Podcast appearances and mentions of martin hosking

Martin Hosking, Redbubble  Martin Hosking recognizes all startups need two things: “the gap in the market and the market in the gap.”  This week on 37 Degrees Latitude, Martin Hosking, CEO and co-founder of Redbubble, talks about a career that spans international diplomacy, Web 1.0 startups, the dot-com bubble, an Australian unicorn, and now, an Australian based print-on-demand marketplace supporting artists around the world.   U.S. Consul General Mike Kleine hosts Martin to reflect on the lessons learned in his career that include the value of focus, the realities of building a business with a global mindset, and navigating delayed-onset culture shock – with a little help from the San Francisco Giants.    Mentions  Redbubble  Glassdoor  SF Giants  E3 Visa Guidance  Get in touch with Martin Hosking on Twitter.    Stay in touch  Follow the U.S. Consulate General Melbourne Instagram @usconsulatemelb Twitter @usconsulatemelb Facebook melbourne.usconsulate/    About In this podcast, U.S. Consul General to Melbourne Michael Kleine meets the Australian founders and entrepreneurs who cut a path between 37˚ N & S and found capital, partners, markets, and success in the United States.  Mike Kleine is a career diplomat for the U.S. Department of State Officer who is currently the U.S. Consul General to Melbourne. As a former founder turned diplomat, he has a deep-seated interest in entrepreneurship, a fascination with innovation, and a passion for the U.S-Australia relationship.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Serial startup innovator & Redbubble co-founder Martin Hosking believes that aside from those enduring values learned from his mum, his University of Melbourne History degree, of all things, plus his career stint as an Australian diplomat, navigating the tricky politics of the Middle East, were perfect foundations for his eventual entrepreneurial journey.  Throw in returning to uni to complete an MBA and time working as a management consultant at McKinsey's, Hosking believes all that experience gave him one of the most valuable gifts a good entrepreneur needs: Perspective. In Part 2 of our chat, Martin reveals why competitors, even someone as dominant and canny as Amazon's Jeff Bezos cannot really successfully compete with,  knock off or steal Redbubble's business; why delaying a public listing helped Redbubble; and he offers sage but unexpected advice to younger would-be entrepreneurs, keen to make their mark. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Martin Hosking co-founded art & design website Redbubble to put visual artists' creative output directly in touch with consumers. But for its first 3 years Redbubble went virtually nowhere, with no traction and few sales. But little by little, with the support & belief of the artists themselves, and a few funders, Redbubble began to make headway. While initial scale up was so difficult, Hosking and his team have built Redbubble into a global design market juggernaut. Starting and still based in Melbourne, it has 300 employees, and offices now stretching to San Francisco, New York and Berlin.  A staggering almost 7 million customers bought on the website in just the last year alone. When COVID hit, Hosking was as shocked as anyone else, worried about his staff, artists, customers and yes, his global business. But Redbubble has boomed in corona times. Since COVID, Redbubble has seen 100% year-on-year growth. And Martin Hosking believes it won't stop there. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From about day 1 Redbubble's market was the world while it's base has always, except for a brief moment of consideration, remained Melbourne. It's rare for Australian companies to do this immediately for the global market, and even rarer for them to succeed to the level Redbubble has. But they've pulled it off, with a few lessons along the way.   Links mentioned in the episode - A review of Melbourne's digital marketplaces - Melbourne Startup Ecosystem Report   Scale Up is brought to you by LaunchVic.  LaunchVic here to support the startup ecosystem in Victoria. www.launchvic.org Facebook LaunchVic Twitter LaunchVic Support the show.

Drifting from crisis to crisis in an uncontrolled environment created by yourself, entrepreneurship is hard. And there's a good chance you'll waste a lot of time and hopefully develop some coping mechanisms. Is there a way out if you need it? Martin Hosking, founder and CEO of Redbubble, opens up about disassociation, the hard Mondays, and where he's come from over a decade a go to now.   Scale Up is brought to you by LaunchVic.  LaunchVic here to support the startup ecosystem in Victoria. www.launchvic.org Facebook LaunchVic Twitter LaunchVic Support the show.

Behind the website is an immense logistics network that Redbubble initiates, drives yet barely owns. We drive to Horsham and meet the very first supplier still printing stickers and artwork to this day. It's just one of 15 suppliers globally that prints the creative on the products shipped to individual customers.   Scale Up is brought to you by LaunchVic.  LaunchVic here to support the startup ecosystem in Victoria. www.launchvic.org Facebook LaunchVic Twitter LaunchVic Support the show.

The concept is mapped out by Peter, Paul and Martin. Then the pivot. Redbubble company raises $2 million from a business plan and an office is rented, but it's not an office. With enthusiasm and a vision they set about getting the company off the ground. Redbubble is chosen as the name. The early days of Redbubble are in full swing and it seems that someone swinging from the rafters of their first 'office' wouldn't have been out of place. Server in the boot - https://imgur.com/a/VJi3P3n See the website change - https://blog.redbubble.com/2014/02/redbubble-celebrates-7-years/"   Redbubble profiles Martin Hosking Russell Greenwood Paul Vanzella   Scale Up is brought to you by LaunchVic.  LaunchVic here to support the startup ecosystem in Victoria. www.launchvic.org Facebook LaunchVic Twitter LaunchVic   Scale Up is presented by Courtney Carthy. Support the show.

