{"id":33775,"date":"2023-10-20T14:31:48","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/nominations-open-for-eys-entrepreneur-of-the-year-awards-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T14:31:48","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:31:48","slug":"nominations-open-for-eys-entrepreneur-of-the-year-awards-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/nominations-open-for-eys-entrepreneur-of-the-year-awards-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Nominations open for EY\u2019s Entrepreneur of the Year awards &#8211; StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"445\" height=\"352\" itemprop=\"image\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/l_ey-445.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"l_ey-445\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Ernst &amp; Young has opened nominations for its annual Entrepreneur of the Year awards, with the Australian winner going on to represent the country at the global awards in Monte Carlo.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEntrepreneurs have an extraordinary passion, self-belief and drive that keeps them going when others might give up,\u201d Oceania awards leader Bryan Zekulich says in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause of this, they play a crucial role in helping support and diversify the Australian economy \u2013 creating new jobs, fuelling growth and driving innovation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bert Bardoel, EY Oceania leader for strategic growth markets, told <i>StartupSmart <\/i>a good entrepreneur was a person who innovates in an industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat could be either innovate the business model for that industry or the product or services on offer in that industry,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThrough that they create a better value proposition which is the basis of their growth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Zekulich says Australia is home to world-class entrepreneurial talent.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last year\u2019s national winner was Andrew Bassat, co-founder and chief executive of online job advertiser and education services provider Seek.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Other winners have included the brains behind companies such as internet services provider iiNet, online car classifieds firm Carsales.com.au, and tech company Atlassian.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nominees are assessed on six core criteria by a panel of independent judges, including previous Entrepreneur of the Year award winners and other successful Australian business leaders: entrepreneurial spirit, innovation, personal integrity and influence, financial performance, strategic direction, and national and global impact.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nominations close March 14, with regional awards ceremonies held in July and August, with the national awards announced on November 20.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More information can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoy.ey.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ernst &amp; Young has opened nominations for its annual Entrepreneur of the Year awards, with the Australian winner going on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62444,"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\/33775"}],"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=33775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}