Mike Cannon-Brookes
News and interviews on Mike Cannon-Brookes including trends, features, blogs and community conversations from an Australian business perspective.
Smart entrepreneurs dominate the new rich
This year’s BRW Young Rich list is dominated by smart young people who have started solid businesses mainly in technology, property, retail and financial services.
Atlassian Software Systems
Atlassian Winner: SmartCompany 2007 Award for Millionaire Entrepreneur
Atlassian
Atlassian aims to be Australia's great successful software story. And it's on its way, achieving 74.5% growth rate with revenue increasing to $35.5 million from $22.5 million in 2006-07.
Australia’s top web 2.0 entrepreneurs
The search for Australia’s best and brightest web 2.0 entrepreneurs reveals a tangled web of companies, individuals and technologies reports BRAD HOWARTH, tied together through an equally complex web of professional relationships and friendships.
SmartCompany awards 2008: The billion dollar list
Australia’s top small and medium businesses have shrugged off the downturn to reveal spectacular growth rates at this year’s SmartCompany.com.au awards held on Friday night in Melbourne, hosted by NAB.
30 hot entrepreneurs aged 30 and under
They are young, smart and come from industries as diverse as IT, fashion and agriculture. BRAD HOWARTH profiles 30 hot young entrepreneurs aged 30 years and under.
10 Aussie digital entrepreneurs with stars and stripes in their eyes
Home-grown digital entrepreneurs are storming the world’s most difficult IT market, the US. BRAD HOWARTH runs through 10 stand-outs.
Meet the Smartclass ‘07
Welcome to the inaugural SmartCompany50. This special bunch of companies are fast growing and innovative. They are web-savvy, Gen-Ys and baby boomers, they don't need your money, and they are setting trends for the future.
Software – hardwired!
Scott Farquhar tells how, with partner Mike Cannon-Brookes, he built the enterprise software house Atlassian to a global operation turning over $22 million. By JACQUI WALKER.
Our top 10 digital entrepreneurs
The hardest part about compiling a list of Australia’s digital entrepreneurs was to narrow it to just 10. By BRAD HOWARTH.






