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Accel 2021 Euroscape: On the path to global dominance?

Cracking the Code

To date, we’ve invested $7B+ in more than 300 companies globally and have worked with many exceptional cloud founders - from Australia to India, the US, Europe and Israel. We’ll also see the emergence of more low code / no code platforms that address specific vertical needs. For example, programmable avatars using a simple text editor.

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Born Global or Die Local – Building a Regional Startup Playbook

Steve Blank

I’m in Australia and just spent time with some great entrepreneurs in Melbourne. This group realized that Australia has a great reputation as one of the world’s best sporting nations. Creating a vertically oriented regional ecosystem is a pretty amazing accomplishment for any country or industry. Regional Ecosystems.

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The truth about FMCG in Australia

Start Up Blog

But few are faced with challenges as deep and far reaching as the FMCG industry in Australia. We can no longer buy an audience on demand. What I’d be doing if I was an FMCG company in Australia is investing all of my advertising investment in channel innovation – I’d move all that consumer money across.

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Paywalls, SEO, and the Need for a Damn Good Brand

ConversionXL

But, historically, they’ve undermined monetization—requiring crawler access that savvy users exploit and demanding free clicks for searchers. ca/) and Australia (independent.ie/au/). News is an especially challenging vertical since no site owns a newsworthy event. The Athletic, Cook’s Illustrated, Adweek) have paywalls, too.

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Taking Big Action – For The Big Dreamer

YoungUpstarts

Whether it’s as an Excel spreadsheet or going freehand on an A2 paper – give the following a try: In a vertical manner mark a start-line and a finish-line – with a large, blank gap in the middle. It’s a self-feeding cycle which constantly demands a balance to get your ambitions moving forward towards fulfilment. That’s fine.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

My parents did not wish to see me as struggling artists and thus I was enrolled in Bachelor of Business course in Australia. Since coming to Australia in 2004 my passion for creativity was further boosted and was well alive while still doing my business degree and working in corporate world until 2011. It just didn’t make sense.

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The curse of prevention

Startup Lessons Learned

It could be fixed by refactoring the code itself, or by partitioning the data horizontally or vertically, or by adding additional capacity at the point of the bottleneck, or by shaping end-user demand, or even by removing the feature itself. Take your typical scalability bottleneck. Take your typical scalability bottleneck.