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17-year-old entrepreneur making $10,000 weekly profit with weight loss tea
Barely out of high school, 17-year-old entrepreneur, Taylor Dow, is already delivering a weekly profit of $10,000 with his tea company – BodyTea Australia.
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Skip the queue: Rewardle introduces mobile ordering functionality minus the banking fees
Melbourne-based startup Rewardle is staying ahead of the game, now offering time-poor coffee consumers the ability to order ahead through mere taps on their smartphones.
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Top 50 Australian Female Entrepreneurs Under 40
This is our first ever ranked list for 2014. Unlike our Top Coders & Tech People or Startup of the Year lists, the Top 50 Female Entrepreneurs Under 40 has been selected by our team here at Shoe String.
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Startup Lodie brings the pop up retail experience into the smartphone age
Melbourne-based entrepreneurs Gabrielle Kelly and Simon Doukas have developed a mobile application Lodie for emerging designers to showcase and sell their products in a virtual pop-up shop format. The app is currently in its beta phase, and set to launch officially in the upcoming months. Lodie has a membership-based model, which requires customers to download… Read more »
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Startup Pricify helping consumers track product prices seamlessly
Pricify is an new innovative tool that allows consumers to track prices of products they want from any online retailer around the world under one roof.
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Ecommerce entrepreneurs killing it in Australia
The ecommerce market in Australia is extremely competitive at the moment. Here are 10 companies killing it online right now.
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The San Francisco Survival Guide for Aussie Entrepreneurs
When Tasnuva asked me to share a few tips on how to have a good time San Francisco… I couldn’t resist. I’ll take you through a few useful tips to get the most out of your first visit to San Francisco.
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Startup Alphatise empowering consumers to drive retail prices
Co-founded by Australian entrepreneurs Paul Pearson and Richard Frey, Alphatise is set to bring the power back into the hands of consumers when it comes to product pricing. Launching in May this year, Alphatise creates a unique marketplace in which consumer drive deals on items they want and suppliers sell items based on market demand.
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Announcement: Shoe String Media partners with Pinstripe Media
It is with great pleasure and excitement that I formally announce that Shoe String Media has gone into partnership with Pinstripe Media, the company behind brands such as Kochie’s Business Builders on Yahoo!7 and various content on other international networks.
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The Black Socks business model: Why it’s brilliant
A pair of unmatching black socks is seemingly insignificant. But it was the beginning of an impeccable business model for Samy Liechti.
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Design your own porno: Programmer introduces the 3D virtual reality porn star
You know what they say: if you can think of it, there are probably 100 pornos based on it. I mean, who knew there would be a porno about stealing lemons?
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Brisbane tech company launches cloud-based desktop service
Brisbane-based tech company, divestIT, yesterday announced the launch of their new secure cloud-based desktop service. cloudDesktop allows small to medium size businesses to log in to their company desktop from any device or computer using any internet provider. This solution was previously the domain of large scale enterprises. divestIT’s cloudDesktop allows businesses to operate from… Read more »
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10 of the BEST Australian startup blogs you should be reading
Nothing quite beats a great piece of written or video content. There is a lot of information to sift through out there on the internet; and when it it comes to blogging in the startup space, you could literally go through every company we have covered on this site and find a blog section for their company on their websites.
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Our 10 Startups to watch in 2014
This year was a great year for laying the foundations. Many entrepreneurs started out on the road to something exciting, disruptive and in many cases life-changing for their users, and game changing for their industry. In 2014 these newbie startups will begin to grow and scale and we think that you will start seeing some big things from all of them!
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An insight into the creative mind of technology entrepreneur Ron Creevey
For over two decades, Australian technology entrepreneur Ron Creevey has been sprinting from business to business with one destination in mind – innovation, which is transient by its very nature.
