A roadmap to effectively partnering with startups.

How to Identify Synergies between Corporates, Startups and Spin-offs

It’s been well documented by the likes of Steve Blank and Clayton Christensen that if you want explore disruptive innovation in a large company, you have to either redesign or create parallel processes, systems and values internally in order up to support behaviours critical to innovation

10 Strategies For Changing Company Culture... To Infinity and Beyond!

Lawrence Levy was CFO of Pixar from Toy Story through to Monsters Inc. Uncover 10 key insights on corporate innovation and culture change.

How Legal Teams Can Enable Corporate Innovation

Corporate legal and compliance (L&C) teams can enable corporate innovation.

7 Fintech Companies from the UK to look out for in 2017

Daniel Nikolin

Last week I had the pleasure of attending Startup Bootcamp’s Fintech Demo Day in London.

Legal Innovation: The Mills Oakley Accelerator Pitch Night

The Mills Oakley Accelerator has been established to commercialise legaltech.

Legal Services & Tech Disruption in Australia

Legal services are delivered is changing due to technology and business model innovation.

Announcing the Mills Oakley Accelerator

Mills Oakley is launching Asia-Pacific's first Legal Startup accelerator.

LaunchVic Gives the Nod to Lemonade Stand and Victorian Childpreneurs!

The team at Lemonade Stand are proud to announce that we have successfully secured $100,000 as part of LaunchVic's $6.5m first round of funding allocations.

Why You Should Disrupt Yourself - and How I Did

I had the pleasure of interviewing Whitney Johnson, author of Disrupt Yourself, and formerly co-founder of Rose Park Advisors alongside Clayton Christensen, way back when in episode #13 of Future Squared.

Kill Your Ego

This blog is about your ego, and why you should kill it.

Why Engaging Startups can Drive Corporate Innovation Initiatives

I recently caught up with Kmart Australia’s innovation program manager, Fabio Oliveira, on my podcast for a discussion on innovation in retail and what the ‘store of the future’ might look like.

Innovation in Local Government

This eBook explores why councils need to change, and what they could be doing to not only maintain relevance but provide greater value to their communities.

Innovation in Sports ebook

In this ebook, we bring you an overview of the history of professional sports, how technology and business model innovations are changing the game, and what organisations can do to best adapt to these changes.

How to Partner with Startups and Scale-Ups ebook

In this ebook, we provide an overview of innovation metrics so that you can measure and manage innovation and support the exploration of emerging technologies, ideas and business models without compromising your core business.

How to Partner with Startups and Scale-Ups email course

In this email course, we provide an overview of innovation metrics so that you can measure and manage innovation and support the exploration of emerging technologies, ideas and business models without compromising your core business.

Innovation in Retail 2019

This ebook provides readers with an overview of what is happening in the space of retail innovation, and guidance for executives looking to avoid said filing, and not only survive but thrive well into the future.

Corporate Startup Partnerships 101

This ebook provides an overview for executives at large organisations on how to identify, connect with and successfully partner with startups.

Lean Canvas

The Lean Canvas is designed for entrepreneurs seeking to validate their idea. Leveraging parts of the Business Model Canvas, as well as the underlying principles of Lean Startup methodology, the Lean Canvas helps users de-risk their idea as quickly as possible. Developed by Ash Maurya, the Lean Canvas empowers entrepreneurs by enabling as much learning as possible. Maurya sees the Lean Canvas as a "grounds-up tactical plan or blueprint that guides the entrepreneur as they navigate their way from ideation to building a successful startup."

Business Model Canvas

The Business Model Canvas gets innovators to think intimately about the key business model elements in an effort to define, understand and test key assumptions. This supports the development of virtual prototypes and minimum viable products to rapidly test assumptions, increase the speed of learning and iterate towards product market fit. The canvas, in its original form, was first published by Alex Osterwalder, author of Business Model Generation.

Value Proposition Board

The Value Proposition Canvas gets innovators to think intimately about the customer jobs-to-be-done, pain points and desired gains. This develops an explicity understanding of customer value creation, helps innovators design products and services that customers will want and supports marketing and business development activities. The canvas, in its original form, was first published by Alex Osterwalder, author of Value Proposition Design.

Validation Board

96% of startups fail. It's not because they build products that don't work. Rather, it's because they build products that nobody wants! The startups that succeed are those that define the key make or break assumptions underlying their business model, create experiments and pass/fail metrics and get out of the building to test their assumptions using real people. Speed and making as many changes based on validated learnings as possible before running out of resources is imperative to success. Before you do this though, make sure you've completed your business model canvas first.

Find more resources

Innovation in Local Government

This eBook explores why councils need to change, and what they could be doing to not only maintain relevance but provide greater value to their communities.

Innovation in Sports ebook

How to Partner with Startups and Scale-Ups ebook

How to Partner with Startups and Scale-Ups email course

Innovation in Retail 2019

Corporate Startup Partnerships 101

This ebook provides an overview for executives at large organisations on how to identify, connect with and successfully partner with startups.

Lean Canvas

Business Model Canvas

Value Proposition Board

Building Trust through Transparent Employment Contracts in Startup Hiring and Resignations

Iskra Stojanovska

Employment agreements are an essential part of the hiring process, a must-have for the HR industry and for the employees as well.

