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SMEs owe the ATO the most, are small business owners using the tax office...

Australian small businesses may be treating the tax office like a bank - but it's a stop-gap measure, warns national SME funder, Scottish Pacific.
Silvia_Pfeiffer, Coviu

Bushfire-affected victims to receive free access to mental health services via telehealth

As part of the initiative, Coviu has teamed up with over 30 clinicians across Australia who have pledged to support bushfire-affected communities by offering telehealth services which are fully bulk billed.

Research reveals link between social video viewing and consumer purchasing decisions

Australian consumers watch an average of 51 minutes of social video a day – that’s over 6 hours a week

Digivizer and Investible are partnering to help startups accelerate growth using data-driven marketing

A new partnership between early-stage investment group Investible, and digital analytics platform Digivizer, will help startups harness the power of data-driven...
StartupAUS CEO and lead author of StartupAUS’ Crossroads 2020 Report Alex McCauley

Australia continues to build its billion dollar businesses despite political headwinds, says StartupAUS’ Crossroads...

Australia continues to build on the fundamentals to support a thriving homegrown startup ecosystem, with a rapidly growing cohort of $100 million+ companies and the average Series A (later stage funding round) almost doubling in size since 2015, according to Crossroads 2020

This Aussie software company has partnered with Microsoft to release a corporate wellness solution

LiveTiles (ASX: LVT), an innovative software company that empowers users to create their own intelligent workplace experience, is pleased to announce the...

Queensland to take startup world out of its comfort zone with world-first initiative

The Venturer program will build skills and character traits that are fundamental to entrepreneurialism, such as resilience, problem-solving, resourcefulness, risk management, creative thinking and leadership.

The Seafood for Good Accelerator is looking for B2C solutions to support sustainable seafood...

The future of our oceans depends on making ethical, sustainable choices that positively impact our environment.
Shendon Ewans of Gobbill

New tech allows over one million Chinese to pay Aussie bills with Alipay/WeChat, aligns...

Fraud detection and payment automation company Gobbill and Chinese mobile payment company AirPay, have embedded Alipay and WeChat payments into a popular media platform to allow users to pay Australian bills with China’s favourite payment methods.

Reckon partners with AusMumpreneur to help growing force of enterprising women succeed in business

Reckon has teamed up with the country’s largest community of mums in business, AusMumpreneur, and Women’s Business School in an exclusive partnership to offer vital financial literacy education needed to run a successful business.

This peer-to-peer lender is offering Shark Tank rejects an alternative path to funding

Peer-to-peer business lending platform for SMBs, ThinCats Australia, is offering hope to those who did not make the cut on the Ten Network's Shark Tank

Are you a tech start-up ready to conquer the US? This accelerator is looking...

KPMG Australia and Advance have launched the 2016 elevate61 accelerator, opening up applications to Aussie tech start-ups ready to conquer the US market.

Silicon Valley’s Lean Startup Methodology is coming to Australasia for the first time ever

Creative HQ is hosting LEAN 15, a conference on Lean Startup Methodology, coined by Silicon Valley entrepreneur Eric Ries, October 5th - 7th in Wellington

Australian business confidence surges to highest level in six and a half years

SMB confidence is now sitting at its highest level since March 2010, following an eight point rise according to the latest Sensis Business Index survey

Social enterprise accelerator Impact Academy is back to support change makers

Impact Academy is open for application for the seventh round of its core accelerator program, inviting high growth high impact enterprises to apply.

8 entrepreneurial skills you should teach your kids today [INFOGRAPHIC]

The same skills that entrepreneurs learn in the great game of business can be just as well be taught to the children of today and boost their creativity

Kick-start your dream business in just 5 days with this entrepreneurship challenge

Future Females is launching an exciting free five-day challenge ‘5 Days to Start’, to support 2,000 entrepreneurs to take five active steps towards turning their ideas into a real business, from February 4th – 8th 2019.

No more boring presentations, please. How to keep your audience glued to every word

Can’t get your audience to pay attention during your presentations? Leonor Brilha shares some tips on how interest your audience and keep them glued

Aussie adventure tourism company skydives into New Zealand via Queenstown

Australia’s leading adventure tourism company, Skydive the Beach is spreading its wings overseas, buying New Zealand’s leading tandem skydive company, NZONE

Slingshot launches CoVentured platform to connect corporate Australia with startups

More than two dozen leading businesses including Westpac, Woolworths, Optus, Australia Post and Lendlease have joined Slingshot to launch a new platform designed to connect corporates with startups and scaleups.
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Five ways to manage your time by managing yourself, with Helen...

Finding the time to tackle everything is one of the greatest challenges faced by business owners. To help time-starved business owners work smarter and not harder, we spoke with Helen Ebdon. The director of Affirming Business and Executive Coaching, she’s a serial entrepreneur who started her first business at age 25. She’s built and run direct marketing and communications businesses and she’s also the creator of the Take 15 Program for business effectiveness.

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New Zealand’s Xero eyes US IPO, further disruption as subscribers increase...

Xero recently held its annual meeting in Wellington, during which the company revealed some interesting details about its future. As has been widely suspected, the...

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