Resources
Startup guides and insights for first-time founders
Insights, guides and press releases for first-time founders building a startup in Australia. Practical guidance on validating your idea, building a product and raising capital.
Guides
In-depth walkthroughs of the decisions founders face.
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October 1, 2026
The complete guide to raising money for an app in Australia
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August 27, 2026
How much does it cost to build an app in Australia in 2026?
Most cost guides give you a range and leave you to guess. This one is built around a more useful question: what…
Insights
Thinking on building, funding and running a startup.
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October 8, 2026
How to size your startup’s market so the number survives an investor meeting
There’s a slide I see in a lot of early pitch decks. A chart climbs from the bottom left to the top…
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September 24, 2026
Make something people want to come back to
Something happens in almost every first meeting I have with a founder. They open a laptop, sometimes a notebook, and start walking…
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September 17, 2026
Can you actually trade mark the startup name AI gave you?
Let me tell you what I keep seeing happen. A founder opens Claude or ChatGPT, describes the business in a sentence, and…
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September 8, 2026
Built by a builder: TradeCraft goes live for apprentice tradies
TradeCraft, a mobile guidance app for apprentice tradies, is now live on the App Store, Google Play and the web. It was…
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September 2, 2026
A deep dive into AI-native app development for iOS and Android
I’ve spent the past decade working alongside founders as they’ve taken an idea from a whiteboard sketch through to a live product,…
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August 25, 2026
Leveraging generative AI app development for smarter financial services
A few years ago, a founder pitching a personal finance app was mostly describing a nicer interface layered over the same spreadsheet…
Press Releases
News and announcements from the Hyper team.
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July 23, 2026
Hyper Ventures led Early Bird’s oversubscribed 2 million seed round
23 July 2026: Hyper Ventures led the oversubscribed A$2 million seed funding round for Early Bird, a functional biotics company founded by…
