On the threshold of a federal election, we hear from UTS Startups’ Murray Hurps, The Studio’s Chantal Abouchar, Web Directions’ John Allsopp and Unboxed’s Anne-Marie Elias about the policy questions and challenges facing Australia’s startup ecosystem.
Australian startup legend Mick Liubinskas likes to do things the hard way, so he moved to Silicon Valley to scale his skills as a startup entrepreneur – and shares what he’s learned.
Mick’s working on a new book: She’s Building a Robot — check it out!
He’s also just launched an AI Video Marketing tool here.
Four years ago Jason Calacanis charged us with creating the first international podcast worthy of his “This Week in Startups” branding.
In those four years Australia’s startup community has grown from strength to strength – and legendary angel investor Jason Calacanis joins us to launch series 6 of TWISTA with a wide-ranging conversation about what it takes to make it in the news business, how he grades each investment offer presented to him, why ICOs aren’t the end of angel investing – and how Australia can build upon its incredible startup success.
An interview 23 years in the making – on this episode of TWISTA!
Update 11 July 2018 – This morning INSIDE.COM announced it’s raising a round of funding to expand its operations – with Jason leading the round. Find out more here.
TWISTA speaks with legendary entrepreneur and angel investor Ian Gardiner (VIOCORP, Innovation Bay) about the state of the startup scene in Australia, then AirTasker founder and CEO Tim Fung talks about how his firm is revolutionizing the labour market.