If you are looking to grow and scale your startup or online business, this event is for you. You will learn about:

• Traits of successful startup founders
• How to raise capital from investors and VC funds
• How to recruit, retain and lead an exceptional engineering team
  
• Best practices in agile product management
  
• Essential legal steps for long-term growth
  

Thursday 15 February 2018

• 6:00pm - 6:30pm: Welcome drinks and canapés
  
• 6:30pm - 7:45pm: Panel Q&A and Online Business Manual launch
  
• 7:45pm - 8:30pm: Drinks, canapés and networking

Speakers

Mike Knapp, Co-founder at Shoes of Prey

Mike is the co-founder of Shoes of Prey - the ‘design your own shoe’ company that raised $25.5m from investors such as Khosla Ventures, Greycroft Partners and Nordstrom. Mike was Co-CEO for a time, headed up the software engineering team and also spent 3 years in China overseeing the construction of the company’s multi-million dollar shoe factory. Prior to Shoes of Prey, Mike was a software engineer at Google and, prior to that, a lawyer.

Ursula Hogben, Co-founder and General Counsel at LegalVision

Ursula is a co-founder and General Counsel of LegalVision. Ursula has assisted hundreds of businesses to launch online businesses, and assisted many startups to raise capital from seed capital from family, friends or angel investors, to significant investments from venture capital funds. Prior to LegalVision, Ursula was a Director at Merrill Lynch, advising on mergers and acquisitions, and assisting the bank to lead and join debt and equity capital raising, in Australia and internationally.

Lyndon Maher, Head of Product at Domain

Lyndon has more than 15 years of experience building digital products at scale that have been used by millions of consumers and businesses both locally and around the world. Lyndon is currently the Director of Product at Domain. After some amazing recent growth and success, Domain recently listed as a standalone company on the ASX. Prior to Domain, Lyndon was one of the first product managers to join the high growth startup Bigcommerce.

Sarah Atkinson, Principal of Pragmateam

Sarah cofounded Pragmateam to provide Agile transformation, training and delivery services to large organisations, technology startups and government agencies. Sarah led Agile Transformation at CBA and has since worked Australian Government’s Digital Transformation Office, Hey You, Expert360, SBS On Demand and Tyro Payments. Passionate about supporting leaders to achieve their strategic goals, Sarah enjoys working with teams on the ground to increase their capability through delivery.

Chris Iona, Former VP Engineering at Hipages

Chris is the Founder of Future Pass, and has spent the past 14 years building, leading and scaling Prior to that, Chris was an Engineering Director at Bigcommerce, and in that time helped grow the team through fast and strong growth. In 2014, Chris was listed on AIM’s 30–under-30 list for excellence in Management. He regularly presents at CTO Summits and conferences.

Rebekah Campbell, Co-founder Hey You, Founder Zambesi.com 

Rebekah has 15 years of experience as an entrepreneur and has started three businesses: two sold and the other ‘Hey You’ she is still associated with. Rebekah has raised more than $15M in venture capital and grants. Her first company launched a joint venture with Warner Music in 2008. Two subsequent technology businesses have attracted investment from high profile Angel investors in Australia, Silicon Valley, NYC and Europe as well as large venture funds and the corporate investment arm of Westpac.

About the Online Business Manual

It’s now easier than ever to start a business online. But growing and sustaining an online business requires a great deal of attention and planning.

The LegalVision How to Start an Online Business Manual covers all the essential topics you need to know about starting your online business, including:

• Setting up your online business;
  
• Financing your business;
  
• Building and protecting your brand;
  
• Selling products and services;
  
• Growing your team;
  
• Scaling your business; and
  
• Resolving a dispute.
  

The publication also includes eight case studies from NAB, Deliveroo, Hubspot, Airtasker, Honee, Wine Gallery, Prospa and SMT.

About LegalVision

LegalVision is a market disruptor in the commercial legal services industry. Their innovative business model and custom-built technology assist their lawyers to provide a faster, better quality and more cost-effective client experience. LegalVision is a leader in delivering legal services in Australia and has assisted more than 50,000 businesses. The firm was awarded NewLaw Firm of the Year at the 2017 Australian Law Awards.