The government has thrown its support behind the nation’s SMBs with the announcement of a major new fund using Commonwealth bonds to back small business.
“Small businesses don’t have the revenue to engage a developer, so the solutions have to be generic enough so most small businesses can use them but specific enough to solve a particular problem.”
Despite the wealth of booking platforms out there, Honee posits that booking a salon service still, more often than not, means having to pick up the phone.
Westpac has partnered with Melbourne fintech company Assembly Payments to launch Presto, a payments solution for small businesses, to its business customers.
After spending its first few years in the Australian market getting a lay of the land, the local arm of global web domain registrar GoDaddy has launched a big marketing push taking aim at the 60 percent of small businesses that don’t have a website.
Digital development and design agency Audacious Digital came out of a Global Startup Battle weekend run at Toowoomba coworking space Canvas in 2015.
Growing up, Julie Boulton dreamed of being a brain surgeon, because she was fascinated by the way humans work. A couple of years into her medical degree, however, she was diagnosed with a brain disorder; having developed tremors, a career as a surgeon was suddenly off the table. “One day I was sitting on the… Read more »
Writally simply asks wannabe bloggers what kind of post they are looking to write and then delivers them a step by step recipe to help them actually write it.
Bard is particularly passionate about the small to medium businesses that make up the bulk of the 200,000 clients using Campaign Monitor.
Sydney crowdfunding platform StartSomeGood has announced a new partnership with Western Australia non-for-profit Impact Seed to stimulate the social enterprise ecosystem in Australia. The partnership will focus on helping social businesses harness the power of crowdfunding and explore new markets and opportunities.
Melbourne startup Powered Local is looking to help small businesses to hone in on perhaps the most valuable form of marketing: word of mouth.
Lending startup Moula, which provides small businesses with up to $250,000 in loans based on their data, has today announced the addition of Chris Ridd, former managing director of Xero, to its board as it gears up for growth.
Australian delivery service startup Sendle has today announced a partnership deal with NAB to improve parcel delivery for the bank’s small business customers around Australia. The collaboration is part of Sendle’s aim to help small businesses take on big businesses by levelling the logistics playing field.
Today NAB and Telstra announce a startup joint venture to offer small businesses a digital marketplace. The new marketplace called Proquo will provide more than two million Australian small businesses an online platform where they can network, trade or swap services with one another.
Looking to further support and boost local businesses working in the B2C sector is Sydney startup InPin.biz. The startup is creating an online ecosystem for small businesses and diverse professionals to digitally market themselves.
Here's who owns fintech unicorn Tyro - and Atlassian's Mike Cannon-Brookes tops the list
Tesla's global chair, Robyn Denholm, worries Australia's grown complacent and afraid of risk
Landlord management app Instarent hopes to drive a new technology property boom
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