Founder & Tech Startup Specialist / Startup Success & Community Manager @ Stone & Chalk 🚀

Are you in the early stages of creating an innovative new mobile app, web app, SaaS platform, or any other tech product?

I HELP FOUNDERS LIKE YOU, ACCELERATE THE JOURNEY FROM IDEA TO SUCCESSFUL RELEASE AND BEYOND. 

So, why would you seek help?

When you’re creating a tech product startup, there are many unique challenges that can derail the whole venture, even before it gets off the ground.

The fact is… 91% of all first-time tech founders fail.

Here's the good news… These mistakes are easily avoided and you can 10X your chance of success if you have a proven ‘roadmap’ to guide you.

My goal is to help you defy the odds and become one of the star founders who turn their startup dream into reality.


Let me share a little of my experience.

Over the past four decades, I've been in business. From working in the family company to founding or co-founding over 8 successful startups… Conventional and tech based.

In 2012, I co-founded Buzinga Apps, a small app development company based in Melbourne.

We grew Buzinga to one of the fastest-growing development agencies in Australia, until late 2017 when we sold.

During this period, sadly I witnessed numerous clients fail to achieve commercial success… Many, for reasons I thought were totally avoidable (in retrospect).

This sparked my obsession with success systems for tech startups.

I delved deep into design thinking, lean methodology, lean startup, and exponential growth strategy, among others. And had the opportunity to hang out with a bunch of successful founders, gaining their insights about what it takes.

There are several fundamental steps at each stage of tech business growth that must be completed to have any chance at commercial success.

In the past five years I have coached five tech startups to successful outcomes and impacted more than 120 with advice, guides and training.

If you're a first-time tech founder and could use some help... simply follow me here on LinkedIn.

AND, subscribe to my '10X Founders Edge' newsletter.

Head to my website for more information and resources:  kuboom.com.au

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In 2024, I’ve taken on a new challenge. I’ve joined the passionate team at Stone and Chalk’s Melbourne Hub as ‘Startup Success and Community Manager’.

Stone and Chalk are the largest innovation community in Australia.

If you're the founder of an Emerging Tech Startup and are experiencing some initial traction, be sure to reach out to me…

Let’s explore how we can help you accelerate success and connect you with mentors, customers, investors and other founders in our community.

Graham McCorkill

STARTMATE ARE IN THE HOUSE!
Energy is super high this week at Stone & Chalk here in Melbourne with Startmate's Summer '26 Accelerator program kicking off this week. And, it's their largest cohort ever!

Huge congrats to Emma Grife, Ben Simai, Louisa Lin, Sam Monkhouse and Bell Allen for such a well organised in-person start to their national accelerator... We love having you in the hub!

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Tech Startup Specialist / Head of Ecosystem @ Stone & Chalk Melbourne 🚀

25eight 

25eight is a B Corp certified company that provides high quality, fair cost education, mentoring and support to help time-poor businesses adopt innovative practices with a vision of decent work and economic development for all.

Small to medium-sized businesses (SMEs) are the backbone of local communities; providing opportunities for meaningful work, fostering local economies and account for 60-70% of jobs in most OECD countries. SME's account for 99.8% of Australian businesses and contribute significantly to Australia's economy.

However, small to medium businesses have a much lower success rate than larger businesses and face greater hardships in extreme market conditions. SME's are less likely to have digital strategies or have adopted digital transformations and lack the time, resources, confidence and knowledge to do so. Support is needed to help SMEs create a sustainable future and adapt to online and digital marketing channels.

25eight provides personalised transformational learning programs that are designed to fit into busy schedules and incrementally build capability and confidence across a business maturity learning journey. In adopting innovative practices, businesses are able to increase revenue, time, job opportunities and the longevity of their business whilst developing future of work skills that will help them now and into the future. Benefiting themselves and the community around them.

We work directly with business, in partnership with government agencies and organisations to deliver to their business community or directly to skillseekers wanting to increase their employment opportunities in the SME sector.

We also power Regional Growth Project to help regional and rural businesses drive innovation and increase competitiveness

www.regionalgrowth.com.au

Contact me at phil@25eight.co

Co-CEO and Chief Mentor

Entrepreneurs&Co.

Our Purpose : to provide a collaborative and inclusive community to enable entrepreneurs to achieve international success and link them to capital, investors, customers and associated alliance partners.

