Who: Mike Casey
When: Monday the 11th April 2011. 6.30pm.
Where: The City Hotel (The Living Room). 347 Kent St, Sydney.
Cost: FREE!

Mike is one of the founders of GradConnection which recently won the award for number 1 niche job board in Australia. Mike and his two founders met whilst on the Westpac graduate program and have been running GradConnection for nearly three years. Mike has a lot of advice around forming a team, bootstrapping a web startup and getting people to your site for next to no money.

He is also very active in supporting the entrepreneurial community in Sydney with many new initiatives.

Come along and hear how Mike has travelled the often tricky entrepreneurial path.

RSVP for the event by registering here:
http://thehivesydneyapril.eventbrite.com/

Cost is free.

When: 6:30pm, Tuesday the 15th of February, 2011

Where: The City Hotel (The Living Room)
Address: 347 Kent St Sydney, NSW, 2000
Google map here

Daniel Noble is the founder and Managing Director of Drive My Car, Australia’s first private-car rental market. Using the principals & dynamics of collaborative consumption Daniel has seen this site grow to be a thriving online rental market place that promotes and facilitates private car rentals between Car Owners and Drivers.

Also speaking are the guys from the Green Way Up. Chuck, Oscar, Justin and Bob are driving from the bottom of Australia to the top of Europe without filling up at a petrol station…and their leaving in the next couple of months. Firstly how, and secondly why?

Founder at Tjoos
Founder at Startup Australia
Founder at BootUpCamp

Bart is a born computer wizard: at age 6 he started with computer programming on a Commodore 64. At the age of 14 he developed and implemented a complete CRM system for a large company, and ever since he’s been developing new software applications and websites. Bart was always determined to become an innovative entrepreneur and focused his career as technologist, developer, IT manager and leader to develop essential skills and experience to become a leading entrepreneur.

In 2007 Bart founded his first company together with his girlfriend Kim: Tjoos (pronounced ‘choose’). The website Tjoos.com started as price comparison engine, but then specialised in online discount coupons. The site grew by 400 percent year on year to well over 1 million unique visitors in February 2010; offering over 500,000 coupons from more than 180,000 merchants. In March 2010 Tjoos.com was acquired by US based Internet Brands (NASDAQ: INET).

Bart is also the founder of Startup Australia, which organises startup boot camps to inspire and support more people to start their own tech venture.

Awards:
2009 NSW Pearcey Special Recognition Award
2009 The Next Web Australia’s Startup Person of the Year

In 1997 David established Sculpture by the Sea with the idea of creating a free to the public event visual arts event for Sydney held annually along the Bondi to Tamarama coastal walk. The first show was put up, on and pulled down in just one-day and was run by volunteers working out of David’s lounge room with no budget – yet with a $400 marketing budget 25,000 people visited. This led to the Artistic Director of the 1998 Olympic Arts Festival, Andrea Stretton, to commission David to produce 5 Sculpture by the Sea exhibitions around Australia with Darwin (NT), Noosa (Qld), Albany (WA), Tasman Peninsula (Tas) joining the Bondi show. But the Olympic money was a one off and the early years were very hard as costs mounted with the need for full time staff and the show growing in length, size and complexity each year as the artists got more and more adventurous.

Managing (just!) the financial tight rope Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi quickly became the largest and most popular sculpture exhibition in the world. Staged annually over three weeks in late October/early November the Bondi show attracts an estimated 500,000 visitors each year to view over 100 sculptures along the 2km Bondi coastal walk (www.sculpturebythesea.com).

In 2003 Sculpture by the Sea Incorporated was established as a not for profit incorporated association listed on the National Cultural Register with tax deductible gift recipient status. This move was designed to provide a legal and financial entity suitable for the long term management of the Australian Sculpture by the Sea exhibitions.

In 2005 Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe was established as an annual exhibition on the Indian Ocean at Perth’s most popular beach. Staged over three weeks in March the exhibition attracts over 140,000 people and is now one of Perth’s major annual events.

The first international edition of Sculpture by the Sea was held in June 2009 in the City of Aarhus in Denmark. The Aarhus exhibition featured 60 sculptures by artists from across the world including 26 from Australia making it the largest international exhibition of Australian sculpture to date – and the Danes loved it with an estimated 600,000 visitors over 4 weeks.

This year in Sydney, Sculpture By The Sea commences on 29 October through until 15 November with over 100 artists being represented.

August 18th 2009

Movember is an entrepreneurial movement that raises money to for prostate cancer and male depression through its participants (Mo Bros and Mo Sistas), by bringing back the ‘Mo’ to generate awareness of two life-threatening diseases which are almost taboo to talk about among most Australian males due to cultural stigma.

Since its inception as a formal charity in 2004 Movember has raised over $60 million globally, significantly increased awareness of prostate cancer and depression in the community, and is continuously working to change the attitude men have about their health. Movember’s mission is each year to develop and deliver an exciting and creative Movember campaign that will forever change the way men think about, discuss and treat their own health issues.

The first Movember was in 2003, and the event first raised funds in 2004 when 262 registered Mo Bros raised just over $55,000. News of Movember spread, and the following year saw 9315 Mo Bros Australia-wide raise an impressive $1.2M. In 2006 Movember exceeded all expectations and by the end of the month, $6.63M had been raised by Mo Bros and Mo Sistas. 2006 was also the year that Movember gained international recognition as a fun way to raise money for a serious cause.

Movember’s original founders, Luke Slattery, Travis Garone, Adam Garone and Justin Coghlan were asked to coordinate additional campaigns in the UK, USA, Canada, Spain and New Zealand, and in 2007 a phenomenal 130,000 Mo Bros and Mo Sistas participated worldwide. In Australia alone there were over 96,000 participants – more than double the previous year.

Luke writes: “Just when we thought it couldn’t get much bigger 2008 rolled along and we had over 124,000 participants in Australia and 170,000 globally.”

In terms of awareness, a recent survey showed that over 70% of Movember participants have become more aware of men’s health issues and have discussed those issues with family members, friends or colleagues. This kind of communication is important for promoting early detection of prostate cancer and breaking down the stigma attached to depression.

Movember has proved that looking at challenges from a different perspective can achieve results never dreamed of.

Registrations for 2009 will open in September 2009 – visit http://au.movember.com/ or call for registration assistance call 1300 GROW MO (1300 4769 66).