Entrepreneur

With the Startup Spring festival well underway, the Google for Entrepreneurs team hosted a series of panels and workshops at Sydney’s Doltone House this week.

If making a handmade, high quality, highly perishable product, on an island south of Tasmania – with your marketplace being the whole of Australia – sounds like a challenge, well you’d be right.

A Sydney builder is hoping to revolutionise the way Australians buy, sell, and get rid of building products through a new app and online market place.

The ‘pitch and thrust’ of the business card and handshake is on the decline in favour of a new, more genuine style of meeting and greeting. It’s called netweaving and it takes the ‘work’ out of networking.

What happens when steadfast values like trust and loyalty collide with business? You get one of Australia’s most enduring family-run businesses.

Up until a couple of years ago, if you wanted a taxi – you hailed or phoned for one. Oh how times have changed.

Startup Spring 2013, the first nationwide festival for startups and entrepreneurs, begins today.

After watching his parents nearly lose their business in the recession Australia ‘had to have’ in the early 90s, Brett Birkill learned the keys to running a business.

Alongside the normalisation of ‘corporate social responsibility’ as a business term, the idea of creating new enterprises on an ethical foundation is becoming more mainstream.

Diamonds are not purchase many enter into lightly, so when Gus Hashem announced that he wanted to start an online business selling engagement rings, many said it wouldn’t and couldn’t work.

Leona Edmiston is one of Australia’s most iconic fashion designers, and the label baring her name has grown to become a stalwart on the retail scene.

When Renata Cooper started her company with nothing more than a humble Facebook page, she never dreamed at the ripple effects she was creating, quite literally. Forming Circles is an ethical and social investment company creating ‘ripples’ in the community through the power of giving.

New research has revealed just 20 per cent of Australian companies have a firm policy for buying Australian made goods wherever possible.

When Rob Dallimore returned to Worldwide Printing Solutions as CEO in 2010, the business was in bad shape. Dynamic Business sat down with the CEO to find out how the business was turned around.

The rise of ‘on demand’ TV – streamed or downloaded online – has meant that while our favourite shows are just a click away, the social element of watching together has been left by the wayside.

Long hours spent in the garage and living on two minute noodles for months on end: the start-up lifestyle has become a cliché, but the reality of running a start-up rarely follows a script.

Many university students can barely focus on getting through their next assignment, let alone start their own business.

The digital revolution has left many a time-poor small business owner struggling to adapt to new technology.

LinkedIn groups are a great way for professionals to network, share information, ask questions and build their profile. There are currently over 1.5 million LinkedIn groups covering a diverse range of topics.

When you think of a typical start-up, images of late nights in the garage or spare room quickly come to mind. However, students at Australian universities are doing their part to change all that.