38 episodes

A new show about startups founded in Melbourne scaling to global success. What can founders, teams, investors and fellow Melbourne entrepreneurs learn from their success and failures? Find out on Scale Up by LaunchVic.

More information go to www.launchvic.org

Season 1: Culture Amp - founded in 2012 to help medium to large companies scale and grow their culture. In 2018 they raised a $49 million Series C round.

Season 2: Redbubble - founded in 2006 as a three sided global artist marketplace with easy to use print on demand services. In 2016 Redbubble went public, listing on the ASX. LaunchVic is Victoria's startup ecosystem development agency.

It’s role is to help build the infrastructure for entrepreneurs and startups in Victoria.

Scale Up LaunchVic

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    • 4.3 • 44 Ratings

A new show about startups founded in Melbourne scaling to global success. What can founders, teams, investors and fellow Melbourne entrepreneurs learn from their success and failures? Find out on Scale Up by LaunchVic.

More information go to www.launchvic.org

Season 1: Culture Amp - founded in 2012 to help medium to large companies scale and grow their culture. In 2018 they raised a $49 million Series C round.

Season 2: Redbubble - founded in 2006 as a three sided global artist marketplace with easy to use print on demand services. In 2016 Redbubble went public, listing on the ASX. LaunchVic is Victoria's startup ecosystem development agency.

It’s role is to help build the infrastructure for entrepreneurs and startups in Victoria.

    4.1 The quest to level up

    4.1 The quest to level up

    In this episode, we follow one company on a journey of growth. Nathan Chan is the CEO of Foundr Magazine, an online media and education business which is fast becoming the go-to online source for entrepreneurs and start-ups.

    Over the years, Nathan had interviewed people like Richard Branson, Tony Robbins and Gary Vee. And Foundr had been producing great content and top-level training resources.

    But in 2016, Nathan found himself struggling with an issue that all successful start-ups find themselves struggling with at some point in time: scaling. And that's where Steve McLeod comes in.
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    • 27 min
    4.2 Growing through discomfort

    4.2 Growing through discomfort

    Disrupting a billion-dollar industry can prove to be a … traumatic experience. At least, that’s what DJ Dikic discovered when building Palette and Tint — two really exciting start-ups — with the mission to change the century-old industry of paint.

    Helping DJ on his path is Adam Lewis, an established businessman with a mentoring style that is pretty unconventional. And as you'll hear, DJ's reaction to being confronted is quite striking!

    On this episode, you’ll learn about growing through discomfort as we follow DJ’s journey through adversity and personal growth.
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    • 20 min
    4.3 It's hard work (but we have fun along the way)

    4.3 It's hard work (but we have fun along the way)

    This story begins with Kirsteene Phelan throwing it all on the line. After she witnesses Rome2rio's CEO, Rod Cuthbert, meeting with a PR firm in their shared office space, she saunters over and tells him to ditch the PR firm and hire her instead! This moment marks the beginning of Kirsteene's career in the travel industry.

    Kirsteene and Rod begin working together at Rome2rio, and as the years go by they develop a wonderful friendship. They travel to industry conferences together, and Rod helps elevate Kirsteene's career in the travel industry by inviting her on conference panels and by opening new doors for her.

    And yes, the travel industry is a lot of hard work. But the duo do get up to some shenanigans along the way. And one particular prank they play at an industry conference leads to an interesting outcome …
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    • 20 min
    4.4 Facing conflict head-on

    4.4 Facing conflict head-on

    Australian radio legend, Jules Lund, had a great business idea and the determination, confidence and contacts to pull it off. However, he quickly realised that although he had the enthusiasm, he didn't quite have the business acumen to make TRIBE successful …

    Enter Anthony Svirskis, an experienced entrepreneur who Jules hired to be TRIBE's CEO (and Jules' new boss). But from the get-go, their relationship was pretty unconventional.

    In today's episode of Level Up, Jules and Ant teach us what they've learnt about open communication, how to learn from each other's strengths, and the value of confronting conflict head-on.
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    • 19 min
    4.5 Navigating a male-dominated industry

    4.5 Navigating a male-dominated industry

    Liz B, and her mentor Jacqui Loustau, are two powerful women working in cybersecurity. They first crossed paths at an industry event where Liz made quite an impression on Jacqui before they even spoke for the first time.

    Fast forward to today, where Liz and Jacqui have set up the AWSN (the Australian Women in Security Network) which supports, inspires and mentors women working in security.

    In this episode, you'll hear some of the challenges they've faced over their careers, the lessons they've learnt along the way, as well as a heartbreaking story (with a happy ending) that really drives home the value of having a mentor.
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    • 24 min
    4.6 Conquering the chaos

    4.6 Conquering the chaos

    Kinfolk is a social enterprise cafe that provides training and work experience for people in marginalised communities. It was started by Jarrod Briffa, who's lack of hospitality experience often led to struggles. Enter Paul McConville, a loyal customer at Kinfolk, and a hospitality industry veteran.

    It wasn't uncommon for challenges to be afoot at Kinfolk. But one day, after the power tripped out yet again, Paul decided that Kinfolk needed a bit of help.

    Paul began to help out, and eventually became Jarrod's mentor. But what he didn't expect was the impact this experience would have on him. In this episode, you'll hear how Paul and Jarrod have been inspiring one another, both professionally and personally, for over ten years.
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    • 21 min

Customer Reviews

4.3 out of 5
44 Ratings

44 Ratings

MaksP ,

So Close To Home

Excellent show, as a member of a Melbourne start up this podcast rings very true. It's encouraging to hear others with simmilar experiences of the highs and lows of start up life. I'm really looking forward to more episodes of this show, and mroe of the comfort/therapy that it provides!

babyboomer from camberwell ,

Hockey sticks episode

Entertaining and informative- impressed by the openness and willingness to share information. Makes the world of business sound like an interesting place. Also loved the little updates and side bits of information inserted in podcast - meant the story was clearer and easier to follow. Looking forward to next episode.

Just finished final episode- sorry it is over.
Great inspirational series for anyone not just entrepreneurs.

JacquiJones ,

Scale Up - stole my title

Absolutely loving the new Scale Up podcast from LaunchVic. I discovered it because I wanted to call our podcast with the same title! Being a founder of a tech company myself, the interviews and commentary is relevant to our business. No one knows what it is really like running an early stage growth company until you’re in the game.

Keep going Scale Up! Would love to hear stories about other Australian SaaS startups making it big in the US and other markets.

Jacqui Jones, Founder / CEO, Way We Do

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