Entrepreneur Watch

Entrepreneur Watch

SmartCompany editor James Thomson brings you the latest news, trends and gossip from the world of entrepreneurs. As well as looking at the business news of the day, James will look at who is making money, who is losing money and where the next wealthy entreprenuers are coming from.

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Going up

16 March 2010

The good part of interest rates going up – I know, it's hard to see the good part when your loan repayments have just risen – is that in this case at least it indicates that the economy is truly in recovery mode.

So lucky

15 March 2010

It's rare to get a glimpse inside the world of a celebrity's actual business empire, which is what makes a story from British newspaper Mail on Sunday about the financial world of Kylie Minogue so interesting.

Myer’s bad timing

12 March 2010

Myer chief executive Bernie Brookes has done a brilliant job in turning around a department store chain that was almost run into the ground by Coles Myer Group.

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As if it never happened

11 March 2010

That GFC thing? Forget about it. It was just a bad dream, an aberration. We're back on track now and the wealth bubble has reinflated very nicely.

Investor appetite returning

10 March 2010

Good news for funding starved private companies today from Wholesale Investor, which has conducted a survey of its database of more than 5000 investors to get some insight into their appetite for deals.

Abbott’s mistake

9 March 2010

Tony Abbott says he's had a change of heart on paid maternity leave and now believes it is a good idea.

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Time for action

8 March 2010

As usual, International Women's Day has seen the release of a flurry of surveys on everything from career prospects to money management.

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The ideas book

5 March 2010

There is a great profile on US entrepreneur website Inc.com of a guy called Josh James, who is the founder of web analytics and online marketing company Omniture.

Cotton On founder & the footy star

3 March 2010

The founder of Cotton On, Nigel Austin, is notoriously media shy, so it was a bit of a shock to see his name plastered all over the back page of Melbourne's Herald-Sun newspaper this morning.

Importing entrepreneurs

2 March 2010

Things might be pretty rotten in the United States now, but at least they are still working hard to come up with innovative ways to get themselves out of the mire.