A two year old Redbubble was also reeling from the Global Financial Crisis. Shocked faces of Wall Street traders and the phrase "we don't know where the bottom is" beomes commonplace on the TV news. The GFC sets in and Redbubble's expansion plans are rapidly rolled back. A "Down Round" becomes necessary.   Scale Up is brought to you by LaunchVic.  LaunchVic here to support the startup ecosystem in Victoria. www.launchvic.org Facebook LaunchVic Twitter LaunchVic   Scale Up is presented by Courtney Carthy Music in this episode by Dmitriy Diomores, Acedis, Acedis, Yung Ferry and Max Sergeev. Sourced from Fugue.   Support the show.

Martin Hosking, co-founder of Redbubble, from when we spoke to him on Scale Up.  Like Culture Amp, Redbubble has their global head office in Melbourne, does the majority of it's business internationally and has scaled enormously.   Don't forget to leave a review where you're listening, and please let a friend know about Scale Up.   More information about the series and LaunchVic - www.launchvic.org LaunchVic is Victoria's startup ecosystem development agency. Our role is to help build the infrastructure for entrepreneurs and startups in Victoria Support the show.

In Episode 32 of The Startup Playbook Podcast, I interview Evan Thornley, Co-founder of Looksmart. Evan has spent most of the last 20 years pioneering the startup scene in Australia. He was the cofounder of Looksmart which was Australia's first NASDAQ-listed high tech company, which listed with an initial market cap of $1.2B, with a peak market cap of $14B. He was also the CEO of Better Place Australia, an audacious project that sought to provide the charging infrastructure to enable the mass adoption of electric cars around the world. It raised over $900m in venture capital from top-tier investors including GE, HSBC, Israel Corporation and Vantage Point Venture Partners In the interview Evan shares how to assess risk and identify the right opportunities, the best way to fund your business and the importance of being authentic. Show notes: - Looksmart - GetUp - Better Place - TedX Melbourne - Evan Thornley (Building a beautiful organisation to do something insanely great) - Seek - Atlassian - Martin Hosking - Redbubble - Shai Agassi - Dan Cohen - Antony Cohen - Alison Terry - Elon Musk - Evan Thornley (email) Feedback/ say hello:  Rohit@startupplaybook.co @playbookstartup (Twitter) @rohitbhargava7 (Twitter – personal) Credits: Intro music credit to Bensound Click here to listen on iTunes Click here to listen on Stitcher The post Ep032 – Evan Thornley (Co-founder – Looksmart) on identifying opportunities appeared first on Startup Playbook.

“Lean Startup” has become a popular concept in the world of entrepreneurship. All founders and founders-to-be have phrases like “pivot” and “fail fast” on the tips of their tongues. But for Martin Hosking, lean isn’t just a fashionable trend. He’s lived it. And after applying and experiencing lean methods over decades of launching and running tech startups, the methodology has gained a more sophisticated meaning in Hosking’s mind. It is not just a clever strategy for testing markets, but rather staying nimble to truly fulfill the needs of the customer, something that drives him today. “What I really like about lean is it puts the customer at the center,” Hosking says, adding a caveat. “You need to have lean, but you need to have a good strategic orientation. The customer doesn’t always know what they want." Hosking’s nuanced understanding of lean startup methodology highlights the deep expertise he’s developed over the course his career. And it’s paid off. After experiencing more than his share of 1990s dot-com boom and bust, Hosking is now CEO of Redbubble, an Etsy-like online marketplace for artists that’s become highly successful. But as any successful entrepreneur will tell you, it’s not just smarts and experience that get you there. Passion is the vital ingredient that needs to be present to keep a company going during the hard times and bring it out of the shadows to phenomenal success. It’s a kind of passion that can’t be reeled in or held back. It comes out immediately when you meet a true entrepreneur. Martin Hosking is a prime example; the passion and dedication he has for his work spills out from his fast and excited manner of speaking. In this interview you will learn: What it really means to go lean and how to get there The secrets to developing a passionate group of users How to be prepared when the unexpected arises The processes that Martin goes through in order to make sure that his business is always running in top shape What goes into building a successful online business & much more!

Shaun Eli Comedian & Executive Director The Ivy League of Comedy. Shaun was a regular on the Joey Reynolds Show for a couple of years. David is a third generation Fine Art Dealer in now 4th generation family owned & operated Fine Art Gallery in Philadelphia. Martin Hosking, the CEO of Redbubble for an interview. Founded in 2006,is a print-on-demand marketplace where over 250,000 artists are selling their work to people in 150 countries.