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Gentleman Technologist and co-founder of Startup News. His vision has made //SN a sustainable media cheerleader for the startup community. Former CEO of Phnom Penh Post, he can be found somewhere in S.E. Asia coding away...

Are You Awesome? Find out here…

I’m officially awesome. No, really, I have a certificate to prove it and everything. They even gave me $1000 because I’m so awesome.

Startup Weekend Joondalup At Enterprise Week, 8-10 August

A 54-hour, collaborative challenge for entrepreneurs will feature as the final event of the recently announced Enterprise Week

. Supported by Google for Entrepreneurs and hosted at Joondalup’s co-working space sixty27, Startup Weekend Joondalup will provide hands-on experiences where established and aspiring entrepreneurs can find out if startup ideas are viable.

Startup Weekend Challenge at Joondalup Enterprise Week

A 54-hour, collaborative challenge for entrepreneurs will feature as the final event of the recently announced Enterprise Week. Supported by Google for Entrepreneurs and hosted at Joondalup’s co-working space sixty27, Startup Weekend Joondalup will provide hands-on experiences where established and aspiring entrepreneurs can find out if startup ideas are viable.

Enterprise Week At Joondalup Sixty27

Enterprise Week will officially kick off on Monday 4 August, providing the community with a weeklong event filled with tech talks, digital workshops, networking events and facility tours at Joondalup’s newest co-working space sixty27.

AppBotX Released Into The Wild

Local Legend Stuart Hall has released the latest version of his popular AppBot utility, but this time expanded it to an entire suite of tools for app developers to use to improve customer communication.

The Trough of Despond – Startup Nightmares

I have no f%#king idea what I’m doing. There’s a hundred thousand things I need to be doing to make this work, and I’m struggling to get any of them done.

Happy Birthday #SMPerth

SMPerth is a social media networking event/meetup, held on the last Tuesday of each month, at a random venue in the city that serves alcohol. It’s about to have its first birthday, so we met up with #SMPerth’s founders Michelle Milton and Meg Coffey to talk about it.

BankWest HackDay Prizes

Bankwest Hack Day Was “Hack To The Future”!

I got invited to the BankWest Hackday because I organised some stuff. Which in itself is pretty unique. How many large corporates do you know that invite random people who’ve organised events to come watch them have fun and make things? There were even other guests from other similar organisations there to share learning about running internal Hack Days. So my mind was open to the awesome before we even began.