Tech unicorn moves in on Australia
Cara Waters 4:41 PM From the ashes of a failed video game start-up to the world's fastest-growing business application ever, why Slack is targeting Australia.
Knog hits $1 million on Kickstarter
Cara Waters Knog raised a few eyebrows when it turned to crowdfunding to raise $20,000 for the Oi bell but smashed its target to hit $1 million on Wednesday.
Apple Watch hasn't killed the watchmakers
Backing the double-dissolution election
Reinventure backs Flare HR to disrupt default super
Welcome to the cash-free cafe
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Hard work is never enough
James Adonis 12:00 AM The number of successful people who think "I worked hard and made it" implies "you will make it if you just work hard enough" is astounding.
Koko Black looks to Asian expansion
Catie Low Easter will see reincarnated chain Koko Black shift 10 tonnes of chocolate.
The big price freeze
Caroline James Is your business's price list stuck in a time warp?
Crowdfunding by day, cleaning by night
Abha Bhattarai Finding the money to get a creative business started can be a hard slog.
Customise your life
Cara Waters Technology is enabling businesses to offer consumers customised products on a mass scale.
The risk of not having an effects test
Peter Strong An open letter to the Prime Minister and the Treasurer from Peter Strong, chief executive of the Council of Small Business of Australia.
Small Talk
Queues out the door
It's a problem many business owners would love to have, but at Lune Croissanterie in Fitzroy and Jack's Burgers in Newtown the wait time is both a lure and a deterrent.
Small business horror stories
Nina Hendy Meet the small business owners who didn't let the worst day of their business lives spell the end.
'I pay more tax than Uber'
Cara Waters Small businesses are getting slugged while large multinationals pay minimal tax.
The 20-year wait for an invoice to be paid
Cara Waters Small businesses are facing big delays chasing payments with 24 per cent waiting more than six months for invoices to be paid.
Conversation
Has workplace flexibility gone too far?
Tony Featherstone Companies should question whether entitlements are out of sync with a challenged white-collar employment market – and rorted by staff.
Ombudsman open for business
Kate Carnell Australia's first Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman has some questions for small businesses.
How to make a world-class game
Alexandra Cain This homegrown entrepreneur has found the secret to app store success.
The capital gains tax cost of companies
Max Newnham Changes are needed to the small-business exemptions on capital gains tax.
