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10 lessons for high-performing startups
US-based startup mentor, entrepreneur and investor Oji Udezue builds products that enhance the way we live and work. He shared the 10 must-haves for high-performing startups.
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How Prospa approaches company culture
What makes Prospa’s culture unique is that we’re driven by challenging the way the finance system works: over 200 passionate people come together daily to find better ways of keeping small businesses moving.
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We blew $100k, our tech was a disaster, and we had to start again
Two months further on we still didn’t have any product to speak of – let alone demonstrate to potential customers. Alarm bells started ringing.
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How to build a strong company culture from day one
I have finally realised that your company culture is absolutely core to the success of your business, and it starts from day one.
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Five tips for doing business in New Zealand
While our flags look pretty much identical, and our accents sound equally bizarre to the rest of the world, New Zealand business culture differs from Australia in some pretty important ways.
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The three keys to build a thriving business
At the core of our advice to the ambitious business owners that are seeking growth are our three golden pillars namely profit, purpose and people.
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Five steps to scaling your sales team
Grabbing whomever you can for the sake of increasing your sales headcount can lead to disaster, if they’re not the right people.
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How a “healthy paranoia” about the competition keeps Carsales innovating
Carsales CIO Jason Blackman said the Melbourne company has sought to maintain the startup ethos it set out with upon launch in 1997.
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Female founders, go for it! Everyone else, quit the patronising
I recently attended an event encouraging women to get involved in the startup ecosystem at the new Sydney Startup Hub. While I applaud the aim of the event, I left with my blood boiling.
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Sydney startup SnackProud designs nutritious snack boxes to keep workplaces healthy
SnackProud looks to help companies do their part to ensure their employees are snacking healthily by providing snack boxes packed full of snacks that deliver the energy hit without the nutritional hit.
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How these Australian scaleups are investing in company culture
Looking to take its company culture to the next level as it scales up is Airtasker, which recently appointed Mahesh Muralidhar as its new Head of People Operations.
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Feminism and Islam: The problems with applying Western feminist values to Non-Western cultures
Many of us feminists who’ve been brought up in Western countries have been guilty at one time or another for finding the practices of other cultures despicable because of the perceived harm they cause to women – typical examples include female genital mutilation, forced marriage, honour killing, and the hijab (Islamic headscarf).
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Australia vs. Silicon Valley: Replicating a culture of innovation
Every region dreams of becoming an innovation hub like Silicon Valley – the foundation for tomorrow’s startups. But none have been able to successfully recreate the ‘magic’ that inhabits the region.
