Tag: Entrepreneur

Australia’s first training and mentoring school for entrepreneurs, CEOs and high-end executives has opened its doors in Sydney.

For most people, blogs are a small creative window read by family and friends. Dynamic Business profiles five women whose home hobby became big business. Up first: Polka Dot Bride

In tandem with the launch of its E6 and E7 smartphones, Nokia has launched an online book following the stories of seven successful Australian entrepreneurs as well as a must-win mentoring competition.

Is it possible to model the success of one of the greatest entrepreneurs of our time? How is it that one man can succeed with 300 companies while most fail to do so with one?

I came to entrepreneurship on the birth of my first child. My corporate world didn’t look kindly at my first pregnancy 16 years ago and new to Australia, knowing a handful of people, I decided to start my own thing.

Entrepreneurs in the digital media and creative industries space will be the focus of think-tank X Media Lab’s annual Global Media Ideas conference, run as part of Vivid Sydney’s festival of light, music and ideas.

This week we’ve got a HP Color LaserJet Pro CM1415fnw with ePrint and Print Apps (RRP of $799) to give away, thanks to our friends at HP. To be in with a chance, simply answer the question below. The HP Color LaserJet Pro CM1415fnw Multifunction printer lets you print, scan, copy and fax, and is […]

A third (33%) of Australian employees say that they are comfortable being ‘friends’ with their boss on social networks, according to the latest Workplace Survey from the specialist finance and accounting recruitment firm Robert Half International.

Scott Wesley of Chandler Macleod Recruitment blogs about demographic profiling and social media as part of the recruitment process.

“Think laterally for a moment – we already have the technologies that can predict how potential employees will behave in a given work environment. So why can’t we map the workplace behaviours of key performers back to their use of the digital environment?”

Jennifer Bishop of LinkedIn blogs about how to get the most out of LinkedIn and determine your return on investment.

“This is a “networking activity”, not a transactional sale in a retail store. The question is not; Why are you wasting my time? – but more – Why aren’t you defining your target market appropriately and implementing an appropriate sales cycle plan?”