{"id":33446,"date":"2023-10-20T14:30:54","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/how-to-escape-your-employer-and-start-up-in-2012-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T14:30:54","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:30:54","slug":"how-to-escape-your-employer-and-start-up-in-2012-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/how-to-escape-your-employer-and-start-up-in-2012-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"How to escape your employer and start up in 2012 &#8211; StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"96\" itemprop=\"image\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/anzsmall.jpg\" alt=\"Sponsored by ANZ\" title=\"Sponsored by ANZ\"\/><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-18228\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\" alt=\"Sponsored by ANZ\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/anzsmall.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"https:\/\/startupsmart-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2012\/02\/anzsmall.jpg 150w, https:\/\/startupsmart-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2012\/02\/anzsmall-117x75.jpg 117w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>On the face of it, 2012 will be an ideal year for aspiring Australian entrepreneurs to make the leap and start a business.  Research shows that many employees crave a better work\/life balance, as well as the freedom to implement their own ideas.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Throw in Australia\u2019s stable economy, by global standards at least, and the falling cost of starting up, and this could be a bumper year for start-ups.  But if you\u2019re stewing over your business idea while working for someone else, how do you actually go about taking the plunge?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In this free StartupSmart webinar, author, investor and business guru Alan Hargreaves explains how you can plot your escape route in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>  <span id=\"more-5399\"><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p><\/br> <!-- Start of Brightcove Player <!-- --> <\/p>\n<div style=\"display:none\">  <\/div>\n<p>  <!-- By use of this code snippet, I agree to the Brightcove Publisher T and C  found at https:\/\/accounts.brightcove.com\/en\/terms-and-conditions\/.  <!-- -->    <object id=\"myExperience1455050779001\" class=\"BrightcoveExperience\"><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"width\" value=\"480\" \/><param name=\"height\" value=\"270\" \/><param name=\"playerID\" value=\"802565596001\" \/><param name=\"playerKey\" value=\"AQ~~,AAAAutyee_k~,PEYRpo7-g8hOVlSGndaBECBZoV9vis_U\" \/><param name=\"isVid\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"isUI\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"dynamicStreaming\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"@videoPlayer\" value=\"1455050779001\" \/><\/object>  <!--  This script tag will cause the Brightcove Players defined above it to be created as soon as the line is read by the browser. If you wish to have the player instantiated only after the rest of the HTML is processed and the page load is complete, remove the line. <!-- -->   <!-- End of Brightcove Player <!-- --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the face of it, 2012 will be an ideal year for aspiring Australian entrepreneurs to make the leap and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}