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The Venture
Why empathy in redundancy is smart business
Firms can harness the goodwill and talent of ex-employees in their networks.
- by Tony Featherstone
Latest
Start-ups
Cyber bullying to self-harm: AI is predicting at-risk students
Fighting bullying and risky behaviour in schools is increasingly a real-time tech problem.
- by Emma Koehn
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Start-ups
'I had a 10-year vision', but Atlassian moved in quickly on Tim's start-up
Tim Clipsham sold his start-up to Atlassian last month after he got a phone call out of the blue.
- by Cara Waters
Opinion
Start-ups
Working nights and weekends to bring your idea to reality
Few people can quit their day job and start full-time in a new venture tomorrow. Even fewer people should.
- by Ned Dwyer
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Wage scandal
Unpaid staff and bounced cheques as Mordialloc pub padlocks the doors
The locks to the doors were changed and the lease terminated. Now the workers, suppliers and customers want answers.
- by Charlotte Grieve
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Start-ups
Chipping in: Morse Micro raises $24m as it taps next Wi-Fi revolution
Andrew and Michael spent time sleeping in bunk beds in a dodgy neighbourhood as they travelled the world raising millions from some big names.
- by Cara Waters
Unfair dismissal
One-in-a-100 success rate sparks call to reform small business sacking
Less than 1 per cent of unfair dismissal applications brought before the Fair Work Commission in the first three months of the year were successful.
- by Cara Waters
Managing
In her own words: Christine Holgate's tale of the G20 photo that changed Blackmores' fortunes
Former Blackmores chief executive Christine Holgate told an Australia Post expo last week about the lengths she went to in order to get a photo with Chinese president Xi Jinping.
- by Cara Waters
Managing
The remarkable photo with Xi Jinping that helped Blackmores crack China
When she was told that getting a photo with the Chinese president Xi Jinping would help boost sales, then-Blackmores chief executive Christine Holgate got creative.
- by Cara Waters
Start-ups
Startups jostle for space in coffee pod wars
Australians are now across the war on waste - and caffeine-minded entrepreneurs are cashing in.
- by Emma Koehn
Franchising
The man behind Jim's Mowing has some advice - 'do a bit of homework'
David 'Jim' Penman has savaged the state of the franchising sector in the wake of a scathing parliamentary inquiry that recommended huge changes.
- by Hamish Hastie