From a tech meetup to cofounding one of Perth's fastest growing development houses. Alex and John from Ninja Software have built a great company over the last 5 years. On this episode of Weird Growth we chatted about Synthetic Biology, Agile Software Development vs Fixed Fee, proof of concept apps and building a passionate dev team. They also run Tech Society a great podcast we've linked below in the show notes go and check it out. Show notes: - Tech Society Podcast - https://www.techsociety.fm/ - Ninja Software - https://www.ninjasoftware.com.au/ - Silicon Valley - https://www.hbo.com/silicon-valley - Bubble - https://bubble.io/ - Adobe XD - https://www.adobe.com/au/products/xd.html - The Game Changer Awards - https://www.gamechangerawards.com.au/ - Quake - https://store.steampowered.com/app/2310/QUAKE/ - The Snoo - https://happiestbaby.com.au/

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Weird Growth #23 - Keep an eye out for bugs - Alex Dunmow & John Nguyen

Cian gave us a great recap on how he started his business Quantum Contract Solutions and how he scaled through great business metrics. Cian's approach to sales is a great blueprint for service businesses and B2B. If you love sales, you'll love this episode of Weird Growth. More links in the show notes. Show notes: - Pipedrive - https://www.pipedrive.com/ - The Ultimate Blueprint - https://www.amazon.com.au/Ultimate-Blueprint-Insanely-Successful-Business-ebook/dp/B00770HKYU - The Road Less Stupid - https://www.amazon.com.au/Road-Less-Stupid-Advice-Chairman-ebook/dp/B077NXPL4L - The 1 Page Marketing Plan by Allan Dib - Successwise - https://successwise.com/

Weird Growth #22 - Navigate Sales, Optimize and Grow - Cian Brennan

We hosted our subscribers for a live episode at terraceloft studio in East Perth with two amazing founders Nick Hudson and Elizabeth Knight. Listen to these two founders share the ups and downs of startup life and how showing up and having a purpose driven venture has been the key to their success. Purposeful helps young people find direction in their lives after school. Elizabeth wants to help people graduates find confidence in their careers in a complex world. She's now participating in Plus Eight's Accelerator program to grow and get The Lost Button to market. Check out The Lost Button in the show notes. Nick founded mental health charity event The Push-Up Challenge after a life changing experience and his own challenges with mental health. Here more about what drives him and all the great work his team has done in the mental health space. The Push-Up Challenge raised around $9 million this year. To date over 241 million push ups have been done as part of the event. Show notes: - https://www.thepushupchallenge.com.au/ - https://www.purposeful.org.au/ - https://www.thelostbutton.org/ - http://www.terraceloft.com.au - https://www.businessinsider.com.au/textie-website-awkward-text-messages-2015-6 - https://www.techstars.com/communities/startup-weekend - https://airtable.com/ - https://www.notion.so/ - https://super.so/ - https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira - https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510313/how-i-built-this

[LIVE] Weird Growth #21 - Push for purpose - Nick Hudson & Elizabeth Knight

KC Co-Founder of Qalo, built a new category of product from scratch, silicone wedding rings. What started as a way to wear a wedding ring at the gym quickly turned into an online business generating millions in revenue which was up to $125million when he sold it. The tipping point? KC knew he was onto something when a Qalo ring ended up on an NFL player’s finger on a TV showed which aired for millions across the US. Although KC didn’t get results from that initially, what followed was just as amazing. Listen in to hear how you can access great resources, education, knowledge and experience from KC himself. What he is all about, setting realistic expectations, responding to your community and challenging what you think it means to go online. In this episode he gives some great advice on how to build an online store that thrives. Here are the main links from the episode. Show notes: - Qalo - https://qalo.com - Solving hollow – https://www.solvinghollow.com - Powerbalance – https://www.powerbalance.com - Hard knocks - https://www.hbo.com/hard-knocks - BetterLabs - https://www.betterlabsventures.com.au - RAC - https://rac.com.au - Skydio 2 Drone - https://www.skydio.com/skydio-2 - More on KC’s story - https://www.starterstory.com/stories/qalo

