How can employers and employees help prevent burnout at work?
Is shifting blame responsible for our never-ending burnout? M.K. Ward, director of people, culture and OD at startup Zipline.io unpacks what keeps driving us to exhaustion.
Cutting through the crap: Jason Soultan didn’t like the Aussie conferences on offer, so he built one he would want to attend
Running a business is hard. But Jason Soultan felt people just weren’t talking about it enough — and set out to turn that around with a new event, NO/BS.
“It’s just hell everyday”: Running a startup means learning to love the heat, says Adir Shiffman
Startup life is hard, and if you think it’s going to get better, you’ve got another think coming, according to serial entrepreneur Adir Shiffman.
Inside the BugHerd saga: How this startup came back from the brink
Once a fast-growing startup and magnet for investment dollars, BugHerd later found itself at rock bottom, but refused to die.
VCs are human too: Goterra founder Olympia Yarger on the emotional road to securing seed funding
One founder and one of her investors open up about the seed-round experience, offering a glimpse into one of the roughest times in the startup journey.
Why gamified marketing startup QuizJam threw out 80% of its tech, before emerging from the ashes with an $810,000 raise
The first few years as a founder are never easy, but QuizJam founder Joel Steel had more than his fair share of twists and turns.
Aussie startup Assigner raises $8.7 million after successful US expansion, helped along by one trick for managing a distributed workforce
Cloud-based SaaS platform Assignar has raised $US6.2 million from Aussie and US investors, after successfully taking its product to the States.
Victorian startups need more founders to “take the plunge” as local startups struggle for angel investment
Victoria’s startup ecosystem is growing. But, while diversity stats are moving in the right direction, early-stage startups aren't catching many breaks.
“Just not very sexy”: Travel startup Rome2rio founder Bernie Tschirren explains how it’s SEO not social media that has fuelled gradual — but steady — growth
Rome2rio co-founder Bernie Tschirren puts the travel startup's steady growth down to sustainability and SEO, but says it's not sexy enough for social media.
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
“It’s amazing we survived”: Collabosaurus founder Jessica Ruhfus on bootstrapping, scaling and sleeping on the floor
Collabosaurus founder Jessica Ruhfus has gone from marketing pro to startup founder on the cusp of international growth, but it wasn't exactly plain sailing
Traditional skills, experienced people and product pros are key to startup growth: StartupAus
Startups need to hire experienced developers and product experts, and invest in traditional roles if they want to scale, but it’s easier said than done.
