Partner Content

Salesforce and SmartCompany are combining forces to help small businesses understand how to implement artificial intelligence (AI) across their operations safely and ethically. 

In order to succeed in such a competitive and saturated market as online retail, retailers need to find a way to stand out from the competitors.

For over 15 years, The Smart50 Awards have been recognising and celebrating the fastest-growing small businesses in Australia. These awards have put a national spotlight on iconic organisations like July, Vinomofo, and Mr. Yum—and now it could be your turn to shine.

Interested in learning how to apply AI to your business, register to our in-person event in partnership with Salesforce: Practical AI for small business – Understanding practical application, safety and ethics in the real world.

Every startup experiences growing pains, but it’s all part of the journey. At the Melbourne session of Scale Up: Growing your startup beyond a seed, founders came to learn how early stage startups (what AWS Startup Advisor Nikita Le Messurier called a ‘sticky-taped monolith’) can transform into world-beating businesses. Here are the headlines:

Armed with a growing business and a great opportunity, a business owner’s next challenge is to find capital. For many, while debt funding is an excellent option, there are circumstances when it isn’t the right answer — for them or for their banks.

Rapid digitisation has helped businesses significantly lift their customer service game. Now, the adoption of generative AI is raising the bar even further.

I've created new businesses with $100,000 in advertising contracts before we have even launched - because of the relationships I have built. I attribute this to my Luck Surface Area. Coined by tech entrepreneur Jason Roberts, your Luck Surface Area is the result of doing something you're passionate about combined with the total number of people you talk to about it.  

Every unicorn has two necessary ingredients: a narrative of inevitability and the right culture. This was just one of many great lessons from the latest SmartCompany x AWS event.

On August 10 in Sydney, six Australian early-stage startups pitched their hearts out to win SmartCompany’s third instalment of the Pitch.

SMEs wishing to gain valuable insights from Australian business leaders still have a chance to enter to get a seat at the table at Flight Centre Business Travel’s Money Can’t Buy Workshop. 

With many businesses now operating on hybrid and dispersed work models, enterprise network architecture has irrevocably changed.