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When Monash University students, Anh and Maria, surveyed their peers about how they could improve student life on campus, they were struck by a recurring theme; academic pressure was consistently a key contributor to students’ diminishing mental health - so they’ve created an app to fix it.

Predicting untapped opportunity in the private higher education system, Dr Brendan Moloney left Melbourne University in 2011 to start his own firm, Darlo

Not all of us have dexterous eye-thumb coordination when it comes to texting. So, anything that promises to ease our sore fingers is worth a shot, or two. Something that allows group text recipients speak to each other, is even better. gText, or group text, falls snugly in this category of must-try innovations, especially for those of us who send out SMS-es to a bunch of people, and, maybe, several times a day -- like, say, business owners who have discovered the joys of SMS martketing.

It would be impossible to watch these videos and not feel a slight warm and fuzzy feeling about the future of entrepreneurship in Australia. On Friday night, the bright young things at Entrepreneurs Week (eWeek) concluded seven days of entrepreneurial activities with the program's flagship event, the Innovators’ Challenge.