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Seven years ago, siblings Abigail and Jamie Forsyth founded KeepCup. They envisioned it as a business and a line of eco-friendly coffee cups in service of a campaign for behavioural change: ‘from discard to reuse’. Today, more than five million consumers worldwide have joined their ‘Reuse Revolution’. Abigail, the company’s managing director, spoke to Dynamic Business about the […]
Google has launched a free training platform to help small businesses develop the digital skills they need to grow and thrive online. According to John Ball, Head of Google Marketing Solutions Australia, The Digital Garage includes 90 training modules covering a range of topics including website design, search engine optimisation, online marketing including social media, […]
Jackie McArthur from logistics service provider Martin Brower was named the ‘NSW Business Woman of the Year’ at the 2016 Telstra NSW Business Women’s Awards, held in Sydney last night. McArthur is the Managing Director ANZ for Martin Brower, where she supervises the end-to-end logistics and supply chain for more than 1,100 McDonald’s restaurants. She […]
Small businesses stand to benefit by borrowing from the rulebook of social enterprise and building strategic alliances in their local communities, according to social philanthropist and former Australian Survivor contestant, Lance Brooks. Brooks is the founder and managing director of Brooks Community Consultants (BCC), a grassroots community engagement and social sustainability consultancy. He also founded Communities […]
Technology is redefining the workplace and removing geographical barriers to worker collaboration, providing businesses with new ways to create ideas and innovate, according to Workplace of the Future ‘evangelist’ Amy Barzdukas. Dynamic Business spoke to Barzdukas, who is the Vice President, Global Solutions Marketing with video conferencing company Polycom, about the challenges and opportunities associated with the evolution of the […]
As a business owner, I am a natural giver. I am a big believer in the art of paying it forward and giving to others. It is one of the great joys of building your own business: being able to provide respected customers with advice, value adds such as extra time, additional services, or offering […]
Businesses will fall behind in the innovation stakes unless they buck the status quo and strive for greater gender equality, attendees at a recent forum were warned. Last month, the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce hosted a media briefing at Sydney’s Shangri-La Hotel. The event saw Lynn Kraus, Managing Partner, Sydney & Oceania Markets, EY moderate a panel discussion on diversity. The […]
With ten start-ups under his belt, Sydney’s Steve Fanale is nothing if not prolific. The industry-hopping entrepreneur, digital industry vet and former footballer has made it his mission to solve business problems with technology. His current venture, Drive Yello, is enabling restaurants, cafes and other food services to better manage their delivery function – or outsource it altogether […]
Evidently inspired by the booming trend created by Pokémon GO, McDonald’s Australia have launched their own VR app to coincide with the launch of their current Monopoly Game. The app turns the company’s in-store promotion into a mobile gaming experience that converges the digital and physical worlds. However, riding on the coattails of someone else’s success […]
Sydney-based healthtech start-up CancerAid has closed its Seed B funding round at $1.25 million, bringing its total valuation to $4.25 million. Founded in August 2015 by doctors Nikhil Pooviah and Raghav Murali-Ganesh of the Chris O’Brien Lifehouse cancer hospital, the company last month launched an app that manages a patient’s cancer journey, including their treatment and […]
The head of a multi-million dollar national solar panel business took top honours at the 2016 Telstra South Australian Business Women’s Awards on Friday night. Jenny Paradiso, the co-founder and managing director of Suntrix, was named South Australian Business Woman of the Year. She also took home the South Australian Business Women’s Entrepreneur Award. In […]
EnergyAustralia has invested $9.3 million in Brisbane-based solar energy start-up Redback Technologies, establishing a partnership aimed at increasing the uptake of reliable, affordable and cleaner energy solutions among homeowners. Under the partnership, Redback’s integrated hardware and software technologies, which capture, store and manage solar energy, will be promoted to EnergyAustralia’s 1.7 million customers in Victoria, […]
Telstra’s Online Essentials and Digital Support Services are making it easier for small businesses to thrive online, according to the company’s digital commerce solutions GM, Ricky Lam. “Whilst starting (and even sustaining) a small business has always been a challenging task, the reliance on the internet as a search tool means that these days, small […]
Fed up with the time and money they’d each wasted on a ‘trial and error’ approach to recruitment, serial entrepreneurs Aleksander Svetski and Todd Pierce partnered to develop an intelligent job-matching system that removes guesswork and uncertainty from the equation. Set to roll-out from November, iRecruit is a cloud-based, data-driven platform that uses cutting […]
The rapid growth of Grace Lever’s latest venture, GraceLever.com, has seen her twice nominated for the Telstra Business Women’s Awards (SA) in the ‘Young Business Women’s Award’ category, which she won this year. Her eponymous brand offers female entrepreneurs practical guidance and proven strategies to help them create businesses that are not just profitable and scalable but lifestyle-friendly. Having previously […]
New contactless payment technology, which launches in Australia today, enables small businesses to quickly and securely accept tap-and-go cards, mobile wallets such as Apply Pay and Android Pay, and chip cards. Developed by global payments technology company Square, the contactless + chip card reader is available online at square.com.au for $59, with free shipping nationally. […]
Government initiatives, such as the Coalition’s Incubator Support initiative, are of huge benefit to Australia’s start-up ecosystem but there needs to be a greater focus on education for emerging business people, according to Jack Delosa, founder and CEO of the Entourage, a leading educator and community of entrepreneurs. Announced last week, the Turnbull Government’s Incubator […]
It’s one thing confidently rattling off company statistics, industry trends and future predictions about your business to clients and customers, it’s another having a camera or microphone shoved in your face and being asked to recite the same knowledge to a journalist. [Editor’s note: this article is the second in a two-part series by Luke Buesnel […]
Most business owners start their business with a dream. They envision calling the shots (rather than being told what to do), remuneration in line with their efforts (rather than receiving a capped salary from an ungrateful boss) and working when they want (not when they have to). In short: more freedom, more money, more time. Sounds idyllic, right? Then […]
Succeeding in ecommerce goes beyond hawking one’s wares to an online audience. According to Holly Cardew, founder of Pixc, online retailers can increase their sales just by transforming standard product images into awesome ones. Launched in 2013, Pixc provides on-demand product image editing and optimisation to ecommerce stores. To ensure the process of managing and optimising product listings is […]
