Day One®

With remote work on the rise, the issue of creating the same deep relationships in a team virtually compared to being in the office is becoming more and and more challenging. Jessica Baird and her team at Remote Social have created a product to encourage social moments between teams through a series of virtual games and hosted experiences well suited for remote and hybrid teams. Hope you enjoy the episode!

On this episode we interview Nathan Hookway, General Manager at Zimple Digital. 

In this first episode of our RemoteTechPodcast series we chat with Brendan Yell, Director of Twilio Startups. This is the first episode of our new series focusing on remote work and how companies and teams have pivoted to a remote first workplace, the challenges, the learnings and the success of this. Hope you enjoy the episode!

Meet Melanie Mury from IMBY (In My Backyard). IMBY operates in the proptech space (Property Technology) and is working to consolidate the development application process or at least make it easier to navigate. Melanie started IMBY with her partner in life and business, Chris Mury.

This isn't just a story about a business venture, this is a life story, one that started and changed forever when Melanie was 18 years old and decided to head overseas.

Let's go back to day one where this story begins.

Today you’re going to hear the story of Linda Bergskas and Visionise. Linda started Visionise, a full-service fashion branding service after she sold her own international fashion brand in search of a more balanced lifestyle. With such a successful career and a large network within the industry, Linda found herself constantly being asked for her expertise to help start and grow fashion brands.

In this episode guest host Andy Jones goes on a walking tour with Becky Kiil, founder of Newcastle Afoot, a top rated walking tour and cultural experiences business. On top of her already hectic work life, Becky is also volunteering her time as festival coordinator for Big Picture Fest Newcastle, a project which received over $200,000 in grant money to bring local and international mural artists to the city in October 2020. In this conversation Becky discusses the challenges of managing a work-life balance, and her love for the city which she now calls home.

Today I’d like to share with you the story of Your Food Collective. Your Food Collective is serving over 1400 people since they opening in 2017 at an 80% customer retention rate with a very good average order value. They have hubs all over Newcastle where you can collect your orders and catch up with your local champion and they’ve recently entered the Sydney market too.

Your Food Collective is growing and bringing truly fresh food to everyone. Now, let’s go back to day one, where this story begins…

Today you’re going to hear the story of Eat Your Water featuring Liam Scanlan.

Before we go back to the beginning, here’s where we are today, Liam has been named one of the top 50 people in e-commerce in the whole of Australia. In November 2019 alone over 100,000 people went through the Eat Your Water store and Eat Your Water has one of the lowest cost per purchases at 27 cents per purchase with an average order value of $56.

Very impressive numbers and Liam is an impressive guy and is only 23 years old. Now, let’s go back to day one where this story begins…

Today you’re going to hear the story of Startmate featuring the head of operations at Startmate, Michael Batko.

Startmate is the leading tech accelerator in Australia and they take 10 to 15 companies and new stage founders in each cohort and help them from three to four months to get them to the next stage of their business.

They look for just the most ambitious founders and then work with that talent. Startmate doesn’t necessarily specialise in a certain area or industry. Startmate just focuses on the most ambitious founders and work with them to create immense value.

Let’s go back to day one, to a pub in Surry Hills where this story begins…

Today you’re going to hear from Alan Jones - The Nice One.

Alan Jones is a startup entrepreneur, a mentor to other startup founders, and an angel investor who is building a venture fund.

Let's meet Alan Jones.