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Is the title “founder” this decade’s version of wanting to be a Masterchef or influencer?Startup 360 cohost Kayla Medica has a theory.“So many people now have glamourised being a founder, being an entrepreneur, that there's a whole host of people who just start businesses with that in mind, and they're not actually starting a business because they've encountered a serious problem that they're driven to solve,” she tells cohost Simon Thomsen on episode 6.A lack of innovation is a key theme on this week’s show, featuring Zeina Khodr, founder of Paper & Spark; and fintech advisor and fitness freak Ben Ford.Zeina, a mentor for women in tech, talks about leadership and team building and how AI is transforming marketing. She’s also an expert in residence for Innovation NSW, helping entrepreneurs find their feet and get their messaging right.While Ben Ford gets into what makes good startup swag, he also talks about burnout and depression and the importance of looking after each other, having lost his sister-in-law, Vanessa, a high-powered UK lawyer, and recounts how two good friends in startups insisted on catching up with him to talk when all he felt like doing was curling up in a ball.And did you know that 20 minutes of resistance training is better for your health than 20 minutes of running? We talk about health and well-being, joy and the guilty pleasure of English crime dramas on Startup 360.This episode of Startup 360 is supported by Vanta, helping startups unlock market opportunities through automated compliance.Subscribe to the show on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube, and don't forget to read StartupDaily.net for all the ANZ tech news for free!
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When do you know you’re CEO material?
It’s the question Startup 360 host Simon Thomsen put to Majella Campbell, the newly appointed CEO of Fishburners, Australia’s pioneering startup coworking space.
Majella talked about her mentor, Myles Baron-Hay, the former Sydney Swans CEO, saying “why not?” when she had her doubts.
"When I was unsure about taking on this role, he simply asked, ‘Why not?’,” she said.
“That moment shifted my perspective. A great mentor pushes you beyond your limits and helps you see opportunities where you only see obstacles."
She also revealed that she’s working on transforming Fishburners, which turns 15 next year, as the NSW government prepares to relocate the Sydney Startup Hub to Tech Central.
We also spoke to Zable Health cofounder Matt Gregory about his journey from real estate startup founder with Hey Agent, to healthcare Zable Health, which he cofounded in 2020 with his best mate, physiotherapist Scott Gentle.
Zable makes private healthcare simpler, faster and more accessible, giving patients the information they need and connecting them with the specialists that can help
While the duo are really competitive at the ping pong table and playing cricket, they complement each other in the business.
Startup 360 cohost Kayla Medica wanted to know about the biggest problem Zable faces getting an analogue health system onto a digital platform.
Matt talks about how to be pragmatic and take a bottom-up approach to that transformation to succeed.
He also gave some great advice on hiring - treat your potential employees like investors.
“The investor's putting in their cash, but the person working inside the business is providing their time,” Matt said.
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Welcome to the Startup 360 with Kayla Medica and guest cohost Cat Long from climate tech startup Trace.
Tomorrow, March 8, is International Women’s Day, and this year's theme is “For ALL women and girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment. This week’s episode explores the challenges women face as founders, from funding to parenting and the self-doubt you can feel as a female founder (and even if you want to be referred to as a female founder).
Joining us this week are two amazing women: from Melbourne, Kaylene Langford, author of How to Start a Side Hustle and the founder of StartUp Creative; and in the studio, Jessica Baird Walsh, founder of Capital X, which is committed to supporting women founders.
Kaya and Cat discuss the challenges and experiences of being a female founder or minority entrepreneurs, including raising funds, as well as work-life balance and having a family.
As a parent, Cat’s open about the support she needs from family others to build a business while also raising children, and the challenge of maternity leave in a startup (since it doesn't really exist) and the tradeoffs involved in being a founder and working mum too.
Trace raised $1.5 million in 2022 from 21 investors and emerged from the Antler program.
Kayla asks both Cat and Kaylene about their advice for aspiring entrepreneurs, especially women. Kaylene says the way to overcome procrastination and self-doubt is to take small steps consistently, and the progress will compound over time. The trick is to take action rather than wait for everything to be perfect.
They also stress the importance of seeking advice and support from others who have been there before.
Kaylene also talks about the power of women’s intuition in business, and the need for persistence and self-care.
Jessica Baird Walsh started Capital X after facing her challenges in raising capital, particularly due to lack of access to networks. She talks about the power imbalance and gender biases in funding, as well as breaking negative stereotypes around women founders.
Jess is also a mother of three, and talked about sharing the load in raising a family, as well as her personal passion project - running every day. It started in 2022 as a 30 day challenge to run 5km. She’s now done it for 800 days straight and in late 2024, set a new goal - fundraising for the Indigenous Marathon Foundation.
She also discusses her mixed feelings about International Women's Day and gender disparities, advocating for more tactical and systemic changes.
There’s plenty to think about ahead of IWD in this edition of Startup 360. We hope you get something from it and go on to celebrate women and female founders for the other 364 days of the year too.
