{"id":35453,"date":"2023-10-20T14:38:41","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/nathan-murphy-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T14:38:41","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:38:41","slug":"nathan-murphy-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/nathan-murphy-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Nathan Murphy &#8211; StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"90\" height=\"110\" itemprop=\"image\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/nathan-murphy.jpg\" alt=\"Nathan Murphy\" title=\"Nathan Murphy\"\/><\/div>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17338\" style=\"margin: 5px; float: right;\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/nathan-murphy.jpg\" alt=\"Nathan Murphy\" width=\"90\" height=\"110\" \/>Name:<\/strong> Nathan Murphy <\/p>\n<p><strong>Business name:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Audio High School\" href=\"http:\/\/www.audiohighschool.com.au\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Audio High School<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Age:<\/strong> 20<\/p>\n<p><strong>State:<\/strong> NSW<\/p>\n<p>  <span id=\"more-4275\"><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nathan Murphy may simply call his journey to business ownership as a \u201cparadigm shift\u201d, but Audio High School represents nothing short of a remarkable turnaround in his fortunes.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Until relatively recently, Murphy was living rough on the streets of Darwin, following a family falling-out.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Even during this dark time, however, he harboured ambitions to start a business. After being given what he calls a \u201ckick up the bum\u201d by the Salvation Army, which helped Murphy to a fresh start, he went about making this dream a reality.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Murphy\u2019s business, Audio High School, provides digital audio versions of educational texts, reducing the need for tech-savvy high school students to carry around lots of books.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Using services such as Freelancer.com, Murphy bootstrapped his business and set about forging relationships with publishers.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He now hopes to get the service into as many schools as possible, having taken on technical help and winning a contract with Vision Australia to supply the service to vision-impaired students.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Murphy says that he is particularly inspired by the story of Virgin Group founder Richard Branson.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was dyslexic, he was poor, he went to jail, he was in five figures of debt, but then one day he looked at his life and completely turned it around, now he\u2019s worth over $3 billion, he owns over 300 companies in the Virgin Group, and he\u2019s making the world a better place every day,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name: Nathan Murphy Business name: Audio High School Age: 20 State: NSW \u00a0 Nathan Murphy may simply call his journey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62223,"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\/35453"}],"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=35453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}