Entrepreneur

So what are the secrets to running a successful business, and growing it fast?

With the $484.2 million Entrepreneurs’ Infrastructure Program giving small business up to $20,000 in loans, a cut in company tax for those earning below $5 million taxable income and other measures, there’s a lot to smile about.

It began life as the brainchild of husband and wife team, Mike and Diane Morrell. Their product, the Genie ID now has the potential to help transform voting systems across the African continent and minimise electoral fraud.

Small business has emerged as a relative winner from Joe Hockey’s tough first budget containing long-term structural reforms including painful savings in the areas health, welfare and education.

Entering either the café or the gym markets is in itself a risk. Throw in the cutthroat eastern suburbs of Sydney, and you’ve got a powder keg of risk.

‘Seniorpreneurs’ are the fastest growing segment of entrepreneurship, and considered by experts and researchers as the next boom.

It’s a new method of pizza delivery, and one small business owner says it has the potential to save him on delivery costs.  Dan Gold, owner of the newly established MELT Pizza located on Melbourne’s Chapel Street, has opted to use ride sharing app UberX to deliver his Napoli-style woodfired pizzas to customers. Mr Gold […]

A consortium of three Brisbane universities are set to host a Global Business Challenge (G20 GBC), which gives away more than $100,000 in prize money and is a cornerstone event in the G20 program.

It was the thrill of creating something new that led Chris Guzowski to go into business for himself.

The dilemma is whether to be the nice girl, aka: the pushover, or the character from Devil Wears Prada.

Thousands of entrepreneurs behind commercial, creative, and not-for-profit ventures have already had their ideas funded by putting it to the masses and asking for their startup capital.

The Australian economy is at an interesting period of transition.

With input from Australian entrepreneurs and investors, the Crossroads report by StartupAUS puts forward a proposed set of solutions to accelerate the growth and maturation of the startup ecosystem.

Why are some people destined to be involved in startups, and other people destined to become CEOs of large conglomerates?

Procrastination: we all do it. Students excel at it, and many of us think it’s the enemy.

In Aussie health food circles, acai is as mainstream as bread or butter. More than 15,000 kilometres away, for families in the Amazon, acai berries are precisely how they make a crust.

It’s almost a rite of passage, that every generation laments the demise and failings of the next.

Starting any online relationship is fraught with risk – just ask anyone who’s tried online dating. These days though, more and more entrepreneurs are finding their business partner online.

This is a story ripe for a riveting Australian film or television mini-series.

Entering the local market at perhaps just the right time, Swedish cider brand Rekorderlig is well-known and recognisable for its sleek branding. Yet far from being the brainchild of a faceless corporation, it all started at a kitchen table 19 years ago.