By now businesses should be hearing the message loud and clear: if you don’t take care of your employees, they won’t be your employees anymore. Putting employee mental health first has been a priority for Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment – and they’re seeing a positive impact not just on their performance, but the feeling towards… Read more »
Your earlier pitch was all about potential, but now you’re in the late-stage finance arena, it’s time to focus on performance. As a founder of a late-stage startup, you’ll be used to making key decisions to grow your business. At this stage, it’s likely you’ve got your basic business structure bedded in – sales, marketing,… Read more »
What happens when a sports-mad CEO joins a small NGO disability charity? A tech upgrade for its remote support “coaches”, for a start. The charity sector isn’t exactly known for its cutting-edge tech, but Wallara isn’t your average charity. “We’ve invested a lot in our digital side,” says CEO Phil Hayes-Brown. “When I came here… Read more »
If you want to poach-proof your business, start by creating the kind of culture people thrive in. Poaching staff is one of the harsh realities of the tech world. Competitors are looking to grow their business fast and your employees are talented experts who are already fully trained up. Poaching is basically a super-irritating form… Read more »
Startup hub Fishburners has opened entries for its Tech for Good Awards, designed to promote startups harnessing technology to help solve some of the biggest challenges faced by people and the planet. The awards feature seven categories, with reach winner receiving a $5,000 cash prize. The winner of the Tech For Good Excellence Award will… Read more »
With people returning to the skies for work travel, it’s time for businesses to ensure they are prepared for corporate travel, 2022 style. As restrictions across the globe relax, travelling for work is back on the rise. The numbers don’t lie: data from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) shows that passenger numbers in… Read more »
After almost a decade running a product development agency, Karl Vaupel understood just how tricky the process of designing a physical product can be. And so Ground Control was born: a platform that allows new and established brands to design or redesign their products to make them more affordable and sustainable. “Currently designing a physical… Read more »
Subscription-based models in eCommerce have exploded in recent years, which has been great for businesses in that they generate customer loyalty and create an ongoing revenue stream. However, some eCommerce businesses are struggling to create the subscription model that works for their products and customers, meaning the customers can at times be missing out on… Read more »
Australian company Penny Skateboards is skating through their expansion into the US thanks to their decision to get on board with Amazon. Penny Skateboards has been successfully operating since 2010, when founder Ben Mackay started manufacturing out of Brisbane. He named his unique boards Penny after his sister, a name that people soon started to… Read more »
After years of perfecting his product, Melbourne-based entrepreneur Daniel Kitay launched FUNDAY Natural Sweets in May 2021 to change how we view, and taste, lollies. In that short time, he’s built a brand that’s already starting to expand internationally. It’s hard to believe that FUNDAY Natural Sweets only launched last year. It already feels like… Read more »
For many men and women, becoming a parent isn’t an easy journey. And while the focus on reproductive health is mostly on women, up to half (40–50%) of all infertility cases actually relate to men When Ashwin Ramachandran’s uncle spent more than $80,000 to have his first child, he saw there was a huge gap… Read more »
From an idea conceived over a farm kitchen table to a $100 million business in seven years, Australian livestock management platform AgriWebb has been anything but an overnight success, says co-founder and Executive Chairman Justin Webb. Looking back on setting up AgriWebb with John Fargher and Kevin Baum in 2014, self-confessed “math geek” Justin Webb… Read more »
Supply chains are incredibly complex networks with many different sources of data across business units and stakeholders that need to be analysed and integrated. Both Dr Hassan Mirzahosseinian and Dr Aghil Rezaei Somarin saw these issues first hand having worked with many large enterprise clients in both product development and consulting. In a bid to… Read more »
In the B2B sales world, growth is usually a function of connections, capital and crew. For emerging brands, these resources are often in short supply. For this reason, brands are limited in their ability to increase revenue in a short period, and retailers need to constantly find new stock for their customers to keep them… Read more »
Australian online fashion boutique St Frock has made good business out of being ahead of the tech curve. It all started back in 2005 when Sandradee Makejev started selling trendy women’s dresses at a Bondi Beach market stall. In 2009, she started a Facebook page for St Frock. At the time, social media’s potential as… Read more »
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