Weird Growth by Ammo Marketing #20 - KC Holiday - Qalo, Solving Hollow, BetterLabs - The fellowship of $125 million in rings

A girl from the country, Elsa is a strong and successful business mentor. Elsa Mitchell runs digital marketing workshops for business owners in person (she's old-school). She enjoys connecting with people and being her own bossy bitch.  Her first business was a hair salon which she started during the GFC and grew to solid client  base and sold it. Her 2 rules for business - 1) Be consistent and 2) Be a good human. From an event on the Gold Coast Elsa then joined forces with new business connection and now life-long friend Kristy. Kristy got sick but Elsa knew that getting their program off the ground was the right thing to do for both of them. Since then its been a success and she has managed to impact lots of business owners across the state. Listen in to her from someone who has been through all the ups and downs of an entrepreneur and just some good of fashion honest advice with no sugar coating. *Language warning* Show notes:  - Elsa's website - https://elsamitchell.com.au/ - Komo Digital - https://www.komo.digital/

Weird Growth by Ammo Marketing #19 - Elsa Mitchell - Business Mentor - Find the bossy bitch within

Dan has been on both sides of the investment table for startups. Now he is leading one of Australia's fastest growing Fintechs, WeMoney. WeMoney helps Young Australians take control of their finances giving them a 360 view of their money. Through education and a brilliant mobile app, WeMoney is on track to be a success. How did they get to this point? Listen and you'll find out along with some great growth marketing, money and startup tips. Show notes: - WeMoney -  https://www.wemoney.com.au/ - WeMoney's Podcast, We talk cents - https://wemoney-wetalkcents.simplecast.com/ - Dan's Headphones (Sony XM4s) - https://www.sony.com.au/electronics/headband-headphones/wh-1000xm4 - WeMoney is hiring, reach out to Dan - https://www.linkedin.com/in/danieljovevski/

Weird Growth by Ammo Marketing #18 - with Dan Jovevski from WeMoney - Money talks: Growing Fintechs, investing and helping the next generation

David has lived all over the world and spent years between San Francisco and Australia. His current day-to-day as the CMO for Nuheara is exciting but it's taken 7 years to become and overnight success. As we know hardware is hard. However, David and the team have made it work packing a lot of software and complex technology into their award winning earbuds and now a partnership with HP. Hear more about their journey on this episode of Weird Growth.  Show notes: - Naval Reservist & Cyber Security Specialist - Mark Anthony (Mark from Texas) https://youtu.be/v61FrT6rino - Nuheara Website - https://www.nuheara.com/ - National Acoustic Laboratories - https://www.nal.gov.au/ - Indiegogo Crowdfunding - https://www.indiegogo.com/ - Wanderlust - https://www.wanderlustperth.com.au/

Weird Growth by Ammo Marketing #17 - with David Cannington from Nuheara - Sound advice for global growth

What started with a tweet, quickly become a voice for social media users of Perth. So Perth shares stories, questions and local conversations. It is Australia’s fastest growing new media publishers with over 460,000 followers, average 5,300,000 impressions on Facebook per month and 1,400,000 website views per month. Now the So Media Group is raising capital to expand their community driven media. So, we thought it would be a great time to bring Co-Founder Adam Barrell on the show to tell us all about his journey and the weird growth of the community so far.  Show notes: - So Perth - https://soperth.com.au/ - So Media Group - https://somediagroup.com.au/ - So Perth Birchal Page - https://www.birchal.com/company/somediagroup - BuzzSumo - https://buzzsumo.com/ - Superhuman - https://superhuman.com/

Weird Growth by Ammo Marketing #16 - with Adam Barrell from So Media Group

From a Startup Weekend came Ardea Waste. Ardea provides online waste management to businesses across Australia. On this episode of Weird Growth, we discuss the War on Waste, Commercial Waste, The Blue Chili Accelerator and why it's important just to start and back yourself. Show notes: - Ardea Waste - https://www.ardeawaste.com/ - War on Waste - https://iview.abc.net.au/show/war-on-waste - Startup Weekend - https://www.techstars.com/communities/startup-weekend - Blue Chili - https://www.bluechilli.com/ - Slack - https://slack.com/

