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This is your chance to find out how  Jane Lu of Show Pony Fashion, Catherine Eibner of Microsoft (yep that's me!) and Fiona Anson of Hire Me Up  are each using social media to grow their businesses and profiles and how startups can make best use of Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms....

I was fortunate enough to attend the Global Entrepreneur Acceleration Program (GEAP) in Bilbao Spain a few months ago and one of the most amazing things that came out of the event was the calibre of the mentors that were brought in to talk to the participants. Doug Solomon gave a session on the importance...

The first inaugural Microsoft BizSpark Asia Pacific (APAC) Summit is happening in Sydney on Tuesday, 10th July 2012 at Ballroom B, Sydney Convention Centre, Darling Harbour. Registration and full details of the agenda and speakers a http://www.microsoft.com/BizSpark/NewsAndEvents/APACSummit2012.aspx...

After great feedback from our first Sydney BizSpark Networking Meetup , great response to nest Monday's Melbourne BizSpark Networking Meetup with Domenic Carosa , I am now excited to confirm the details for Brisbane’s first BizSpark Networking Meetup : On June 20 th 2012 we are kicking off our first...

I am always happy when I find a company that can offer additional help & support to the companies we have in our BizSpark program here in Australia – and that’s exactly what happened when I met with Joe Seisdedos of Wrays. "IT startups have great ideas and technologies but they commonly find...

As Domenic gets ready to launch his new Incubator in Richmond, Melbourne we have decided to work together to have one of our First Melbourne BizSpark Meetup Events at the new space. Domenic Carosa is Executive Chairman of Internet investment firm Future Capital. In his session you will learn how to raise...

Announcing the Australian BizSpark Networking Meetups ! These meetups are a way for BizSpark companies to come together to network, share stories and get to come together to hear advice from experts and specialists. We are going to be hosting these initially in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne – but if...

What is Convict Interactive? Convict Interactive is an Independent Game Development Studio based in Wollongong, Australia. Each full-time member is either a current student or ex-student of the University of Wollongong (UoW). We are all very passionate about creating video games that concentrate on high...

  Applications close TODAY!. Here's a few last minute hints from the AngelCube team.     Thanks for your    interest in AngelCube, Melbourne's #1 startup accelerator. A big thank-you to all the teams that applied so far, and a friendly reminder to those still interested...

Focus: How to make it as a Start-up in Queensland In the lead up to the launch of our Microsoft Innovation Centre in Queensland we are hosting an industry forum with some of the most influential members and leaders of the Start-Up community in Queensland. Come and spend a lunchtime session on March 28...

Geoff McQueen is an Aussie Entrepreneur who recently made the shift to San Francisco to base his Startup AffinityLive, a startup that solves the problem of managing work for service-based companies. Affinity Live just got featured in TechCrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/29/affinitylive-debuts-to...

Today I am honoured to have a guest post that s a little bit different. It’s from a female non technical founder, who shares her experiences as a “Mumpreneur” as she worked towards launching her Business Art Buds. I met Anna when I presented at the Social Media Women event last year, and am particularly...

Jason Cartwright, the founder of BizSpark startup Contructiv has written this post (also listed on his blog ) about some of the lessons he has learnt with the first year of starting his business Contructiv. Thanks Jason for sharing the good the bad & the ugly of this first 12 months! The idea Just...

      Capital Raising for your business Webinar by Domenic Carosa from Future Capital - brought to you by Microsoft                 Join us for a Webinar on December 7th Domenic Carosa is Executive Chairman of Internet investment firm Future Capital...

Gary & the team at IMC have sponsored the last two Startup Weekend Events and are a fantastic support to our many startups in BizSpark. Gary has kindly put together the below advice on the Funding support available to Startups in Australia. Innovation Management Consultants Pty Ltd (IMC) is a professional...

BUSINESS-PLAN-IN-1-DAY (Sydney): Create your own 40-page, Investor Grade business plan in one day. Need to raise capital, get a grant, get a loan or just work out where you are going?! Get it done in one-day at this incredible, dynamic event! (76 business builders can’t be wrong!)  http://www.antmart...

While I was away I got this very exciting news in my inbox I am now planning a trip down to Melbourne to attend the awards!  I think its a fantastic example of why you should take the time to nominate your company for awards – as the extra visibility will be invaluable! I now also have the below...

As I mentioned I have had a bit of time off work (and this project) while recovering from a little accident I had last Tuesday. I got back into things again today and so have a few things to report on today. My biggest concern at the moment is that my week off has meant that the Phone 7 version is way...

Just a quick post to mention why I have been  offline for a few days. One of the hardest lessons I learnt when I ran my own business was that you needed to be sure to take time to look after yourself and keep yourself healthy. In fact something seemingly small can send your business off the rails...

So here we are a good week and a half into this little project and I think it’s a good time to take a few moments to reflect on the feedback I have been receiving from so many of you and to give some guidance on where we are heading as there has been so much positive feedback & suggestions on ways...

Throughout the series of posts on this project to date, I have made mention several times about my plans to follow a lean methodology with the Picknic App. I realised that what I hadn't done was fully delve into explaining what this means in terms of business and particularly in relation to a startup...

Today I swapped my other hats for me developer hat for a few hours. As I have volunteered to do the data setup on Azure & the Phone 7 application development. As I have all my data & use cases now defined it was quite simple to ensure the data structure was set up in Azure. next I decided to...

Accounting Setup It is something I should have done from the very start – as I am clearly outlaying some cash & am not accurately tracking it. I know many companies will use simple solutions like an excel sheet to track their incoming & outgoing expenses. I have always been a MYOB user, but also...

Today was mostly focused on back end developments but 2 key milestones were reached: 1. Our Launch page was made finally live (my own fault on that one as I corrupted the DNS completely! So after a 48 hour (self caused) delay we now have a launch page tied to MailChimp to allow us to recruit potential...

Things really got interesting today! I received the first delivery of the data from my researcher. This means I can now setup my Azure tables and data access layer. I plan on making the data accessible via oData feeds as well as via web services. I use a nifty little tool called Cerebrata Cloud Storage...