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New research looking into mental health in startups and how founders and investors interact needs your views

Startup Daily - December 4, 2024 2 MIN READ

A new Australian research initiative aiming to shed light on the often-overlooked mental health challenges facing founders and their relationship with investors, to address a critical knowledge gap in the startup community wants to know what you think. Recent international studies have revealed a significant disconnect between founders’ mental health struggles and their willingness to… Read more »

Advice

9 ways startup founders can avoid learning about burnout and mental health the hard way

James Allston - September 11, 2024 9 MIN READ

In November 2021, one week before I was going to sign investment docs for our first investment round for Orkestra, I woke up having a panic attack. It was the second attack in two weeks, but I’d never experienced them before and haven’t experienced them since. That morning, my wife had to ring my cofounder,… Read more »

Cyber security

Cybersecurity people are so stressed out, they’re bailing from their jobs after breaches

David Braue - April 27, 2023 3 MIN READ

The lack of skilled cyber security talent is a bigger challenge for companies in Australia than overseas, according to new research that also found high stress levels and inadequate supporting technologies are causing many workers to bolt after a data breach. Fully 45% of the Australian CISOs surveyed for Trellix’s newly released global study, The… Read more »

Opinion

How to keep stress in check when you’re an entrepreneur

Samuel Pavin - November 20, 2019 3 MIN READ

Entrepreneurship is not smooth sailing. All founders agree on that. But how do you cope? The essential step in overcoming entrepreneurial stress is to accept that anxiety is normal. Here are three ways to address the problem. Recognise the normality of anxiety This may seem strange, but it is one of the most significant… Read more »

Advice

Soldier.ly’s smartwatch app monitors biometric data to help wearers manage stress

Gina Baldassarre - January 16, 2019 4 MIN READ

Soldier.ly has designed a stress intervention tool, a smartwatch app called Overwatch, that it hopes can help those suffering from stress.

News

Two thirds of founders ‘very’ or ‘extremely’ stressed, report finds

Gina Baldassarre - August 2, 2018 3 MIN READ

With startup founders working an average of 64 hours a week and the majority drawing a smaller salary than in their previous role, 96 percent report feeling stressed.

Advice

Pioneera helps address employee stress and burnout with a chatbot

Gina Baldassarre - July 16, 2018 4 MIN READ

Calling stress “the smoking of our generation”, entrepreneur Danielle Owen Whitford has founded Pioneera to assist in the early identification and reduction of workplace stress.

Advice

5 strategies to manage fear in your business

Andrew Griffiths - July 12, 2018 3 MIN READ

If we are honest with ourselves, fear is the constant companion of many startup founders and small business owners, particularly for soloists.

Advice

How I cope with stress

David Koch - February 22, 2018 4 MIN READ

Everyone copes with stress, it’s part of life, but I suppose I have adopted some strict philosophies on how to get it all done which work for me.

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