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Ben Sand (muru-D) confirmed for Techboard 2016

16/11/201616/11/2016 Peter van Bruchem Leave a comment

We are pleased to announce that Ben Sand, Entrepreneur in Residence from muru-D is going to be guest speaker at Techboard 2016. Ben will be giving the eGroup forum presentation and will be sharing stories from his entrepreneurial journey. Ben is a graduate from Y Combinator, Co-founder of Meta and helped build a holographic computer, raise $23M Series A and build the foundation for the $50M Series B. Ben is also one of the speakers at The Ozapps WestTechFest.

Techboard 2016 is on 6 December 2016. For more information and to Register for Techboard 2016 click here.

For more info on Ozapps click here.

The Techboard Team

Techboard 2016 is on 6 December 2016

09/11/201601/12/2016 Peter van Bruchem Leave a comment

Techboard 2016 is coming up next month as part of the OzApps West Tech Fest on the evening of Tuesday 6 December 2016 and will be brought to you by Techboard and our event partners, the Egroup and sponsored by BDO

The event will include:

eGroup Forum presentation from Ben Sand, Entrepreneur in Residence muru-D;

A panel session on Funding for Australian startups from a Western Australian perspective (more on this session here); and

The Techboard 2016 Awards – a celebration of highest ranking listed and unlisted startups from the combined scores from our Startup Rankings over the last 12 months. As we did last year we will again be having a Community award for an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to Startups in Perth voted on by the startup community.

The ATO’s view of Crowdfunding and Tax

07/11/201610/05/2017 Peter van Bruchem Leave a comment

This article by Mark Pollock and Sherif Andrawes from our friends BDO and was first published here.

Crowdfunding is gaining huge popularity across the globe. In Australia interest in the various forms of crowdfunding is increasing rapidly. Soon we may catch up with the rest of world which means that our tax and corporate legislation will need to catch up too.

Crowdfunding Legislation

Expectations were high earlier this year as Australia appeared poised to enact legislation to improve the environment for equity sourced crowdfunding. However in the midst of election chaos the Bill lapsed at dissolution in the Senate. At the time there did appear to be broad support to move forward on equity sourced crowdfunding legislation. We should hear more on that later this year.

There has, however, been some progress in tax legislation. The ATO has recently released details on its current view on the tax implications of crowdfunding arrangements with the promise that as the industry expands and new developments arise, they will continue to review and update the information.
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Raising the profile of your startup as part of the capital raising process

04/11/201621/02/2017 Peter van Bruchem Leave a comment

We are pleased to report that a blog post by Techboard co-founder Peter van Bruchem was published by our friends at Capital Pitch. In the piece Peter highlights the importance of startups investing time in raising their profile even before they are ready to raise capital. Read the post on Capital Pitch’s blog.

Win an award that says something about YOU

03/11/201607/12/2016 Peter van Bruchem Leave a comment

This week's guest blogger is Charlie Gunningham, CEO of Techboard's major Western Australian distribution partner, Business News. Before working at Business News Charlie founded his own startup Aussiehome.com which Charlie sold to REIWA.

When I ran my tech startup, back in the 2000s, I found that one of the best ways to promote my business was to win awards. I had little money for marketing, and found the editorial coverage and PR advantages from award winning immensely powerful.

When our business was a fragile 6 month old we won the ‘Best E-Commerce Innovation’ award at the grand sounding (but now defunct) WA Asia-Pacific IT&T Awards.

Startup Weekend is on next week, and tickets are selling out fast!

27/10/201627/10/2016 Peter van Bruchem Leave a comment

Startup Weekend is a global grassroots movement of entrepreneurs who are learning the basics of founding startups and launching successful ventures. All Startup Weekend events follow the same basic model: anyone is welcome to pitch their startup idea and receive feedback from their peers. Teams organically form around the top ideas and then it’s a 54 hour frenzy of business model creation, coding, designing, and market validation. The weekends culminate with presentations in front of local entrepreneurial leaders with another opportunity for critical feedback.

Startup Weekend takes place at Spacecubed in the CBD on November 4th-6th. The event’s judges have just been announced:

Kate Raynes-Goldie is a future oriented thinker, game designer, researcher and innovator. Kate has won multiple international awards for her work, including WAITTA Incite’s Achiever of the Year 2015/2016.

