The Innovation Show

• Dr Zivit Inbar - https://www.differenthinking.com.au/ and https://au.linkedin.com/in/zivitinbar
• Founders and sales team with software experience
• Managing staff and thinking about cultural and gender diversity
• Encouraging our children and future entrepreneurs through the process of the learning as opposed to the result, and cultivate courage, and creativity.
• Founders stepping out beyond their fears, risks and consequences already considered:
  • Surrounding yourself with a strong leadership preforming team
  • Thinking strategically as soon as you have a team to scale up
  • Scaling up is big challenge
• Want-to-be founders (still working for someone):
  • Stress, ambiguity of employment, and goals constantly changing
  • Cultivation of trial and error, team atmosphere and vibe
  • Working for another start-up, maybe an unstructured environment
  • Recruitment process
• Start-up eco systems globally and in Australia
  • The start-up conversations and ecosystem needs to be the focus for government
• Courses provided
  • Leadership, practical tools
  • One on one coaching
  • 25 people per cohort, all different stages of start-ups
  • Interactive and forces you out of your comfort zone
• Links mentioned:
  • https://www.smartcompany.com.au/startupsmart/advice/soft-skills-the-vacuum-that-exists-within-many-australian-startups/
  • Fund your way - https://startupvictoria.com.au/
  • https://launchvic.org/
  • https://www.seek.com.au/

Danielle interviews startup brothers Derek and Damien Lacey from Bluestone Yeast who are producing an all Australian liquid yeast for micro breweries.

Taylor Tran from Coworking FYI

• Taylor Tran, co-founder coworking.fyi and #CCCnoosa. Taylor is co-cofounder of coworking.fyi a national network of innovation spaces for entrepreneurs and curator of Crypto Coast Convention for blockchain #CCCnoosa. Taylor is also a champion for the Victorian Government's Digital Innovation Festival #DIFvic for the past two years, he holds an MBA and written 3 books on innovation and emerging tech.
• Digital disruption is happening faster (blockchain and artificial intelligence)
• Noosa Digital Hub Peregian Beach
  • https://www.noosanews.com.au/news/start-up-heads-up-a-crypto-currency-new-wave-of-bu/3594132/
  • https://www.noosa.qld.gov.au/digital-hub-peregian-beach
  • https://www.facebook.com/peregianhub/
  • https://peregianhub.com.au/
• Advisory board, investors, government, and entrepreneurs to put technology and innovation event together
• Book - https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/228392616?selectedversion=NBD60771387
• Co-working:
  • Do a stocktake of the innovation narrative in your area. Work out where the gaps are and where you want to go.
  • Work together and be flexible, really understand your clients
  • Councils not to lead the innovation co-working initiative
• 1/3 of workspaces in the future will be flexible/innovation workspaces
• Co-working network - https://www.coworking.fyi/
• New law passed in Australian Parliament - https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id:%22legislation/billhome/r6195%22

Host: Danielle Story, Eastern Innovation Business Centre
Production: Glenn Biclar, Alba Prime

Danielle speaks with Toby Aikins from Pin Payments.

Pin Payments is an online payment processing services that services Australian businesses and spans across other countries.

• Pin Payments was established in 2011
• Melbourne based office, with Perth being the engineering and development base.
• Original problem being solved was access to reliable foreign payments via API’s for Australian businesses
• Key hurdle data security systems, online audits, to convince banks that Pin Payments can be responsible for thousands of accounts to allocate merchant facilities
• Once Toby got the model right, word of mouth really kicked off. Little marketing was done.
• Next step is international expansion. Australia is a small, conservative, and competitive marketing for payments.
• Currently over 11,000 business with three support staff
• Using Singapore to reach into South-East Asia
• US seems to be more progressive than Singapore in terms of payments
• Pin Payments is setting up in London in 2019!
• UK market is much more mature compare to Australia
• Once a week, team has a Zoom (https://zoom.us/) meeting for updates from sales, support, engineer and finance. Sharing is key, no secrecy from different departments, complete transparency.
• Slack (https://slack.com)and Trello (https://trello.com) is a tool used for team communications
• Help Scout (https://www.helpscout.net) is used for customer correspondence
• Advice: Solve a day-to-day pain point. Take a few more risks, trust technology rather than people)

Visit https://pinpayments.com
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pinpayments

Hosted by Danielle Storey – CEO, Eastern Innovation Business Centre (http://www.eibc.net.au)

Produced by Glenn Biclar – Alba Prime (http://www.albaprime.com)

Giri Giri - http://www.girigiri.com.au with Geoffrey Mann and Kana Ando.

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/girigiriAus

Apple App Store - https://girigiri.app.link

Google Play Store - http://bit.ly/girigiriAndroid

An app that can help you find your spontaneous experience.

• Japanese for just-in-time or last minute.
• Started by talking to businesses in the city of Monash to find out what problems can be solved.
• For businesses with boards, have a diverse team with various backgrounds and disciplines, tactical and strategic. Be able to communicate well and get along well on a personal level.
• Do a minimum viable product (MVP), give to the businesses and consumers, and learn that what others are saying or not what they’re doing. It makes sales and marketing a lot easier as they embrace the app.
• Spoke to other start-up founders at https://rmitactivator.edu.au/launchhub/ and it was a great opportunity to solve different problems and bounce ideas off each other.
• If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. - AFRICAN PROVERB
• Ripped pieces of paper from a notebook as a business card with a mobile phone number on it!
• Keep the jargon down when talking with potential customers.
• Talking to angel investors and backers, currently looking at Melbourne market in the next 3 months, then 3 other states after that, then overseas.
• Australia isn’t as competitive as Silicon Valley in terms of investors and other start-ups.

Hosted by Danielle Storey - CEO, Eastern Innovation Business Centre

Produced by Glenn Biclar - Alba Prime

In this episode, Allira chats with Sarah Munnings and Robyn Hall from Grow: A Creative Community:

• Taking risks and opportunities: you don’t know where it could take you and who you might meet
• Partnerships and providing for the community
• Challenges: diving your time, letting go of control, accepting not everything is perfect, sharing responsibilities and not having to do everything
• How to deal with social media: just put it out there and know that you can’t control how the world reacts
• Working with Link Health as an auspice partner
• Creativity can help with people’s mental health
• Having a mentor is extremely useful and mentorship is available for the community
• Take your ideas and map them out on paper, then action it
• Generous offer to our listeners (business planning, risk management, different perspective on your business direction)

Mentioned links in this episode:

• Grow: a creative community - https://www.facebook.com/growacc/
• https://wovenbysociety.com.au/grow-creative-community/

Connect with us at the Eastern Innovation Business Centre in Mulgrave.  Visit us at http://www.eibc.net.au

Questions, comments, and feedback can be directed to [email protected]

Podcast produced by http://www.albaprime.com