Tag: Starting A Business

You need a lot of ingredients to launch a successful business, but a big pot of money isn’t one of them. Virgin founder Richard Branson explains why.

How to find inspiration in your failure, learn from your mistakes and come out better on the other side.

While not everyone has a business idea in them, some people just stumble onto one. This is what happened to prosecutor Peter Michie, who started his own dive school after taking it up as a hobby.

Don’t be a start-up failure. Defy the odds and create a successful business by using these tips.

Starting up for the first time can be a nerve-wracking experience. Here’s how to soothe your fears and boost your odds for success.

Depreciation has been made simpler for small business in the 2012-13 income year. There are three primary changes and they may impact your timing of asset purchases.

Creating a business with the intent to sell demands forward-looking thinking from the very beginning.

One young go-getter is sharing how she plucked up the courage to ask her former boss to go into business with her – and how she hasn’t looked back since.

Too many start-ups discount the need to invest in quality staff early in the piece, but that’s one mistake Dave Slutzkin was determined not to make when setting up Flippa. Here’s how the start-up CEO ensured he staffed the business right, from day one.

Mai Haven is responsible for introducing Konjac, the latest and greatest superfood to the Australian market, after using it as a home remedy to help her husband lose weight. Here’s how she used a vegetable from her childhood to create a business that’s set to grow 500 percent this financial year