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The digital age has reshaped the 21st century business landscape in a world of ways. On this episode of Tomorrow’s Tech, Chairman of Opmantek and 42 Ventures, Danny Maher shares deep insights on why the Freemium business model requires strategic choices that need to be aligned and continuously reviewed to build a sustainable business.

When it comes to investment, having the right valuation is key! Entrepreneurs who can demonstrate an objective and accurate valuation from the perspective of investors set themselves up for successful capital raising.
On this Tomorrow’s Tech episode, Graeme Linklater shares tips for entrepreneurs to achieve an attractive valuation. Graeme is a long-term successful investor, and one of the founding members of the Brisbane Angels Group. Having mentored several entrepreneurs on this matter, you will want to listen to his perspective.

Australian Sports Legend Greg Chappell plays with STR8BAT to bring the next big innovation in Sports – see how @Greg and Techstars backed startup str8bat is helping players worldwide #PlayBetter

Australian Sports Legend Greg Chappell plays with STR8BAT to bring the next big innovation in Sports

Greg Chappell is a renowned cricket player and coach, inducted in the Sports Australia Hall of Fame. On this Tomorrow’s Tech show Greg shares the importance of co-innovating with your target market to develop a valuable offering, ready to be commercialised.

As an investor into Sportstech startup, Str8bat, Chappelli identifies what value he saw in the startup, and the important qualities demonstrated by the founders and value in the proposition that gave him the confidence to invest. Share this episode with sportstech founders within your network looking to understand what the market and potential investors are looking for.

Is your startup venture investor ready or just pitch ready? On this Tomorrow’s Tech episode, Brian Cooke explains the due diligence process startups go through, to demonstrate their value beyond a great pitch.

As a Brisbane Angels Group investor, Brian emphasizes that while a pitch can generate interest, only through meticulous due diligence can investment decisions be made. With the changes brought about by the COVID-19 raising capital has become even more difficult for early-stage startups. Watch this episode and learn how you can set yourself apart and create opportunities to thrive in the post-COVID environment.

With the current coronavirus pandemic, there is no doubt that businesses of all sizes including startups and scallops are being affected. Don McKenzie, Managing Director of Adizes Institute Australia shares some insights specifically for startups and scaleups during this time. The founders who can manage change, driving towards productive conflict, will find themselves in a better position to implement strategy quickly and survive the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn how understanding the current state of the business, and developing goals for a future state based on what is happening can help founders draw a successful path for their future.

Don McKenzie has experience managing publicly listed companies (ASX) and is a long-time investor, now with the Brisbane Angels Group. He shares the qualities investors are looking for in founders, that can be demonstrated in times of uncertainty. Listen to this episode and join the conversation, on the 3dotDigital Linkedin Channel.

Is your startup venture investor ready or just pitch ready? On this Tomorrow’s Tech episode, Brian Cooke explains the due diligence process startups go through, to demonstrate their value beyond a great pitch.

As a Brisbane Angels Group investor, Brian emphasizes that while a pitch can generate interest, only through meticulous due diligence can investment decisions be made. With the changes brought about by the COVID-19 raising capital has become even more difficult for early-stage startups. Watch this episode and learn how you can set yourself apart and create opportunities to thrive in the post-COVID environment.

An experienced capital raising advisor, Cissy shares her insights on the Australian capital raising market and the gap between Angel and VC investment as well as how the government can play a part.

Sortal enables users to intuitively search for their digital content, through Artificial Intelligence technology. Majella Edwards speaks on how her career as an Olympian athlete, and later in design, shaped her understanding of technology and how to successfully bring to market an innovative tech product. This conversation spans across many aspects of the Australian innovation and start-up ecosystem, including the right time to seek investment, to how to ascertain that the technology being developed will actually solve business problems.

Ron Hill is a successful Australian entrepreneur, with a history of commercialising IP-driven projects in the international market. After being instrumental in developing the Boulder, Colorado (USA) innovation and entrepreneurship hub, Ron has returned to Australia to accomplish the same for the Sunshine Coast, on the back to the Undersea Fiber Optic Cable landing in mid-2020.

Watch this episode for insight into the crucial pieces to build a well-oiled start-up and innovation ecosystem, focused on providing the entrepreneurs with the resources to succeed, including a channel into “deals over demo days”, and larger markets overseas, at a purposeful time.

Have you validated the most valued product features before entering the market? Are you confident that your idea will serve the market better than incumbents in it? Do you know how to minimise risk without compromising your innovation?

Whether you are an entrepreneur, small business owner or managing a large corporation, the research Linda Ginger will give you access to, decrease market research time of 6 months into days and give you an accurate picture of how your business idea would perform in that market!

Be on the lookout for Linda Ginger’s book on these ideas of how you can innovate confidently and enter the market with much higher chances of success.

Juliette Murphy is the founder and CEO of FloodMapp, a real-time predictive flood mapping software company. On this episode of Tomorrow’s Tech, Sam and Juliette discuss how a passion project, coupled with subject matter expertise can be made into a powerful solution for such a significant problem.

All over the world, individuals and companies suffer serious damages from being unable to predict the magnitude of floods until it’s too late. You will get some insight into the technology, which provides real-time flood inundation maps, AND into FloodMapp’s business strategy and roadmap! Stay tuned for a breakdown into how Juliette looks to action the recent capital raise of $1.3 million.