Yesterday
‘Not good enough’: Blackbird admits its gender pledge has stalled
Australia’s largest VC fund pledged to track data to support its rhetoric around investing in more women founders. Its first report shows it has gone backwards.
- Tess Bennett
This Month
- Exclusive
- Funding
Construction start-up lands mega $105m deal
Melbourne software company HammerTech has landed a $105 million investment from Californian private equity shop Riverwood Capital.
- Tess Bennett
This Olympian started her business seven months before Paris
Being a professional athlete is hard enough. Somehow, beach volleyball star Mariafe Artacho del Solar has found time to start a small business.
- Zoe Samios
The worrying signal small business is sending on the economy
If the sector is the canary in the coal mine, Australia’s economic growth is not looking good, according to a new economic indicator from accounting software giant MYOB.
- Ronald Mizen
- Exclusive
- Start-ups
Aussie tech’s climate crisis as start-ups face capital crunch
At least 100 Australian climate tech start-ups need to raise capital in the next nine months to avoid going bust, but say the bar for investment is sky-high.
- Yolanda Redrup
- Exclusive
- Small business
‘Naughty and nice’ list to be created for small business payments
Late payments by large companies are estimated to cost small and medium business $7 billion a year and contribute to their failures, prompting new rules from the federal parliament.
- Ronald Mizen
What this start-up founder learned from the public death of her company
Mina Radhakrishnan, the only founder of a collapsed start-up brave enough to speak at the Financial Review Entrepreneur Summit, hopes the industry values battle scars as she tries again.
- Tess Bennett
Cars, boats and houses won’t make you happy, says this Rich Lister
Property developer Paul Blackburne landed on the Rich List with an estimated $536 million fortune. There’s a success trap entrepreneurs need to be mindful of, he says.
- Julie-anne Sprague
June
How to tell if work stress is burning you out
Behavioural scientist Jemma King says most people have one of three “instant stress styles”. Determining yours could help you avoid burnout.
- Euan Black
‘I fire people just as quickly as my male co-founders’
High-profile female entrepreneurs including Airwallex’s Lucy Liu have hit out at sexist attitudes, and male-led venture capital investors.
- Tess Bennett
Top VC admits newer Aussie funds will struggle to raise capital
Younger venture capital funds will be the next casualties of the tough capital raising environment, even if they’re performing well, a Square Peg partner says.
- Yolanda Redrup and Nick Bonyhady
Super funds ‘should be forced’ to back start-ups
Employment Hero chief executive Ben Thompson has proposed a novel aid for the flagging start-up sector: reserving 1 per cent of superannuation money for it.
- Nick Bonyhady
- Retail Winner
- Women in Leadership
‘You need to trust your gut’: How to build an empire
The founder and CEO of MCo Beauty, the winner of the Retail category, knows she is underestimated. It’s what drives her to succeed.
- Lauren Sams
Australia’s competition at best level in 13 years: report
Small nations including Singapore, Switzerland and Denmark led the latest international rankings.
- Tom McIlroy
Beauty-brand founders who started their careers in banking
Four successful women tell how they developed their skills at companies like Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan before starting their own businesses.
- Lauren Sams
The Rich Lister who avoids risk at all costs
Richard White wanted to be a rock ‘n’ roll star. He ended up developing software for companies in logistics and is now the 11th wealthiest person in Australia.
- Julie-anne Sprague
- Exclusive
- Start-ups
Providoor scraps hot food to concentrate on frozen meals
Online celebrity chef meal provider Providoor will target a growing market for pre-prepared meals, after struggling with delivery services for its hot meals.
- Paul Smith
May
- Exclusive
- Rich List
More than half the 11 new Rich Listers are already billionaires
Two cryptocurrency giants, an under-the-radar mattress mogul, a former mechanic and an ex-NRL player are among 17 new and returning faces on this year’s Rich List.
- Yolanda Redrup and Michael Bailey
How a uni dropout went from Maccas to building a $100m company
Mark Woodland was expanding his education start-up before realising he’d overlooked a critical component for its success and he had to fix it.
- Julie-anne Sprague
How this intern turned paper-shuffling into a $3m start-up
Finnlay Morcombe found himself spending hours on a tedious but important task while on an internship. It turned into a fantastic business idea.
- Julie Hare
