Startup 360
Startup 360
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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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The show focuses on themes of startup culture, personal narratives, and workplace dynamics, with episodes discussing topics like workplace relationships during Valentine's Day, insights from successful startups like Harrison.ai, and personal lessons on values and failure, exemplified through guests' stories and Kayla's career tips.
Every Friday, Startup 360 hosts Simon Thomsen and Majella Campbell, 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.
Alex Miller was having rapid success with his subscription management platform Hudled when he spotted a nugget of insight in that startup and launched a second, Rechargly.
Like a Marvel movie spinoff, he’s now enjoying even more success, as Alex explains on episode 39 of Startup 360.
Cohosts Simon Thomsen and Majella Campbell asked Alex about the lessons and mistakes along the way and how startup No. 2 came about.
“What we discovered [in Hudled] is that accounting firms were managing hundreds of thousands of dollars on behalf of their clients. And in the Hudled dashboard, which was supposed to help them track all of this, they were hiding it,” Alex recounts.
“And we just couldn’t work out why because it was coming off their credit card, it was their spend, but they didn’t consider it as their own.”
So so they launched, Rechargly, so accountancy firms can bill clients quickly and correctly for software disbursements – a pain point that, surprisingly, many neglect or get wrong.
Rechargly now delivers the bulk of the revenue and Majella and Simon wanted to know how to spot an opportunity and go all-in.
“It’s always tricky, isn’t it? Because things were working with Hudled and to take a step back in order to go forward faster is always a really hard decision,” Alex explained.
“And when our team sat down and we were evaluating what was in front of us with what we knew versus what we discovered about what could be, it was, it was really challenging at the time.”
As well as a great convo with a serial founder who kicked off with a paddleboard importing business with a mate, this week’s show discusses the latest from Blackbird-funded New Zealand startup Kiki, now starting out again in London after being shut down in New York, having paid $224,000 in a settlement – 3x the total revenue generated there – with the city over Kiki’s illegal operations there.
Also getting Simon riled up are 350 researcher jobs being cut at the national science agency, CSIRO, in the face of flatlined federal funding.
Startup 360 is more founder fund than founder mode. It’s all about finding out what makes people tick and staying human.
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