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4 Mistakes When We Met Premier Palaszczuk

By Administrator | 9 May 2016

"One of my favourite idiosyncrasies of startup culture is its ability to embrace mistakes.

To me, this has always stood out as the key differentiator between a standard business networking event (where attendees tend to exhibit a contagious compulsion to fake their success level, for fear of admitting their mistakes or troubles), versus a startup networking event (where attendees tend to open up about their problems, ask for help and then later happily repay that good karma to others in the startup ecosystem).

So, in the spirit of embracing and learning from startup mistakes, here are four mistakes we made last week when we had the privilege (thanks to the good folk at River City Labs) of meeting Queensland’s Premier, Hon Annastacia Palaszczuk and her colleague, Hon Leeanne Enoch, Minister for Innovation, Science and the Digital Economy and Minister for Small Business, on-site at Brisbane’s upcoming Startup Precinct, in the TC Beirne Building in Fortitude Valley." Read more

Andrea Martins Green Socks 5 May 2016

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