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Investors want to know what is going on in the business they have invested into, and communicating frequently with them keeps them engaged and supportive.

From my experience your first startup is a bit like going to high school without having been to primary school – there are a lot of basics that you’re expected to be able to do

New laws require companies that experience any significant data breach to notify The Office of The Australian Information Commissioner and impacted clients.

Auckland-based SaaS platform Thematic today announced it has raised US$1.22 million in seed funding to continue its international growth.

The proportion of female founders has grown from 23.5 percent in 2016 to 25.4 percent this year, while 37 percent of future founders identified as female.

Despite the fact they predominantly serve customers across regional areas, agtech businesses are earning a name for themselves in the wider startup space.

Between investigative podcasts and interactive articles, the nature of the media is undergoing constant change, spurred on by the digital age. Media companies both niche and global are no stranger to this process, including the New York Times, an organisation which testing startup Optimizely helped make the leap from paper to online. According to Dan […]

Dan Siroker is the founder of Optimizely, the number one tech platform for testing and experimentation.

Looking back at my journey, there are many things I wish my 31 year old self had known then – many sleepless nights, heated arguments with my cofounder, and wasted energy and resources on things that were not worth it could have been avoided.

“It was so obvious the team was so much more excited about tackling this new problem that’s now Tayble than keep beating down the path of Deal Tap.”

Despite the fact the sector is stereotyped as younger, Startup Muster found once more that founders both present and future skew older.

Startup Glamazon is allowing its users to connect with on-demand beauty services and salons through a mobile app similar to Uber.

Founding Shop My Town was an act of desperation, watching small towns suffering on a wide scale. I was so frustrated with being unable to find my local shops online, as they couldn’t afford websites.

I’ve been in the Bay Area for almost two years and the biggest learning curve I see for Aussie founders centres on the business culture and the subtle, unwritten rules that exist in the tech industry here. One of the most nuanced cultural differences is around how to get and make introductions.

If you talk to most venture capitalists or authors of management books, I’d wager the majority of them would argue all day with you on one fundamental truth: thy should only have ONE chief executive in a startup.