The Big Idea
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- Entrepreneur
Tights turned a $20k investment into a $2 million business
Having to wear men's shorts to exercise in when pregnant prompted Nadia Tucker and Stevie Angel to start Active Truth.
- Alexandra Cain
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- Analysis
- Analysis
Not so comfy anymore … disrupting the sofa game
Industry veteran Steve Layton had a serious light-bulb moment that lead him to start Sofa Brands.
- Alexandra Cain
- Analysis
- Analysis
What's an algorithm factory?
Berend Berendsen founded Widget Brain after studying artificial intelligence.
- Alexandra Cain
- Analysis
- Entrepreneur
Meet the cold call queen who built a $15 million business
Pamela Jabbour credits her success to her ability to hit the phones and hit them hard.
- Alexandra Cain
- Analysis
- Analysis
Ruined by the GFC, this business earned $12 million last year
Dominique and Kevin Grubisa’s property investment business was flattened by the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 but now it's thriving.
- Alexandra Cain
- Analysis
- Analysis
Hack warning: Secure your data or risk a $31 million fine
How you store your customers personal data is a very important question for small business.
- Alexandra Cain
'We had virtually nothing': the danger with using overseas app developers
As the saying goes, buy cheap pay twice, which is especially the case with the often-unscrupulous international web of app developers.
- Alexandra Cain
- Analysis
- Tax deductions
$20,000 tax break? We don’t care – we’re not using it
A whopping 85 per cent of small business owners have never used the $20,000 instant asset writeoff.
- Alexandra Cain
- Analysis
- Analysis
Oh my aching feet! How to stop long-term damage from standing
The risk for small businesses that deprioritise their employees’ health and wellbeing is the potential for long-term physical damage for staff down the track.
- Alexandra Cain
- Opinion
- Opinion
Can this business sell $50 million in silk sleepwear?
You’ve made it if Kendall Jenner sends her runner to the Beverly Hills Hotel to buy eight sets of your sleepwear.
- Alexandra Cain
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