Matt Birney became Opposition Leader in WA at age 35, and later founded the Bulls N Bears ASX release distribution platform. Matt was appointed as a director of Perth Racing and the 500 Club and as a director of Cannings Purple, the largest public relations firm in WA.

Charlie Gunningham is passionate about innovation, transformation, startups and helping businesses make the most of the power of digital. He cofounded aussiehome.com and is CEO of Business News.
Matthew MacFarlane is a venture capital investor and tech entrepreneur. Matthew is cofounder and Director of Yuuwa Capital and on the board of AEGIC, iCetana and Agworld.

Visit http://www.swperth.org/ to sign up.

Morning Startup M2K Party

18/10/201618/10/2016 Peter van Bruchem Leave a comment

Last Friday Night Morning Startup held a great party at the Claisebrook Design Community. Techboard was pleased to present a panel session on the night comprised of founders of companies who have topped Techboard’s fortnightly startup ranking.

A big thank you to the Panelists:

Marc Berryman from Rhinohide,

Sue Bahn from Tap into Safety

Anthony Manning Francis from Gigger,

Geoff Pocock from Hazer Group; and

Russell Francis from Velpic.

If you didn’t make it to the party or if you want to catch the panel session again you can see a video taken by our friends at Niche Interview here. Thanks so much Jurgen.

The Techboard Team

18 October 2016

Early Stage Funding Recap: 7 Marketplace Startups That Have Raised A Seed Round in 2016

18/10/201609/11/2016 Peter van Bruchem Leave a comment

The team at Techboard are very pleased to bring you this article by Guest Blogger Paul Towers, the founder of one of Techboard’s media distribution partners, Startup Soda.

Australia has a love affair with marketplace startups. We were one of the first countries to see significant adoption of platforms such as eBay and have had our fair share of home-grown success, with the likes of Freelancer, AirTasker and DesignCrowd all gaining mainstream appeal. It is only natural then that Australian entrepreneurs and founders continue to discover new opportunities ripe for disruption using this model.

In this post we focus on seven Australian marketplace based startups that have raised funding in 2016. This ranges from early stage startups still seeking product market fit, to those have raised well into six figures from some of Australia’s top ranked VC’s.

BDO Leading the Pack for Innovators and Entrepreneurs

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Our friend Marc Loftus and his team from BDO’s Perth office have been celebrating recently after securing the first ruling from the ATO under the new Innovation Tax Incentive legislation. The ruling was obtained under the principles based test for Epic Delivery who are also listed here on Techboard. This article was first published by BDO.

The world today abounds with rapidly expanding opportunities for innovation, turbo charged by developments in the digital space. Businesses, governments and individuals alike are turning their attention to the significant benefits that technology and innovation are creating.

New markets and products, accompanied by a better understanding of consumers, in addition to the ever increasing number of channels available to connect with end users, makes for exciting times as an innovator or entrepreneur.

BDO is committed to supporting our home grown innovation community and stakeholders by utilising our skills, knowledge and expertise in this sector to assist members of the highly collegiate and motivated start-up scene in WA. Thereby jointly contributing to the bigger picture in raising the profile of Australia on the global stage, as a centre for investment in innovation and technology.

TechInvest Magazine Update – to feature Techboard’s quarterly Startup Ranking

29/09/201629/09/2016 Peter van Bruchem Leave a comment

Back in August we announced that in line with our increased emphasis on investment and repositioning of Techboard as an investment discovery platform we had partnered with TechInvest Magazine a new quarterly technology magazine produced by leading Public Relations Firm PPR.

The first edition of TechInvest Magazine will now be circulated in late October 2016 with approximately 70,000 copies being inserted into the Australian Financial Review (AFR) nationally. The magazine will also be distributed directly to more than 1000 leading institutional fund managers, brokers, analysts, retail investors and key technology/ business media in Australia.

We are pleased to reveal that Techboard’s quarterly Startup Ranking for the quarter ending September 2016 will be featured in TechInvest Magazine, aiding to increase the profile of Startups with the highest cumulative ranking scores over the rankings conducted in the quarter.

The Techboard Team