entrepreneurship
Strategy: Responding to stealthy market changes
It is a truism among seasoned entrepreneurs that the business you plan to launch is never the business you will be running in three years time. Despite the countless hours you invest understanding the market, your product and the opportunity, and analysing how the competitive landscape might change once you enter the affray, there will [...]
Making a killing
Are you ready to rumble? These six young entrepreneurs have a net worth exceeding $100 million… and their average age is only 32! There is a little known resource available to Australia’s young corporate elite. It is called the YEO (Young Entrepreneurs’ Organisation). The peer-to-peer network is made up of young, confident and successful business [...]
Going global: Exporting 101
Most Australian entrepreneurs claim to think big from the outset. But you need more than a good idea and a broad Aussie smile to conquer the world. Bi-lateral free trade agreements are tearing down barriers, but exporters must still negotiate the vestiges of international protectionism and the rollercoaster Aussie dollar.
Where’s the gold?
Imagine if Australia’s innovators and entrepreneurs received the same media attention as sporting celebrities. Maybe we would find Ziggy Switkowski being tested for caffeine ingestion before Telstra’s next annual general meeting. Or Coles Myer board members being cited for boardroom melees. I know there are a few members of the business elite that I would [...]
The Entrepreneur vs. Venture Capitalist
A meeting of minds or clash of heads? It is little wonder that only a small proportion of investment proposals ever successfully attract venture capital. The relationship between entrepreneurs and investors can sometimes be likened to the relationship between contestants in a boxing match, entering the ring from opposite corners, both adamant they are up [...]
Memoirs of a tech wreck insider
It’s now four years since the ‘tech-wreck’ of April 2000. Four years!!! Can you believe it? Yet, it’s so hard to move on. We continue to talk about it, romanticize it, lament it, tut-tut at our folly. And we definitely can’t stop writing about it. Like the unnamed narrator in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, [...]
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