Startup

Australia has moved up two places on the 2014 Global Innovation Index (GII) and recorded the top ranking for trade and competition.

This year 1,200 Tax Help volunteers will be on hand at 830 community centres across Australia to provide support to people having difficulty completing their own tax returns.

The chance to be recognised as an outstanding entrepreneur and small business operator is something that can work wonders for any business – and there are a number of opportunities currently on offer.

Small businesses across Australia stand to receive a much needed cash injection with a number of lucrative grants currently on offer.

The rapid pace of technological change can be dizzying for even the more astute business owners, but help is at hand.

A former marketing executive at popular dating-app Tinder, has filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against its co-founders.

Escape rooms and cat-cafés are only two of the unusual themed businesses to hit the streets of Melbourne.

‘The devil is in the detail’ is a phrase that does not apply here. This is an app which really is as simple as it sounds – perhaps even more simple.

After more than 350 startups vyed for a chance at $5 million in the Inaugural Big Pitch competition, two lucky start-ups have chosen to share the prize.

The wealthy financial services industry is being targeted by emerging tech start-ups keen to take a share in the huge profits being generated in the sector. The founders of two of Australia’s most successful technology companies, SEEK and Atlassian, this week warned that the “insane” profits of the major banks (amounting to nearly $30bn per […]

The solution to tackling youth unemployment is to encourage entrepreneurship. At least that’s the mission of the G20 Young Entrepreneurs’ Alliance, convening in Sydney next month.

It’s a problem for the smaller business, and similarly a start-up business: it’s difficult to sell your products or services because you’re constantly up against larger, more established competitors.

With the cost of car ownership set to rise as the federal government seeks to reinstall the fuel excise, a number of entrepreneurs a working away on smart solutions that solve common car dilemmas.

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.

Victoria’s sustainable business innovators have two weeks until entries close for the Premier’s Sustainability Awards 2014.

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.

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.

So you’ve decided to make the jump into the world of franchising… Now all you need to do is chose the perfect business from more than 1,300 franchise systems operating in Australia. Piece of cake, right?

Deciding to bite the bullet and start a business is really only half of the first step – the other half is deciding whether you want to go it alone, or purchase a franchise.