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Five things every CEO should focus on daily
9:49PM | Wednesday, 10 September 2014 | Alex Parsons
The role of company chief executive brings with it all sorts of challenges, from dealing with the nitty gritty of making decisions daily to formulating strategies to take your company forward.
LeadershipEnvato becomes the first Australian startup to release its diversity figures, encourages others to do the same
9:33PM | Thursday, 4 September 2014 | Kye White
Envato has become the first Australian tech startup to release comprehensive workforce diversity figures.
| Technology | Websites | Leadership | Management | Managing peopleStop underselling your biggest point of difference
9:04PM | Wednesday, 3 September 2014 | Amanda Jesnoewski
If you are like most business owners, your biggest point of difference comes not from what you do or even how you do it, it comes from what you know.
| LeadershipFormer Netflix chief talent officer joins Bigcommerce as adviser
8:56PM | Tuesday, 26 August 2014 | StartupSmart
In a bid to solidify company culture, Bigcommerce has announced that Patty McCord, former chief talent officer at Netflix, has joined the company’s board of advisers.
| Leadership | Managing peopleAirbnb appoints country manager for Australia and New Zealand
8:04PM | Monday, 25 August 2014 | StartupSmart
Airbnb has announced the appointment of Sam McDonagh as country manager for Australia and New Zealand, in a move to boost local awareness of the accommodation company.
| LeadershipWhy startups are going to change the world
8:03PM | Friday, 22 August 2014 | StartupSmartWith their culture of focus, innovation and cooperation, the next generation of startups is going to change the world in ways that might be hard to imagine.
| LeadershipCrowdsourcing competitions often hijacked
8:00PM | Thursday, 21 August 2014 | Charis Palmer
Crowdsourcing competitions, popular with companies seeking to tap into groups of knowledge, are often diminished by malicious behaviour, according to a new study.
| Leadership | Management | Managing peopleUpcoming event encourages the next generation of female tech leaders
8:19PM | Friday, 8 August 2014 | Andrew Sadauskas
Go Girl Go for IT, a free upcoming event for high school girls from years 8 to 11 organised by the Victorian ICT for Women Network, aims to encourage girls to consider a career in the tech industry.
| Planning | Business planning | Leadership | Business advice and educationStartup leaders respond with caution to possible ESOP changes
8:39PM | Friday, 1 August 2014 | Bronwen Clune
Australian startup industry leaders react to the federal government’s indication that it will move to relax tax arrangements around employee share programs.
| LeadershipNovelty app Yo! accuses Aussie nanosocial API of copyright infringement
8:03PM | Friday, 1 August 2014 | Andrew Sadauskas
Novelty nanosocial app Yo! has allegedly accused Australian-based push notification API Oi! of copyright infringement.
| Legal matters | TechnologyFormer newspaper exec Jack Matthews claims his tech startup Rewardle
7:39PM | Friday, 25 July 2014 | Andrew Sadauskas
Jack Matthews, the former head of Fairfax’s digital and metropolitan news divisions, has been named as the new chairman of loyalty card app Rewardle.
| Growth | Buy a business | Leadership | Management | Managing peopleTin Alley beta winter internships set to begin for 2014
7:40PM | Friday, 25 July 2014 | Andrew Sadauskas
The Tin Alley beta program has finished the selection process for its winter internship program, with benefits anticipated both for students and the startups they’ll work for.
| Planning | Business planning | Growth | Managing people | How to hire staffCan you trademark a store design? Apple wins the right in Europe
7:39PM | Monday, 14 July 2014 | Cara Waters
Apple has won the right to trademark its flagship store design in Europe in a landmark ruling.
| Growth | Legal mattersTo backup or not to backup – there really is no question
6:21PM | Thursday, 26 June 2014 | Vanessa Emilio
You’re not backing up your website, emails or documents? Fail.
| Legal matters | Technology | Mentor | Amanda JesnoewskiThe man who couldn’t cook
6:45PM | Friday, 13 June 2014 | Taskmaster
“I don’t know how to cook,” admitted the man sitting on a stool at the front bar of The Commercial Hotel in Parts Unknown.
| Planning | LeadershipGoogle’s not the only tech company with a diversity problem: LinkedIn says “we have some work to do”
6:02PM | Friday, 13 June 2014 | Eloise Keating
Social networking platform LinkedIn is the latest technology company to disclose statistics about the diversity of its workplace, and admit it has work to do.
| LeadershipBest of the Web: Office introverts, Cantor’s Silicon Valley friends, and #weirdtwitter
6:51AM | Friday, 13 June 2014 | Eloise Keating
An office for introverts: When workplaces started adopting open plan offices in the 1960s, it was hoped scrapping employee cubicles would foster collaboration and make teams more efficient. But as Olga Khazan writes in The Atlantic, sharing your work space with others can be traumatic, especially for the introverts among us.
| Planning | How to hire staffEverything you need to know about building a startup in China
6:26PM | Monday, 2 June 2014 | Andrew Sadauskas
China’s booming mobile market is creating lucrative new business opportunities for startups, according to Australian entrepreneur and Koombah cofounder Jason Lim, who recently returned from China.
| Planning | Business planning | Growth | Innovation | ManagementKids these days: Why Gen Y workers are really leaving your business
5:10PM | Friday, 23 May 2014 | Taskmaster
Recently, some business owners have begun fretting over why their Gen Y employees are leaving their business. Here’s the real reason why the Y’s are going.
| LeadershipWhy do partnerships bust up?
5:00AM | Tuesday, 13 May 2014 | Matt Murphy
Much like romantic relationships, happy business partnerships can end in a nasty legal divorce. Here are five common reasons why business partnerships end and what you can do to prevent it from happening.
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