Kesuksesan ‘startup’ tak hanya bersandar pada produk yang ditawarkan atau tersedianya pasar. Kepribadian para pendirinya pun memainkan peran penting.
- Adjunct professor, UNSW
- Professorial fellow, University of Technology Sydney
Start-up success isn’t just about finding the right product or underserved market, personalities matter too.
Big data analysis has unveiled startling links between seemingly unrelated things, such as how a person’s physical elevation above sea level might influence their personality.
Our research provides the first comprehensive picture of long-term trends in online diversity, drawing on a dataset that’s four times as large as the original Hubble Space Telescope data.
After analysing posts from 100,000 Twitter users, our research used big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence to reveal the hidden personality traits underpinning thousands of jobs.
Now with more unicorns than fintech, could it be showtime for mediatech?
Softbank has become one of the biggest global names in tech. The story of its founder and CEO Masayoshi Son offers some prescient insight in how to navigate highly competitive global markets.
While Pandora continues to lead in the US in streaming music all the signs from investors, user momentum and tech talent indicate Spotify is on the verge of seizing the crown.
Cross-border tech deals are on the rise, meaning the usual expectations on acquisitions are changing.
Business Briefing: disrupted companies will need to think global to survive
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Australian businesses need to focus more on the global market and less on giving generous dividends to shareholders.
People in all manner of professions from economists and real estate agents to stockbrokers and doctors are beginning to recognise the huge potential and power of unconventional data.
Open government and public data could contribute up to A$16 billion per annum to the Australian economy.
As online marketplaces mature, a raft of new service-based companies are popping up around them.
Using web data it’s possible to work out which bookstores are the world’s ‘most loved’.
While much focus and discussion of the so-called “Big Data revolution” has been on the data itself and the exciting new applications it is enabling — from Google’s self-driving cars through to CSIRO and…
Do you know someone who has lost their job in the last few years working in IT, media, finance or retail? These industries and many others are already feeling the pinch of “online gravity” - a special…
The world of big business is littered with once popular but now discarded household names like Kodak, Borders and Blockbuster. In this disruptive forces series we find out who might be next, uncovering…
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