How did you come up with the great idea for your app? Kate, one of the Directors at Ariel Community, was the inspiration behind the concept of the Ariel App. After working for many years as a Disability Support Worker, she recognised that there was a lack of useable and easily accessible tools to help
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Crowdfunding for your App: the 5 Best Rewards
Crowdfunding for your App: the 5 Best Rewards Crowdfunding is a great mechanism to get your projects and startup businesses off the ground. And it’s easy to see why more entrepreneurs are turning to crowdfunding: it’s more convenient to launch compared to traditional business financing options, it can capture a niche market, and developers can
Crowdfunding and Ideation – 3 Synergies all innovators must know about
Crowdfunding and Ideation – 3 synergies all innovators must know about Ideation and execution are two core elements of innovative projects. The former is about finding new approaches to solving business and social problems, whereas the latter is fundamental to make ideas come true and deliver on their promised benefits. For several years already,
Large Corporates Turn to Crowdfunding to Facilitate Innovation
Crowdfunding is starting to become a strategic tool for large corporate enterprises. Innovation in large enterprises has always been a tricky path to set and follow. Senior leadership teams walk on eggshells in the process. They must invest in the right technologies while making sure they do not jeopardise the sales of existing
How to Crowdfund a Startup and Help Australian Farmers
Startup Story: Aussie Food To You We are delighted that our newest crowdfunding campaign is not only an Aussie business startup, but is working to help Aussie farmers. Every week we get asked the question, “How can reward based crowdfunding can help my business startup or expand?’ We gave an example recently about how Meg
Agile Planning for the First-time Entrepreneur
How to Manage Your New Project As a first-time entrepreneur there’s so many things we don’t know and so many processes to manage. Ok, so perhaps you’ve run a crowdfunding campaign and secured funding, even hired your first employees and you’re looking for the best way to manage the entire product development of your idea.
Software Testing Explained for First-Time Entrepreneurs
Testing Your Software Product: Many first-time entrepreneurs unfortunately underestimate the importance of software testing, simply because it’s not taught in the entrepreneur courses and it’s not an exciting part of the product development process. But guess what? The lack of software or product testing can lead you straight to disaster. Imagine you built the greatest
What entrepreneurs need to know before building a tech product
Have an idea for an app, software or tech product? Here is a checklist for all entrepreneurs that want to avoid failure when launching a tech product. This checklist will be essential in guiding your strategy – and will help you to determine a budget. This in turn can help determine at what point you
Have a business idea, but no tech knowledge and little money? Read this!
Strategies for nontechnical entrepreneurs in software development In recent weeks I have had some interesting feedback from start-ups and entrepreneurs requiring affordable options for software development. Software development is not an easy game to play. Especially if you have had limited or no exposure to software development. The romance of Silicon Valley start-ups making instant
