Founder & Tech Startup Specialist / Startup Success & Community Manager @ Stone & Chalk 🚀

Are you in the early stages of creating an innovative new mobile app, web app, SaaS platform, or any other tech product?

I HELP FOUNDERS LIKE YOU, ACCELERATE THE JOURNEY FROM IDEA TO SUCCESSFUL RELEASE AND BEYOND. 

So, why would you seek help?

When you’re creating a tech product startup, there are many unique challenges that can derail the whole venture, even before it gets off the ground.

The fact is… 91% of all first-time tech founders fail.

Here's the good news… These mistakes are easily avoided and you can 10X your chance of success if you have a proven ‘roadmap’ to guide you.

My goal is to help you defy the odds and become one of the star founders who turn their startup dream into reality.


Let me share a little of my experience.

Over the past four decades, I've been in business. From working in the family company to founding or co-founding over 8 successful startups… Conventional and tech based.

In 2012, I co-founded Buzinga Apps, a small app development company based in Melbourne.

We grew Buzinga to one of the fastest-growing development agencies in Australia, until late 2017 when we sold.

During this period, sadly I witnessed numerous clients fail to achieve commercial success… Many, for reasons I thought were totally avoidable (in retrospect).

This sparked my obsession with success systems for tech startups.

I delved deep into design thinking, lean methodology, lean startup, and exponential growth strategy, among others. And had the opportunity to hang out with a bunch of successful founders, gaining their insights about what it takes.

There are several fundamental steps at each stage of tech business growth that must be completed to have any chance at commercial success.

In the past five years I have coached five tech startups to successful outcomes and impacted more than 120 with advice, guides and training.

If you're a first-time tech founder and could use some help... simply follow me here on LinkedIn.

AND, subscribe to my '10X Founders Edge' newsletter.

Head to my website for more information and resources:  kuboom.com.au

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In 2024, I’ve taken on a new challenge. I’ve joined the passionate team at Stone and Chalk’s Melbourne Hub as ‘Startup Success and Community Manager’.

Stone and Chalk are the largest innovation community in Australia.

If you're the founder of an Emerging Tech Startup and are experiencing some initial traction, be sure to reach out to me…

Let’s explore how we can help you accelerate success and connect you with mentors, customers, investors and other founders in our community.

Graham McCorkill

STARTMATE ARE IN THE HOUSE!
Energy is super high this week at Stone & Chalk here in Melbourne with Startmate's Summer '26 Accelerator program kicking off this week. And, it's their largest cohort ever!

Huge congrats to Emma Grife, Ben Simai, Louisa Lin, Sam Monkhouse and Bell Allen for such a well organised in-person start to their national accelerator... We love having you in the hub!

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Tech Startup Specialist / Head of Ecosystem @ Stone & Chalk Melbourne 🚀

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I am a Senior AI Engineer and Architect with a background in Computer Engineering and a focus on building scalable, production-ready AI systems. Unlike purely academic engineers, I have end-to-end experience architecting, deploying, and scaling AI solutions that solve real-world problems.

Technical Expertise:
• Agentic AI & LLMs: Experience building autonomous agents using LangChain and CrewAI. Expert in integrating LLMs (GPT-4, Llama 3, Gemini) into enterprise workflows.
• RAG & Vector Search: Architecting Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems using Vector Databases (Pinecone/Weaviate) to reduce hallucinations and improve context.
• Multimodal Systems: Co-creator of "EvalKaar," Pakistan’s first AI Judge—a multimodal system analyzing video, text, and code for bias-free evaluation.
• Engineering Stack: Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Docker, Azure/AWS, FastAPI.

Current Focus:
As the Founder/Lead Engineer of PakGPT, I created off-line on device chatbot handling high-throughput conversations. I am currently diving deep into graph-based RAG and advanced model fine-tuning.

I bridge the gap between complex model architecture and business utility, making me an effective AI Trainer and Product Lead. I am looking to bring my hands-on experience to a Senior Engineering or AI Training role.

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