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My house smells like chocolate. No, I haven’t accidentally left an Easter egg out to melt, my house has just been “whizz’d”.
A little after 5pm the other day I had a cleaner come through my two bedroom apartment in Sydney’s north. He was “whizzing”, and he called himself a “whizzard”.
BORDER film buffs can write their own ticket — literally.
Albury Regent Cinema has a new program that provides patrons with independent or obscure movies that otherwise wouldn’t hit the big screen.
Working with ticketing website Tugg, the centre will host one-off screenings, provided there are 50 bookings for a movie.
LOCAL movie-lovers could see more small budget documentaries on the big screen thanks to crowd funding efforts.
A relationship between The Regent Cinema and the website Tugg Australia is providing the opportunity for independent movies to be seen locally.
The constrained Australian venture capital industry is about to receive a $100 million infusion earmarked forcompanies that promise to do good for society or the environment.
The Impact Investment Fund is the brainchild of Sydney-based social investor Geoff Gourley, entrepreneur and multimillionaire financial planner Julio De Laffitte and Southbank Capital, a Melbourne-based investment advisory firm.
One of the world's leading experts in start-ups is in Sydney to encourage investors and Governments here to back our young entrepreneurs. Paul Kadak reports.
Crowdfunding site Tugg, which enables people to decide which movies screen at their local cinemas, has landed in Australia.
Launched by Nicolas Gonda and Pablo Gonzalez, the platform has been operating in the US market since 2012 where it has managed to attract about 500,000 patrons across 4,500 movie screenings.
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GOT a favourite movie you're dying to show off?
Now is the time to speak up, with Daylesford Cinema offering showings of independent movies otherwise unseen.
The initiative is all thanks to a new crowd-funding website, designed to fill cinemas during quiet trading times and promote independent movies.
One of Silicon Valley's most prominent investors in early-stage technology companies has warned that Australia is becoming notorious for its limited appetite for risk, and that this is causing start-ups to receive unfair terms from venture capital firms and accelerator programs.
"In Australia you're getting it wrong, and it will not only hurt your long-term returns but also the prospects of the country. I want to invigorate your investors to take start-ups seriously," Mr Ressi told Fairfax Media.
He said the limited risk appetite was so systematic it was even present in some of Australia's prolific start-up investment groups, which loaded terms in their favour when dealing with new companies.
Australian cinema is set to receive a boost from a new crowdfunding site that allows users to buy tickets to niche films and have them screened in local cinemas such as Hoyts and Village.