Director

Visa Jobs

Advisory Board Member

The Startup Network

Provided monthly pitch mentoring support for 1000s of Startups in preparation to being part of one of Australia most well attended Pitch Events. Winners receive a prize fund valued at over AUD$200k

Pitch Mentor

Digital Innovation Festival

The Digital Innovation Festival (DIF), is a unique initiative to develop, demonstrate and promote technology innovation across every sector of the economy and society. 
https://dif.vic.gov.au/

Digital Innovation Futures Victoria Ambassador 

Inspiring Rare Birds

To be a global ambassador for a global movement, Rare Birds. Our vision is to see a global community of 1,000,000 women entrepreneurs by 2020. Our mission is to give every woman globally the opportunity to become an entrepreneur by choice. I am also a mentor for DBO Golf https://dbogolf.com/

Global Ambassador and Mentor

Marketing Entourage

Marketing Entourage, since 25th August 2021, had been transformed into 25eight.co

Marketing Entourage is a human-centred marketing and customer experience (CX) education company. Marketing Entourage's purpose is to increase the self efficacy of founders and business owners to implement effective marketing strategy, building their entrepreneurial capability and critical thinking skills.

We do this through a number of support programs that combine effective and engaging online learning and targeted support from expert mentors.

Marketing Entourage originated as a consultancy that enabled economic development for Australians by helping startups and small businesses, transforming social enterprises and NFPs so they can reach their mission faster, assisting governments to create more impact for their communities, cultural and sporting organisations solve complex problems and develop highly engaged communities or purpose-driven business that are creating better ways of working find people that will love what they do and help them disrupt their industry.

We did this by providing innovative strategic services, research, campaigns and education. Our methods focus on co-creation, whether that's with our clients or our clients community, and allow us to rapidly solve complex problems relating to our clients customer interactions. We can assist with the high level strategy right down to the agile marketing plan; the campaign creation to the execution; the training of staff to the educating of customers.

These services are now provided through Me Three www.methree.co

www.marketingentourage.com.au
phil@marketingentourage.com.au

Co-Founder & Chief Mentor

#StartWest

#StartWest was created to support founders in Melbourne's West. Wyndham City Council with Hobsons Bay City Council, Maribyrnong City Business, and Moonee Valley City as a consortium, are running #StartWest; a program designed to educate and encourage people in Melbourne’s west to participate in the startup ecosystem. The program includes mentoring, meetups, and capacity building masterclasses culminating with the #StartWest Festival, which will celebrate startups in Melbourne’s west and inspire potential founders. https://www.startwest.org/

Entrepreneur In Residence

Ore Consulting

Business strategy, mentoring and advisory.

Elmwood (Brand Consultancy)

Elmwood - based across four continent are the world's most effective brand design consultancy. Led a multi million dollar studio with 27 staff and clients that included Coles, Bunnings, Officeworks, ANZ Bank, and Essendon FC

In addition to Melbourne we have offices in Singapore, Hong Kong, New York, London and Leeds.  We pride ourselves on the people we employ, the creative and effective work we deliver, and our long lasting relationships.

http://www.elmwood.com

Managing Director

I am the Co-Founder of 25eight, a B Corp™ focused on innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship. 

I also co-founded Entrepreneurs&Co., a social enterprise that provides a collaborative community to enable entrepreneurs to achieve international success.

My other roles include Pitch Mentor for Startup Victoria, Global Ambassador for Inspiring Rare Birds, Expert in Residence regular panellist/judge/MC/speaker for events. I am also an advisor for a number of startup businesses.

Before starting my own ventures, I held a number of international leadership roles within Nokia (Global Director of Customer Experience) and Nokia Siemens Networks (Global Head of Brand Architecture). With over 25 years experience in strategy, technology, marketing and building businesses, I help organisations define problems, enable groups of people to achieve great results and ensure everyone enjoys the ride.

Skills:
- 17 years within corporate global leadership roles – technology, sales, marketing, customer experience, brand, corporate affairs
- Global rebranding expertise related to company acquisition or joint ventures
- specialising in helping to make technology human. Global experience in product marketing, product design and development, 4G, 5G, IoT, VR, AR, MR, XR, game/app/website development
- Strategy, vision, market position, target customers, brand, content creation, channels to market, digital marketing, customer experience, measurement
- Advisor of startups, small/medium businesses, corporates, boards, government and international delegations.

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