When it comes to women in business, Australia is lagging behind the rest of the world. Oliver Millman compiled a list of the 10 up-and-coming female entrepreneurs who are currently making the biggest waves in the start-up world.
Start ups
Simons: media inquiry can work if politicians keep hands off content
As with so much this government does, there is still plenty of room for messing up on the planned, kind-of-but-not-quite-announced media inquiry.
Next year’s favourite websites
What’s the next big Twitter or 4Square? Perhaps it’s the program that uses Facebook to study. Or oBaz, the site that brings you together to get a group discount on a product. Check out BizSpark, a program by Microsoft that supports start-ups.
The digital economy: trading coins for clicks
The future of money could be far less about dollars, superpowers or coinage if virtual currencies ever cross the line from virtual to real, writes Charis Palmer. Bitcoin electronic currencies says it is changing finance the same way the web changed publishing.
Top start-ups from SXSW
Back in 2007 an obscure little start up called Twitter appeared at the South by Southwest interactive conference. Who’s next? Oliver Milman outlines the most exciting and promising businesses from this year’s crop.
I bet my life savings to create an online start-up
Quit your dream job, invest everything you own and launch your own business — a networking site for creative professionals — right in the middle of the GFC. No biggie right? It’s hard but it can work, writes Pip Jamieson.
Are business plans dead in the age of Twitter?
In an age where every hot start-up seems to have been launched by a teenager in his parents’ garage on the smell of an oily rag, has the old fashioned business plan become an anachronism? After all: Twitter still doesn’t have one.
How Avatar can help your business ideas
Entrepreneurs could learn a lot from James Cameron’s making of Avatar, writes Megan Berry. Like taking the time to plan an idea correctly (Cameron first wrote Avatar in ‘94) and throwing in a dash of controversy for good measure.
New media – where are the IPOs?
One of the obvious differences between so-called web 2.0 and web 1.0 is that we have yet to see the avalanche of IPOs that became the hallmark of the bubble that was web 1.0, writes Matt Marks.
