Tag: Start Ups

It was not enough for William Roetzheim to launch Marotz and then sell it for millions–he wants to do it again and again and then again.

When your company becomes bigger than a scrappy start-up, saying yes can really hurt growth. Here’s why.

This little start-up hit the jackpot by playing all the right notes in an online campaign. Here’s how you can, too.

In a bid to give small businesses access to the kind of buying power bigger organisations usually enjoy, one entrepreneur has launched a service 10 years in the making.

Confidence is everything in a start-up. Here’s how to give yours a boost when it feels as if nothing is going your way.

Founders are one of the most begrudged players in start-up land. Here’s why, and what you can do about it.

Despite the fragility of the current economic climate, SMB owners have reported they would start up a business again, with research finding 70 percent are happy with their entrepreneurial career choice.

Stratsec was launched in its founders spare bedroom, based on a vision to change information and communication technology security in Australia. Since then, the business has overcome a number of challenges to grow into the most-recognised cyber-security firms in the country – an achievement recognised when Stratsec won 2010 Telstra Business of the Year. Here, head of delivery and operations Peter Lilley shares his tips for surviving business setbacks.

Jim Marggraff, founder of digital smartpen business Livescribe, has faced no shortage of financial challenges as an entrepreneur. He launched just as the GFC hit, and battled to find investors to get Livescribe off the ground. But after 5 years- and one million smartpen sales- his company is at the forefront of the market. Here’s how he did it.

Microsoft’s acquisition proves tech start-ups are still hot. Want to be next? Learn from what David Sacks did right.