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Why talented women need startups, and why startups need talented women
Startmate Collective
Career
Why talented women need startups, and why startups need talented women

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Bronte McHenry

August 28, 2025

Send the women in your life who are wasting their time in rigid, boring or soul-sucking roles to our Women Fellowship page.
Why this crash-course on management might be the best thing you ever do for your career.
Community
Why this crash-course on management might be the best thing you ever do for your career.

By

Phoebe Pincus

August 28, 2025

If you’re lucky enough, at some point in your career, you’ll be promoted into a management position.‍
WTF does a Chief of Staff do?
Startmate Collective
Career
WTF does a Chief of Staff do?

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Bronte McHenry

August 28, 2025

What are the day-to-day responsibilities of a chief of staff? And how do you move into this role? I put these questions to Harrison.ai’s Thuy Thai and Forage's Anna Prell.
WTF does a Head of Talent do?
Startmate Collective
Career
WTF does a Head of Talent do?

By

Bronte McHenry

August 28, 2025

What are the day-to-day responsibilities of someone in talent acquisition? How do you break into this space? I put these questions to EVP’s Head of Talent Fred Callaghan.
Welcome to Startmate City
Startmate
Welcome to Startmate City

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Michael Batko

August 28, 2025

One of our 10-year goals is to build a 1-million-person technology city in Australia or New Zealand that attracts ambition, ignites innovation, boosts quality of life and fosters human connection.
From Wish to Seachange: How engineer Adam Flynn navigated the “long and messy” process of finding his purpose
Community
From Wish to Seachange: How engineer Adam Flynn navigated the “long and messy” process of finding his purpose

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Bronte McHenry

August 28, 2025

Adam Flynn describes the journey from first engineer at e-commerce startup Wish to VP of Engineering at Seachange as “deeply, deeply, deeply difficult”.
How Vanessa Iezzi landed her dream role as Head of People at Carted
Startmate Collective
Career
How Vanessa Iezzi landed her dream role as Head of People at Carted

By

Bronte McHenry

August 28, 2025

Vanessa Iezzi has long been the one her friends turn to for advice. In hindsight, it makes perfect sense she ended up in the people and culture space.
From Formula 1 to startups: Inside Mechanical Engineer Kyle Forster's search for work-life balance
Community
From Formula 1 to startups: Inside Mechanical Engineer Kyle Forster's search for work-life balance

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Bronte McHenry

August 28, 2025

Kyle Forster is a PhD-qualified engineer specialising in aerodynamic design and a small business owner... and up until a year ago, was an Aerodynamicist on Mercedes' Formula 1 team.
We've made changes to Open House, Office Hours and the Accelerator application process: Here's everything you need to know
Accelerator
We've made changes to Open House, Office Hours and the Accelerator application process: Here's everything you need to know

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Bronte McHenry

August 28, 2025

Here is the what, why and how of our changes to Open House and the Accelerator application process.
Validating an idea as an early-stage founder is all about rapid prototyping and testing: Six learnings from Ajay Prakash
Accelerator
Validating an idea as an early-stage founder is all about rapid prototyping and testing: Six learnings from Ajay Prakash

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Bronte McHenry

August 28, 2025

Underlying all of Ajay Prakash’s success (and failure) is a commitment to “rapid prototyping and testing”.
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