The accidental entrepreneur: How Yume founder Katy Barfield came to take on waste in the commercial food industry
Yume founder Katy Barfield never saw herself as an entrepreneur, but now she's heading up a startup disrupting the commercial food industry.
“It’s not cheap”: How each Shark Tank investor does their due diligence, and why deals sometimes fall through
Behind the lights and glamour of Shark Tank, there's the harsh reality of business. Four sharks explain how they handle the due diligence that follows.
Why Samantha Wills is “going out on a high” and closing down her $10 million jewellery brand
For Samantha Wills, the decision to close her eponymous jewellery brand was in part inspired by the “Seinfeld model” of "go[ing] out on a high".
Lessons on failure from Shark Tank investors: How to take control of your business when things aren’t quite going right
Some of the sharks from Shark Tank about failure, the times they’ve seen things go wrong in business, and how they kept moving forward.
Go People founder Wayne Wang on raising millions, being adaptive and getting a helping hand from Amazon
Courier startup Go People has survived by adaptation, reacting to an ever-shifting retail landscape and changing customer demand, says co-founder Wayne Wang
What resilience tells us about entrepreneurs
You can have the best idea, team and revenue source in the world, but it's almost guaranteed to be a bumpy ride. That is where resilience comes in.
Ahead of the times: How Adam and Deborah Drexler built Matt Blatt into a $43 million furniture and homewares empire
Adam and Deborah Drexler have built Matt Blatt into a $43 million furniture and homewares empire. Here's how they did it.
From a garage hobby to full-scale brewery: How Adelaide’s Little Bang Brewing harnessed ‘incremental growth’
After five years of incremental growth, Little Bang Brewing's will double production and extend further into Australia's growing craft beer network.
Does the Australian startup ecosystem have a problem with armchair ‘experts’?
Is Australia’s startup scene being overrun by armchair experts who are not themselves running startups? We ask Kate Kendall and Peta Ellis to weigh in.
Meet Edwina Sharrock, the midwife and entrepreneur who scored a $200,000 deal with Janine Allis
Edwina Sharrock is a registered midwife and mum of two from Tamworth in New South Wales who is building Birth Beat, an empire helping women give birth.
Shark Tank finale: Student banking app QPay scores $380,000 investment from two unlikely sharks
The founders of soon-to-be-challenger bank QPay have secured one of the largest deals in this season of Shark Tank.
“We’re better than all of them”: How Melbourne headphones startup nura is planning to be as big as Bose
Above a busy street in Melbourne’s north is the headquarters of nura, a startup that, if all goes to plan, will be as big as Bose in just a few years.