Brand Honee looks to sweeten crowdsourced branding
Launching a film competition on an unsightly subject inspired Laurence Wolf to create a local online video competitions website.
bootstrappr
From boom to bust, from unconference to BarCamp and beyond, Mahesh Sharma tracks the fortunes of Australia's startup community.
Mahesh Sharma
Australian-born, Bangalore-based Mahesh Sharma is ZDNet's India correspondent.
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It's open season on entrepreneurs
Start-up hunters have set their traps — networking events, accelerators, and hobby weekends. They wait for their eager and naive prey to take the juicy bait: to ditch their dreary lives for the fame and riches that only a start-up can offer.
99 problems but a design ain't one
99designs strengthened its claim as the world's number one purveyor of crowdsourced logo competitions by acquiring German rival 12 Designers, but the quest for global domination has created enemies and taken casualties.
Look before you code
CultureAmp's makers quickly found out that it isn't enough to build a product and hope that customers will see the benefit in using it; instead, the product has to meet the needs of the market.
The man who tamed Australia's wild (web) west
The recent launch of VC firm Blackbird Ventures caps the two-year rise to power of Startmate founder Niki Scevak.
Breaking the cycle of start-up welfare
Can you really complain about a lack of government start-up support in Australia?
Re-engineering serendipity
It's OK to change the direction of your start-up, says Roamz founder Jonathan Barouch, who has decided to recreate his app from scratch.
How ScriptRock caught Peter Thiel
In Silicon Valley, the time from failure to success can be fleeting.
Doing what you know
Adioso co-founder Tom Howard lives and breathes Australian start-ups, but will his own start-up succeed?
Love lifts start-up returns
Playing to the market won't make a great start-up, but a passion for your idea will.