Motivational Quote from Stephen Covey
A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal rela...
Investment in WA start-up businesses halved since mining boom, report says
[1] Based on Positioned for an Ideas Boom? Productivity and Innovation in Australia report, Australian businesses are having a difficult time with funding. [2] The lack of access to funding is an inn...
Canva battles growing pains in bid to retain its start-up ethos
[1] Australian tech startup Canva took its 50 Sydney-based workers to a hackathon in Manila. [2] Together with its 50 Phillippines-based graphic designers, they’ll be conducting strategic planni...
Inaugural Rare Birds startup conference aiming to inspire female entrepreneurs: “We should be thinking bigger”
[1] Aiming to build an international community of one million women entrepreneurs by 2020, Rare Birds will be hosting its first conference in collaboration with Vivid. [2] Rare Birds founder Jo Burs...
Motivational Quote from Walter Lippmann
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. ~ Walter Lippmann...
Paying someone else to put your name on it
[1] Customization has been around for thousands of years but because of technology, the mass market can customize just anything it wants. [2] Customers can customize their shoes at Shoes of Prey, mue...
SurveyMonkey’s chief Zander Lurie on following industry legend Dave Goldberg
[1] Dave Goldberg died last year and his Survey Monkey CEO role was taken over Zander Lurie, who was one of the company’s board members for six years. [2] Lurie was in Sydney last week for S...
Motivational Quote from Don Marquis
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates. ~ Don Marquis...
Choice of global startup ‘landing pad’ locations vital for tech export ambitions
[1] As part of the government’s National Innovation & Science Agenda, Malcolm Turnbull has revealed a plan of setting up no less than five “landing pads” around the world for ...
The five things this female entrepreneur learnt from building a leading Australian startup
[1]Caroline Woodhouse admitted she knew nothing about tech before she became a successful entrepreneur and before she was awarded with Telstra’s Business Women’s Awards. [2] Where4Events founder s...