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How to scale a culture: Create organisational rhythms, remember silence is deadly and consider arguing drunk
3:20AM | Monday, 17 March 2014 | Rose Powell
Growing a business may seem easy but screwing it up is even easier, especially if you don’t keep an eye on your company culture, says scaling expert Huggy Rao.
Planning | Business planningChange default search in Google Chrome
3:31PM | Friday, 14 March 2014 | StartupSmart
The Google search bar in Chrome is one of the most useful tools in the browser, but you can easily change it to a different search engine altogether – or even a website.
| PlanningWhy job descriptions matter
3:15PM | Friday, 14 March 2014 | Taskmaster
Most entrepreneurs love their staff. Don't they?
| Planning | Business ideas | Business planning | How to start a...Weekly digest: This week’s stories in one easy to check place
3:37PM | Friday, 14 March 2014 | Rose Powell
We tackled some big topics this week, from the worst red tape for start-ups to five myths about scaling a business to how Australia can overcome a fear of failure many believe is holding the start-up ecosystem back.
| Planning | Business ideas | Business planning | Growth | How to start a...Music wasn’t better back in the day – and neither was life!
3:41PM | Thursday, 13 March 2014 | Taskmaster
Are you holding off on building your dreams for the future because of a misguided idealism about the past? The Taskmaster says it’s time to take off those nostalgia goggles.
| Planning | Business planning | Growth | Growth StrategyStart-up internship program at Melbourne University to run again as interns get hired
3:01PM | Thursday, 13 March 2014 | Rose Powell
The Tin Alley program has been declared a success with two of the five Melbourne University students involved in the program hired after completing their internships at tech start-ups and councils.
| Planning | Business advice and educationBuy a vowel – and make your name stand out!
3:00AM | Wednesday, 12 March 2014 | Taskmaster
Are you trying to pick a name for your business? Looking for something really unique? Old Taskmaster suggests it’s time to buy a vowel.
| Planning | Business planning | Marketing | Sales and marketing | Advertising | SalesStanford start-up tutors share the top five myths about scaling tech start-ups
3:00AM | Wednesday, 12 March 2014 | Rose Powell
By definition, every start-up plans to get global sooner or later. But scaling a business poorly is one of the fastest ways to kill it, according to two Stanford lecturers.
| Business planning | Business advice and educationTime to use the other 90% of your brain
3:17PM | Monday, 10 March 2014 | Taskmaster
Last time, the Taskmaster revealed the awesome power of the Octagon of Opportunity. Of course, that’s not the only con you need to keep an ear out for.
| PlanningStartup Games launches: Why only 28 of 80 aspiring entrepreneurs made it through the selection process
3:44PM | Monday, 10 March 2014 | Rose Powell
Only 28 applicants to the University of New South Wales’s New South Innovations Startup Games started the program this week, after a rigorous application process.
| Planning | Business planningThinking of setting up a start-up business? Here’s what you need to do first
3:17PM | Friday, 7 March 2014 | Vanessa Emilio
Did you know there's a legal difference between a company and a business? Before you start-up, here are a few things you should consider.
| Planning | Legal matters | Mentor | Vanessa EmilioTech Girl Movement launches to boost the number of women in tech
3:05PM | Tuesday, 4 March 2014 | Rose Powell
An IT academic is calling for a coordinated strategy to boost the number of women in the technology industries, starting with girls in primary school.
| Planning | Business planningWill 2014 be the year of the entrepreneur?
2:18PM | Friday, 28 February 2014 | StartupSmart
Sir Richard Branson has predicted 2014 will be the year of the entrepreneur. In this video, Professor Alan Brown, from Surry University, explores what the year of the entrepreneur could mean.
| PlanningThe importance of having a coach in business and life
2:22PM | Thursday, 27 February 2014 | Jonathan Weinstock
Remember those piano or guitar lessons you loved (or hated) as a kid? Perhaps you were forced to go to tennis lessons? Now you’re in business, it’s time to hire another coach.
| Planning | Business planning | Mentor | Business advice and education | Jonathan WeinstockSmall business index shows the sector is feeling positive about the future
2:53PM | Tuesday, 25 February 2014 | Gavin Lower
Australian small businesses are feeling positive about their current and future performance, according to the first Westpac-Melbourne Institute Small Business Index.
| Planning | Sole traderThe three big challenges that stop start-ups getting going: Noah Kagan
2:21PM | Friday, 21 February 2014 | Rose Powell
Noah Kagan is the founder of AppSumo and a world-renowned growth hacker. After working with hundreds of start-ups, he’s identified the three common issues holding aspiring entrepreneurs back.
| Planning | Business planningREA Group calls for new approaches to job creation in the age of ‘citizen-led’ economic development
2:08PM | Thursday, 20 February 2014 | Rose Powell
Early disrupters of the classifieds industry, the REA Group, is calling for Australia to embrace its digital future and for Australians to pull the government towards technology enabling policies.
| Planning | Growth StrategyPersonal perfection and “lightning gratification” among top future trends for SMEs
2:54PM | Monday, 17 February 2014 | Melinda Oliver
Most trend forecasts for SMEs focus on expectations of business confidence, financial status, use of technology and new online marketing habits, but futurist Ross Dawson has other ideas.
| Planning | Business planning | Sole traderEnable people’s laziness – and profit!
2:56PM | Friday, 14 February 2014 | Taskmaster
Today, like so many other days, your humble correspondent arrived at Taskmaster Towers. On the desk was a post-it note.
| Planning | Business planning | Leadership | Management | Managing peopleWhich team will get to have the final say?
2:00AM | Wednesday, 12 February 2014 | Taskmaster
Your products will end up looking very different depending on which team is put in charge.
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