{"id":35379,"date":"2023-10-20T14:38:13","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/michael-dawson-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T14:38:13","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:38:13","slug":"michael-dawson-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/michael-dawson-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Dawson &#8211; StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"90\" height=\"110\" itemprop=\"image\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/michael-dawson.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Dawson\" title=\"Michael Dawson\"\/><\/div>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17750\" style=\"margin: 5px; float: right;\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/michael-dawson.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Dawson\" width=\"90\" height=\"110\" \/>Name:<\/strong> Michael Dawson <\/p>\n<p><strong>Business name:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Foodcloud\" href=\"http:\/\/foodcloud.com.au\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Foodcloud<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Age:<\/strong> 20<\/p>\n<p><strong>State:<\/strong> South Australia<\/p>\n<p>  <span id=\"more-4285\"><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Michael Dawson is the co-founder of Foodcloud, a Facebook application designed to make meal planning a simple, social and stress-free experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Users plan ahead by \u201cdragging\u201d and \u201cdropping\u201d meals into a weekly calendar. They then build a shopping list, which orders the required ingredients based on which aisle they appear in.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dawson, who graduated from high school in 2008, says his goal is to become a successful entrepreneur on the global stage, although he\u2019s well aware of the challenges.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been realising just how much I have to learn, and how much I need the help of others. Specifically, I\u2019ve had to learn to push aside my pride and micro-managing tendencies,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the past, I was very quick to share my ambitions and visions of future success with everyone I met. I\u2019ve certainly found that coming across as levelheaded is essential.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In addition to holding the title of managing director at Foodcloud, Dawson is currently studying a degree in innovation and entrepreneurship at the University of Adelaide.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He also works for the Australian Taxation Office in client account services.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Prior to that, he managed xCell English, an online business providing English proofing services to international businesses, primarily eBay sellers and manufacturers in China.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am perhaps most interested in the Future Makers list with respect to the opportunities it might give me to meet other like-minded entrepreneurs,\u201d Dawson says.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI certainly intend to become a future maker. If there\u2019s a list for people like me, sign me up.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name: Michael Dawson Business name: Foodcloud Age: 20 State: South Australia \u00a0 Michael Dawson is the co-founder of Foodcloud, a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}