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Welcome to the Startup 360 with Kayla Medica and Simon Thomsen.
It’s all about founder fun, finding out what makes people tick and staying human.
This week, Kayla and Simon celebrate Mardi Gras in Sydney this weekend talking about their favourite works by musicians and writers. Kayla recommends a Japanese all-women band, f5ve, loved by the queer community around the world.
Simon sounds a bit in love with Canadian singer Rufus Wainwright.
On the couch this week is politician Jacqui Munro, the youngest Liberal woman to be elected to the NSW Legislative Council, and the NSW Liberal Party's first LGBTQI+ woman Parliamentarian.
She’s also shadow assistant minister for the arts, innovation, digital government and the 24-hour economy, so we talk about the art of politics and compromise, acceptance, and startups.
Joining them for 10x, our rapid-fire questions, is Veronica Mason, a high-performance coach, with a passion for resilience and adaptive thinking and member of the LGBTIQ+ Advisory Council established last year by NSW Premier Chis Minns.
She’s also involved with The Pinnacle Foundation, which provides educational scholarships, mentoring and opportunities for young LGBTIQ+ Australians to realise their full potential.
After being outed in high school, Veronica broke her back in several places aged 23, learnt to talk again, and now focuses on helping others.
Kayla asks for the best piece of advice Veronica can give - watch your thoughts, she said, and explains why it’s important. She also shares what to look for in a mentor.
Simon asked the hard questions, like her favourite part of Mardi Gras.
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Welcome to the Startup 360 with Kayla Medica and Simon Thomsen.
It’s all about founder fun, finding out what makes people tick and staying human.
For our second show, Kayla and Simon discuss exit strategies in the wake of KKR buying a $95 million slice of Employment Hero in a secondary market sale by OG investor Seek. With IPOs on the go slow, how do employees cash in on the success they helped build?
They also talked about how women are treated on social media after LinkedIn delayed taking down a post where a man compared marketing to breast sizes and talked about “A cup ideas and using verbal push up bras to attract eyeballs”.
Kayla revealed that what you see in public is the tip of the iceberg when it comes to what women have to deal with.
Our guests this week are Tom Bruining cofounder of profitable, bootstrapped startup HowdyGo.
His cofounders are in Perth and the UK/Italy, catching up daily for 60 minutes.
Tom talks about changing expectations from taking on investors - an experience he had in a previous startup - life working from home, and how to include your partner in what you’re doing. (He just got married)
Joining us for 10x, our rapid-fire 10 questions, is Brian Swift, cofounder of Twine, which coincidentally, announced a $2.3 million raise backed by Airtree, just before he stepped into the studio.Brian’s CV includes time at Twitter, Atlassian, SafetyCulture, and Dovetail so we asked him about what he learnt, and what’s different when you become a founder, the favourite founder he worked for, and the startups he sees with unicorn potential.
He also revealed that they had between 50 and 100 names on a whiteboard before choosing Twine and explains how they chose it, as well as his favourite TV show.
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Welcome to the Startup 360 product launch! We hope you like our MVP with cohosts Kayla Medica and Simon Thomsen.
We want to have founder fun and find out what makes people tick - it’s not about GTM strategies and the next raise, it’s all about staying human.
In our first show, Kayla and Simon talk about the extraordinary success of Harrison.ai, the medical diagnostics analysis platform that raised a $179 million series C.
Kayla thinks they’ll be talked about alongside of wifi as a profound Australian tech development that goes global.
It’s Valentine’s Day and there’s a bit of talk about office liaisons.
Kayla, the show’s diversity hire, launches her new weekly advice section, Kayla’s Kareer Tip, delving into the tricky issue of workplace relationships, with the pending legal action at Dovetail between the CEO and an employee front of mind.
Rampersand senior associate Abhishek Maran posted about Investment at First Sight on LinkedIn (Simon watched MAFS this week for the first time and can’t stop talking about it), and Kayla shares the worst pitch she had.
Our guests this week are serial entrepreneur Steve Taitoko, talking about why he was happy when he lost his startup, losing sight of your values, how to get them back and the importance of family, while Vinisha Rathod MD of p3 Studio deals with 10x, our rapid-fire 10 questions, and shares her Spotify focus playlist of female Nordic and Celtic voices (with thanks to Ekaterina Shelehova).
She also explains what happened - and went wrong when she impulsively booked flights to go see someone while drunk in a gay bar.
Speaking of drinks, we launched with 6Ft6 prosecco ($20) from Victoria’s King Valley. We bought it for the label, which said “I’m kind of a big deal”.
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Every Friday, Startup 360 hosts Simon Thomsen and Kayla Medica, dissect the news of the week in ANZ startups, before they’re joined by two guests to explore what makes them tick.
Think of it as your startup guide to staying human.
It’s all about lifting the bonnet on people to understand how they see the world and what inspires and drives them, and what they’ve learnt from both success and failure.
And don’t miss 10x, 10 rapid-fire questions that will surprise and make you laugh.
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