Tag: Funding

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.

It’s an oft-cited statistic: the majority of small businesses fail in their first year for a variety of reasons, and chief among them is a lack of funding.

A number of high profile organisations are now taking applications for grants and scholarships aimed at giving talented and innovative entrepreneurs a leg up.

The University of Queensland’s technology incubator, ilab, has been given the tick of approval by the state government with funding granted for the next two years.

Few start-up founders are clear-minded enough about three non-negotiable fundamentals.

VC funding isn’t the end of the entrepreneurial journey, it’s the beginning of a new trip – here’s how to navigate it.

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.