Startups

You’ve got 30 seconds to impress: Here’s how to nail your elevator pitch

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Strategy

Startup Advice

In this extract, Daniel Fah and Tony McAuslan run through the secrets of a great elevator pitch — where you've only got 30 seconds to convince someone that your idea is, in fact, not shit.

Blackbird and Square Peg investors in digital business card startup Blinq’s $5 million raise

Startup News

Kye White

20 May 2022

Blinq lets users share digital business cards quickly and easily with others, using the app and an NFC card, short link, email signature, video call background, or QR Code.

Aussie businesses start rolling out government’s new PayTo platform ahead of July 1 launch

Finance

Sophie Venz

19 May 2022

As part of a new partnership with GoCardless, Cape will be one of the first businesses in Australia to use the government’s new PayTo payments initiative.

Benjemen Elengovan of MyGigsters named Entrepreneur of the Year

Entrepreneurs

Sophie Venz

18 May 2022

Smallbiz Week has kicked off in Melbourne last night with the Young Hero Awards dinner, celebrating business leaders under 35 years old.

Behind Adore Beauty’s loyalty program helping drive $113.1 million revenue in just six months

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Strategy

Sales & Marketing

Adore Beauty's loyalty program has grown the brand’s subscriber base by 200% over the past 12 months alone, and contributed to 18% revenue growth in the past six months.

The Gold Coast twins using laundry sheets to tackle plastic pollution

Entrepreneurs

News Leads

17 May 2022

The horror of finding a mountain of plastic, rubbish and debris at Everest Base Camp motivated young Gold Coast entrepreneurs to return home and tackle world pollution with a clean sheet.

How Sprout Organic took its non-dairy baby formula from the Gold Coast to the international market

Startup News

News Leads

16 May 2022

It was with the aim to disrupt the infant formula industry that Gold Coast company Sprout Organic launched the world’s first organic plant-based infant formula 12 months ago.

How this Aussie startup is helping businesses understand the financial impact of climate change

Profiles

Kurtis Eichler

13 May 2022

XDI, an adaptive climate startup headquartered at Lot Fourteen in Adelaide, helps global businesses assess the impacts of climate change to their investments.

What I learned on the journey from the NRL front row to launching my own startup

Opinion

Kirk Reynoldson

13 May 2022

Having played a career in the NRL and now launched life admin startup Eggy with his wife, Kirk Reynoldson says the blood, sweat and tears on the pitch are the same as those in the boardroom. 

Uber has a new Women Rider Preference. Here’s how it works

Startup News

Madeline Hislop

12 May 2022

Uber has launched a new feature in Australia offering women and non-binary drivers the option to accept trip requests from women passengers only, if they choose.