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From law student to startup founder — how a trip to India, a couch-moment idea, and a "just give it a crack" mentality led to building a marketplace for fitness and wellness communities

This guide explains how Australian startups can claim up to 43.5% cash back on eligible R&D spend, providing crucial funding to reduce innovation risk and extend runway.

Building gender-inclusive teams from the ground up, replacing legacy biases with systemic equity, and creating tech cultures where talent rises because the environment is designed for everyone.

Building a 7-person engineering team on equity, getting into Techstars, and creating the first AI companion designed by women, for women.

Why startups and career-changing developers are often a great match—and how founders can avoid the most common hiring mistakes.

Naturally curious generalist who believes "standing still isn't an option". Tackling engineering challenges from using AI to identify landmines and creating 3D presentations.

From consulting to government to Silicon Valley - a developer's journey through 19 years of building scalable systems.

From working in research, education, and activism - this developer cares about building products that matter

From side-hustle to scaling nationwide: The journey of building a trusted marketplace for holistic health practitioners.

Using AI agents to create better support experiences and building a world class engineering team from 0 to 17 in under a year

After speaking to 50+ startup founders and investors this is what we learned

Jack joined Kumo Study as CTO this year through an intro from SkillsRobin. Now he's building learning tools to help students with ADHD get better outcomes.

From building a ADHD study tool part-time to raising pre-seed funding and building a team - Alex is helping students with ADHD stay in uni and improve their grades.

My unique strength as a designer comes from my interdisciplinary background. I've studied both design and management, which equips me with a versatile skill set.

I really enjoy rapid prototyping. To start the weekend with nothing then by Sunday evening actually have some useful stuff.

Look here to discover promising junior designers and their work.

I've worked in startups as a software engineer for over seven years... I'm looking to start my own company or going down the managerial side of engineering

Learn what it’s like to be a startup’s founding engineer, his mid-career pivot from architecture and tips on hiring and getting hired