Entrepreneur Skills
The importance of entrepreneur skills is often overlooked, but we've studied this area for over 20+ years. In this collection of expert guides and coaching programs we dive into the traits of an entrepreneur, advice from famous entrepreneurs, critical business management skills and more, so you can become a successful entrepreneur.
Five fictional entrepreneurs we could all learn from
Sir Richard Branson. Steve Jobs. Warren Buffett. Arianna Huffington. They're all wildly successful entrepreneurs, and they're also very much real people to draw inspiration from as you navigate your own business path.
Catie McHugh
Things are about to get Wilde in Sydney.
Expert growth hacker, Heather Wilde, is coming to Sydney to present Growth Hacking 101 on August 16.Make sure you mark StartCon in your calendar this December!Australia’s ultimate startup and growth conference, StartCon, is putting on some epic events in the lead-up to their big show in December.
Catie McHugh
Are you chasing entrepreneurship for the right reasons?
Picture this entrepreneurial oasis: You wake up at 10am, put on your slippers and walk downstairs to the comfort of your own living room, (which happens to double as your office.)
Anna Hume
Got a great startup idea? Enter the Battlefield.
TechCrunch Startup Battlefield is coming to Australia for the first time.Early stage startups can do battle for exposure, funding and gloryTechnology media giant, TechCrunch (in partnership with ELEVACAO) is bringing their brilliant business combat zone, TechCrunch Startup Battlefield to Australian shores.
Catie McHugh
One thing no one tells entrepreneurs on their first day of business
When you’re learning to drive, your driving instructor will teach you about your blind spot—what one is and how to check for it. You find out on your very first driving lesson that, even when you’re looking for it in the mirror, your blind spot is invisible unless you turn to actively check for it.
Vivienne Egan
4 tech triumphs on the way for business in 2018
With the way technology progresses and reinvents the world as we know it, at breakneck speed, it’s both exciting and intimidating to imagine what even the near future will hold for us.
Catie McHugh
Why being ungrateful is costing you success
What do Oprah Winfrey, Sir Richard Branson, Arnold Schwarzenegger and a host of rich, famous celebrities have in common?
Catie McHugh
Startup life: Myths busted
When you hear the word “startup", what images are conjured in your mind? Do you think of a bunch of genius nerds in t-shirts noodling away on the next breakthrough app?
Catie McHugh
3 industries millennials have (allegedly) ruined
Millennials are the generation everyone loves to talk about. It would appear everyone has an opinion on who they are, what they represent and where it has all gone wrong for them (we humans are a funny bunch - the fact is, generations bring change and this negative perception of the newbie generation is nothing new).
Catie McHugh
So you've had your first business failure. What now?
We talk a lot about starting a business: how to do it, knowing your blind spots, how to pick a co-founder. But, what about learning how to deal with business failure?
Jo Foster
4 ways to tell if you should be an entrepreneur or a business builder
You might think that people who start and run businesses are similar people with similar things driving them. That perhaps the difference between a startup founder who achieves venture success and someone who works on their business solidly over many years is difficult to pin down.
Vivienne Egan