Weird Growth by Ammo Marketing #15 - Hayley Rolfe from Ardea Waste - Don't Waste Time, Start Now

On this episode of Weird Growth Jamie talks about the evolution of Carbon Group and how he and his co-founder Nathan Hood combined their bookkeeping and tax advisory businesses to create a one stop shop for core business needs. The group now has 180 people across Australia in multiple business advisory disciplines. Carbon provides accounting and business advisory services for business nationally. During 2020 Carbon Group continued to thrive. Cam and Jamie discuss all things culture, startups, professional services and Angel Investing. Jamie's advice for founders if you are not making mistakes you are not running fast enough. Show notes: Carbon Group - https://carbongroup.com.au/ Perth Angels - https://perthangels.com/ Rhinohide - https://www.rhinohide.com.au/ Vital Trace - https://www.vitaltrace.com.au/ Jason Calacanis - https://thisweekinstartups.com/ Cake Equity - https://cakeequity.com/ 

Weird Growth by Ammo Marketing #14 - with Jamie Davison from Carbon Group - If you're not making mistakes, you're not running fast enough

Matt Pound from Varsity Group shares his journey with Varsity Bar, Boat Parties, Consulting, Accelerators, Tech Gnomies, Burgers and Long-Machs in this episode. Matt's mix helped him create a unique hospitality experience and a cult following for American food & culture that has seen them open 6 restaurants in five years. Learn how he did it in this episode of Weird Growth. Show notes: - Atomic Sky: https://www.atomicsky.com.au/ - #LMTU - Long Mach Topped Up: https://longmactoppedup.com/ - Varsity Bar: https://www.varsity.com.au/ - Alan Watts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Watts - Shatki Mats: https://www.shaktimats.com.au/pages/yoga - Craberry Juice Guy - https://www.tiktok.com/@420doggface208/video/6876424179084709126?lang=en

Weird Growth by Ammo Marketing #13 - with Matt Pound from Varsity - Creating a scalable brand that people love

Constructive Software makes it much more enjoyable to build a house. When  you build with Constructive you'll be able to stay up to date with build progress, select finishes, and visualise a tailored view of your home design in 3D. The builder has control over the options for the homeowner making the process from start to finish more transparent and enjoyable for everyone involved. Founder James Salt originally from the UK, shares what it was like growing up in a family in the construction industry and why one summer they had a whole kitchen in their garage. Listen to how he bootstrapped his business from consulting to product and learn from the constructive advice he has to offer. Show notes:   - Constructive Software - https://www.constructivesoftware.com.au/ - Getting things done - https://gettingthingsdone.com/

Weird Growth by Ammo Marketing #12 - with James Salt from Constructive Software

Ex - Revolut and British Airways, Growth Marketer Lucas Calleja joined us in the studio while he was back home in Perth. He shared some fantastic growth lessons from experience working with companies big and small. After years of experience in funds, corporate and fintech Lucas now focuses his energy on building strong unit economics for companies. The key to growth according to him - feedback and testing. Listen to this great chat to learn how you can apply these world leading marketing techniques in your business. And we have our first addition of "Ask us anything" in this episode, where we answer any questions you have about marketing with some of the best founders and marketers in the world. Show notes: - Lucas Calleja's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucascalleja/  - Growth tools: driving incremental gains and other business considerations: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/growth-tools-driving-incremental-gains-other-business-lucas-calleja/ - Compositis: https://www.compositis.com/ - Revolut: https://www.revolut.com/

Weird Growth by Ammo Marketing #11 - with Lucas Calleja from Compositis

The Weird Growth Podcast is about how the journey to growth is often a strange one for founders. Startups don't grow in a linear fashion but in a weird way. On this podcast, we discuss all things startup, growth marketing and the steps founders take to finding their first customers.

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