Start-ups and insurers: a match made in time-poor heaven

By Carole-Anne Priest

When you’re just starting out in a garage or a kitchen or a single laptop on your couch, you might think you’re too small to bother with something like insurance. Maybe you’ll get it when you need it, right?

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Topics: How insurance works, Why insurance matters, Launching your own business, Financial Independence, insurance risks, myths, business, entrepreneur, management, family day care


7 tips for surviving the leap from employee to entrepreneur

By Nellie Akalp

Becoming a successful entrepreneur takes more than a great idea and important connections (although both do help). Making the shift from the steady life of a full-time employee to the unpredictable world of entrepreneurship requires a shift in mindset that many overlook. In fact, some of the work habits you so carefully honed as a good employee don’t necessarily translate well into the world of an entrepreneur.

According to the Small Business Administration, only half of new businesses will survive to see their fifth year. Making that mental switch from employee to entrepreneur can help you avoid being one of those businesses that doesn’t make it. Here are seven tips for thriving while adjusting to life as an entrepreneur:

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Topics: business, tips, entrepreneur


How to manage your business when tragedy strikes

By Penny Carroll

When Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg lost her husband suddenly in 2015, her colleagues weren’t sure how to react. They stayed silent to avoid adding to her pain, and Sheryl, already reeling from the shock and grief, was left feeling isolated and invisible.

It wasn’t until she opened up in a heartbreaking Facebook post that co-workers, friends and strangers began reaching out. It made for a painful, but poignant, lesson – one that the high achiever and bestselling author decided to share. Teaming up with psychology professor Adam Grant, Sheryl drew on her experience to pen a book on grief, Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience and Finding Joy, to help people deal with tragedy and give those around them tools to offer meaningful support.

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Topics: Women, business, tips, entrepreneur


4 tips for success from entrepreneurs under 30

By Jenni Ryall

Four young Australian entrepreneurs have given their top tips for making it big before the time you're 30. The business founders spoke at Macleay College entrepreneurship forum in Sydney.

The women included Expert 360 founder Bridget Loudon, The Best Day founder Whitney Komor, OneShift founder Genevieve George, Her Fashion Box founder Kath Purkis.

Their message was simple — the world is accepting entrepreneurs younger and more readily than ever before, so just throw yourself out there. Here are some of the best nuggets of advice given by the women at the forum, as reported by Techworld:

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Topics: Women, business, tips, entrepreneur


How to build a great company on a 4 day work week

By Emma Koehn

When building a company from scratch, two questions will pop up pretty soon into the process: how hard you should work on the idea, and when you should do that work.

There’s a dawning realisation in the startup sphere that burnout is a real threat for entrepreneurs, and employees are incredibly eager to join businesses with a nimble approach to working hours, especially if this means dodging a five-day work week in favour of other arrangements.

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Topics: business, tips, entrepreneur


Why building a business in your 20s is the best idea ever

By Tess Robinson

Ever been hit by a snowball to the face? Yeah, it stings. Tell you what else stings? Pulling 70-hour weeks while your mates are out partying, gallivanting the globe, or bingeing on the next must-see Netflix series.

In the not-too-distant past, I was an ambitious 22-year old-who had dropped out of my fourth university degree with about $300 in my bank account. My circle of friends was either backpacking the world dodging responsibility, pissing their wage up the wall on a Saturday night, or working in hospitality, spending their hard-earned cash on full-priced Zimmermann and endless cheese platters. Crazytown.

I, on the (very) other hand, didn’t just drop out of university to go down any of those particularly fun routes. I dropped out of university because I was confused about my future. And so, with no money, no experience and no bloody idea, I decided to start my own business.

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Topics: business, tips, entrepreneur


Older women are the new face of entrepreneurship

By Fi Bendall

There’s a new force emerging in the business world that not many people are talking about yet, but I think will be on the radar pretty soon: women who have paid their dues in the corporate world and at the age of about 35 decide to strike out on their own and start a business.

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Topics: Women, business, tips, entrepreneur


Become a master of time: Six entrepreneurs on how to make the hours in a day work for you

By Emma Koehn

Many entrepreneurs wouldn’t even blink at the idea of an 80-hour work week, but when it comes to making time for the most essential of tasks like sleep, the stats don’t weigh in the business community’s favour.

From understanding how long to spend on a company blueprint to dealing with the troubles caused by micromanaging, mastering time is something all business operators and entrepreneurs have to grapple with. 

Here are six ways to think about juggling time and maximising your company’s impact.

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Topics: tips, entrepreneur



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