Startups
In this collection we dive into everything startups, including: culture, how to how many startups fail (and why), how startups work, how to scale, what it takes to be a unicorn, how to build your dream startup team and more.
Strategic plan template (and how Canva tweaks it for maximum results)
You’ve been working on your business concept for some time, and it’s finally starting to show results. There’s a growing interest in your startup, and the headcount is slowly increasing. Although income is on the up, you realize that money and potential customers are getting lost because your internal flow is disjointed. Scale has caused the tight knit system of communication and processes to unravel. It suddenly dawns on you that you need a strategic plan template.
Bev Campling
Why do startups fail? (Hint: it’s bad management)
According to research published by Harvard Business School, bad management is the prime reason why startups fail.
Bev Campling
Silicon Sydney: Largest startup hub in the southern hemisphere to open late 2017
The NSW Government in Australia has injected $35 million AUD into an all-new project to support the growing startup landscape in Sydney. Anticipated to create up to 6,500 new jobs across many burgeoning ventures, startup culture and the entrepreneurial spirit is set to thrive.
Catie McHugh
4 reasons kindness is a crucial ingredient in the startup recipe
How much have you thought about kindness lately? To a busy entrepreneur, perhaps it doesn’t mean a whole lot outside of it being something warm and fuzzy that you experience every now and then. The truth is, however, that kindness may be one of the most untapped commodities in business.
Catie McHugh
3 big business ideas that sound terrible on paper (but actually work)
As anyone who has ever tried will tell you, starting a business is not easy. However, launching an entirely new product or service, in which the immediate market need is not obvious, is close to impossible.
Catie McHugh
New study reveals why only 2% of businesses succeed
Headlines typically suggest that all you need to start a business is an inherent killer drive and opportunistic luck, and you’re destined for success. Yet, if that’s all that’s required, why do only 2% of businesses succeed? Our research reveals that it’s the distinctive attitudes of highly successful entrepreneurs that hold the key to venture success.
Vivienne Egan
The ultimate employment battle: Startup BS vs. corporate BS
When it comes to your career, where’s your head at right now? Perhaps you’re working in a corporate, staring enviously at the Inc. 5000 list and wanting to get in on one of those hot tech startups you’ve heard so much about (or maybe you have an idea to start one yourself).
Catie McHugh
Startup success: How to predict it and avoid failure
Entrepreneurs are some of the most driven people on the planet, but they all started from the same point: with a passion for their product and no idea if their big idea would be a huge win or lead them straight back to the drawing board.
Kat Boogaard
15 quotes that really reflect startup life
It's true - startup life is pretty crazy! Each day is different, with more twists and turns than an Agatha Christie novel. We've dug around for fifteen quotes that really resonated with us on this wildly wonderful journey. Enjoy!
Catie McHugh
The World Happiness Report: The places where entrepreneurship is the key to glee
The World Happiness Report is a unique global study, analysing six key factors that contribute to the happiness of a country’s citizens, including how people evaluate the quality of their working life.
Catie McHugh
4 tech triumphs on the way for business in 2018
With the way technology progresses and reinvents the world as we know it, at breakneck speed, it’s both exciting and intimidating to imagine what even the near future will hold for us.
Catie McHugh
Startup life: Myths busted
When you hear the word “startup", what images are conjured in your mind? Do you think of a bunch of genius nerds in t-shirts noodling away on the next breakthrough app?
Catie McHugh
3 industries millennials have (allegedly) ruined
Millennials are the generation everyone loves to talk about. It would appear everyone has an opinion on who they are, what they represent and where it has all gone wrong for them (we humans are a funny bunch - the fact is, generations bring change and this negative perception of the newbie generation is nothing new).
Catie McHugh