10 Tools You Need to Run A Startup or Early Stage Venture Successfully in 2023

Atreyee Chowdhury

How Much of a Loan Can a Startup Business Get?

Christine Parker

Are you wondering which lending option can give you enough money for your business?

How Startups Are Affected By Bad Finances, Debt Management, And Low Credit Scores

Steven Murray

4 Brands Using NFTs to Unlock New Revenue Streams

FL - Steve Glaveski - BD

Can Acquired Companies Keep Their Cool?

Is it possible for a large corporate behemoth to acquire a small, independent company, without losing the essence of what made it great in the first place?

Seven LegalTech Startups to Join Allens Accelerator

The Hallmarks of a Successful Entrepreneur

Rebecca Lee

Running a Zoom Workshop? Here’s What You Need to Know

8 lessons that will make your transition to online workshops a little easier.

Why Your Company Probably Runs Like C.RA.P.

The eight hour workday is just one of the hallmarks of the industrial revolution that still characterises the modern company.

How a Culture of Experimentation Helped Us Survive COVID-19

COVID-19 has served as a wake-up call to leaders everywhere.

Mapping the user journey to design more memorable moments

The year was 2012 and like many young working professionals, I caught the startup itch. Rather than just talking about ideas, I decided to actually execute on one of them.

How To Reach Your Goals Faster with Isaac Newton’s Laws of Motion

Nature can answer our biggest questions and help us navigate our most difficult struggles.

Why High Trust Companies Win — and How to Cultivate Trust

Only 15 per cent of employees worldwide are engaged by their jobs — that is, only 15 per cent are emotionally invested in delivering on their organisation’s mission.

Most Zoom Calls are a Waste of Time

It took a global pandemic for organisations to finally embrace remote work at scale.

The Optimism Bias — Don’t Let it Kill You

Optimism — a mental attitude reflecting a belief or hope that outcomes will be positive.

13 Tips to Crush Working From Home During COVID-19

Our behaviour is often a by-product of our immediate environment.

Culture is What People Do, Not Just What Policies Say

Recently, my company was engaged by a large telecommunications provider to perform an innovation assessment.

Cold Calling is NOT Dead — 5 Reasons to Pick Up The Phone

Cold calling is dead.Or at least that’s what I was lead to believe — until recently.

How 3 Councils Connected With Over 200 Quality Startups in Less Than 3 Months

The general public does not commonly view councils as being fast-moving or innovative.

Use Surrogate Goals To Maintain Your Team’s Motivation

When we embark upon a long, audacious journey, such as building an entrepreneurial venture, our over-arching goal might be several years into the future.

Creativity is Having Many At Bats

Your Team Size Don’t Impress Me Much

Human beings are social animals.

Corporate Procurement is Killing Startup Innovation

Speed is absolutely fundamental to innovation.

How Your Organization Should Partner With Startups and Scale-Ups

What Large Companies Can Learn from the Rise of China

For two hundred years China was considered an economic basket case; its population resigned to a life of poverty among the rice fields.

Singapore’s NTUC Income Scouting Australian Startups

It is no secret. Organisations are investing heavily in both finding and partnering with startups to drive innovation.

10 Rules for Maintaining Energy and Enthusiasm for Anything

So many entrepreneurs get excited when they start something but their investment and energy tapers off once that initial buzz wears off.

Singapore’s NTUC Income Continues Partnership with Collective Campus to Identify and Work with Startups

NTUC Income (Income) engaged Collective Campus in 2018 to scout startups across Australia and New Zealand to solve two business problems.

How to Be Half as Busy and Twice as Productive (and Effective!)

As Warren Buffett put it, “the difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.”

10 Startups in Southeast Asia You Should Know About

5 Overnight Success Stories

The Top 10 Company Pivots of All-Time

8 Ways Corporates Can Engage Startups To Drive Innovation

Partnerships: Corporates are from Venus, Startups are from Mars

Corporate Startup Partnerships 101

A roadmap to effectively partnering with startups.

How to Identify Synergies between Corporates, Startups and Spin-offs

10 Strategies For Changing Company Culture... To Infinity and Beyond!

Lawrence Levy was CFO of Pixar from Toy Story through to Monsters Inc. Uncover 10 key insights on corporate innovation and culture change.

How Legal Teams Can Enable Corporate Innovation

Corporate legal and compliance (L&C) teams can enable corporate innovation.

7 Fintech Companies from the UK to look out for in 2017

Daniel Nikolin

Last week I had the pleasure of attending Startup Bootcamp’s Fintech Demo Day in London.

Legal Innovation: The Mills Oakley Accelerator Pitch Night

The Mills Oakley Accelerator has been established to commercialise legaltech.

Legal Services & Tech Disruption in Australia

Legal services are delivered is changing due to technology and business model innovation.

Announcing the Mills Oakley Accelerator

Mills Oakley is launching Asia-Pacific's first Legal Startup accelerator.

LaunchVic Gives the Nod to Lemonade Stand and Victorian Childpreneurs!

The team at Lemonade Stand are proud to announce that we have successfully secured $100,000 as part of LaunchVic's $6.5m first round of funding allocations.

Why You Should Disrupt Yourself - and How I Did

Kill Your Ego

This blog is about your ego, and why you should kill it.

Why Engaging Startups can Drive Corporate Innovation Initiatives