Tag: Funding

Business owners can now find the government support and funding they need, following an update to the Federal Government’s online Grants and Assistance Finder tool.

The plunging property market will put a number of small businesses at risk, particularly start-ups that often secure finance using the value of their homes, according to Rob Lamers, CEO of Oxford Funding, a subsidiary of Bendigo and Adelaide Bank.

Many start-ups do not initially have the capital to spend on compliance requirements and complicated legal structures. But there are some essentials you can’t afford to ignore. Here is Dynamic Business’ Legal 101 guide for start-ups!

Ten Australian-led startups are among the Guidewire Group’s 2010 Innovate!100 list released this week. The list is the result of a year-long Innovate! program of pitch slam and workshop events designed to identify and promote young companies and the entrepreneurs who drive them from idea to sustainability.

As a nation of innovators, we are very good at coming up with great business ideas. Transforming those ideas into a successful business – and raising funds to get that business off the ground – is where the challenge lies.

The Federal Government will spend $27 million to attract the “best and brightest” to complete 100 ‘Super Science Fellowships’ to prevent Australia’s brain drain.

If you don’t plan your budget, how will you know what sort of finance you need, how much and when? Dennis Mattiske looks at ways of integrating finance planning, reporting, analysis and adjustment to smooth the way from start-up to expansion. As all of our young guns can tell you, starting up a business is […]

Innovation may be the key to running a successful business, but if you can’t finance your business ideas, then you’ll have trouble getting them to market. Here is a grants guide to government grants and private industry grants and awards programs, if you’re looking for business funding. Adair Innovation— www.ausinnovation.org Supported by government and private […]

Roger Gillespie, founder of Baker’s Delight and Brumby’s bakery chains Roger Gillespie knows his dough. A fourth-generation baker, Gillespie started his first bakery to help fund a local school in 1975. This became the first Brumby’s. In 1980 he launched Baker’s Delight, to great success, and the stores kept coming. There are now 700 franchisees […]

Shane Yeend’s idea of a fun game is creating and building a new enterprise. The sort that is worth millions on a poor day, and millions more on a typical day. Enter Imagination Entertainment. If you play board games, watch TV or play games on your mobile phone or PC, chances are you’ve come across […]