Events

Who Gives A Crap and Young Change Agents launch ‘Impact Boss’ to give 20,000 teens a shot at being social entrepreneurs 

- October 14, 2025 2 MIN READ

Veteran impact scaleup Who Gives A Crap has teamed up with education nonprofit Young Change Agents to launch a program that equips teenagers with the skills to become social entrepreneurs. Impact Boss will launch in Australia and the US in 2026 and hopes to reach 20,000 teens in its first two years. The program aims… Read more »

Drone, farm, agriculture, agtech
Ag tech

Applications for evokeAG’s 2026 Groundbreakers program close this weekend

- July 31, 2025 2 MIN READ

Applications for the 2026 Groundbreakers program, run by the annual evokeAG agritech gathering, close this Sunday, August 3. The program is a launchpad for emerging talent from Australia and New Zealand for young agrifood leaders and innovators. It’s looking for people committed to delivering positive impact across the agrifood sector, from producing to processing and… Read more »

Business

Why this futurist believes entrepreneurs need think to 2040 to succeed when launching a startup

- January 10, 2025 5 MIN READ

With a new year, ripe with possibilities, underway, Swinburne entrepreneurship expert Bridgette Engeler is urging small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs to think beyond 2025 to set themselves up for future success. “Everyone is probably thinking about the coming 12 months,” she says. “But what’s on the radar beyond that? Is your business future-fit? You should… Read more »

Laetitia Andrac CEO & Co-founder Understanding Zoe
Opinion

Neurodivergent = genius: 3 myths about neurodivergent strength in entrepreneurship

- November 28, 2024 5 MIN READ

It seems like almost every week, another woman entrepreneur publicly shares her story about being under the neurodivergent umbrella. Inspiring leaders like Celeste Barber, Steph Claire Smith (KIC), Mamamia’s CEO Mia Freedman, and The Digital Picnic founder Cherie Conan are proof that neurodivergence is not an obstacle to achieving success, when working in an inclusive… Read more »

Business strategy

Why universities need to focus on an entrepreneurial mindset, not just new ideas

- September 24, 2024 3 MIN READ

As universities consider their future in the 21st century, many are embracing the concept of “innovation” in their strategic plans. According to Harvard Business School, innovation is “a product, service, business model or strategy that’s both novel and useful”. By focusing on innovation, universities are attempting to position themselves as drivers of progress – as… Read more »

Accelerator

Victoria doctors get a taste of startup life with LaunchVic-backed medtech accelerator

- July 14, 2024 2 MIN READ

The Australian Society for Medical Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ASME) is among seven organisations backed by LaunchVic as part of a $2.4 million program to create pre-accelerator programs to help aspiring founders understand startup life. ASME has partnered with MTPConnect to deliver the Australian Clinical Entrepreneur Program (AUSCEP) in Victoria. It offers clinicians the resources, mentorship… Read more »

Parent, baby
Leadership

New research reveals how major life moments impact an entrepreneur’s success – and some of it is counterintuitive

- May 24, 2024 3 MIN READ

Entrepreneurs are the lifeblood of any innovative economy. New business creation has been shown to have a significant and positive impact on economic growth, innovation and job creation. But it isn’t easy, and most new businesses fail. When someone starts a business, they usually aren’t doing it alone – their whole family forms part of… Read more »

Steve Jobs
Leadership

A Kiwi academic is trying to figure out what it means to have an ‘entrepreneurial mindset’

- June 19, 2023 2 MIN READ

The skills needed to thrive in an uncertain future are often thought to fall under the term “entrepreneurial mindset” but New Zealand researcher Darsel Keane has found that there’s little clarity about what an entrepreneurial mindset actually is. While the phrase is cited with increasing popularity in recent years, Keane, director of the Centre for… Read more »

Other tech

17 seriously cool (and free!) tech talks from the City of Sydney’s visiting entrepreneur program

- June 15, 2022 5 MIN READ

Leading global thinkers and local innovators will put their heads together to debate what the future might look like for cities, technology and innovation from next week as part of the City of Sydney’s annual visiting entrepreneur program. The 10-day program, titled A Future TBD, kicks off on June 22, and features 11 future technology… Read more »

Other tech

UTS puts entrepreneurs on show with new CBD shopfront

- December 16, 2021 2 MIN READ

UTS Director of Entrepreneurship Murray Hurps is shining more light on startup founders with the university’s startups program moving into new street front digs on one of the city’s busiest streets. UTS Startups Central is just a block from the new Tech Central at Sydney’s central train station. The glass shopfront was previously the Co-op… Read more »

Karen Cohen
People

YBF now has a blockchain expert in da house

- August 31, 2021 2 MIN READ

YBF Melbourne has appointed a blockchain expert-in-residence to help startups better understand the potential of distributed ledger technology. Karen Cohen, deputy chair of the Blockchain Australia Board, has taken on the role, and when the city’s latest lockdown hopefully lifts soon, she’ll be based at the Melbourne CBD co-working facility, where she will offer advice, introductions,… Read more »