{"id":44751,"date":"2023-10-20T15:38:24","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/adore-beauty-founder-kate-morris-on-the-importance-of-high-speed-internet-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:38:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:38:24","slug":"adore-beauty-founder-kate-morris-on-the-importance-of-high-speed-internet-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/adore-beauty-founder-kate-morris-on-the-importance-of-high-speed-internet-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Adore Beauty founder Kate Morris on the importance of high-speed internet &#8211; StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"332\" itemprop=\"image\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Kate-Morris-640x332.jpg\" alt=\"Kate Morris CEO \/ founder Adore Beauty\" title=\"Kate Morris CEO \/ founder Adore Beauty\"><\/div>\n<p><em>SmartCompany is speaking to small business owners and members of the small business community about the issues that are most important to them in the lead up to the 2016 federal election.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Kate Morris founded her online retail business Adore Beauty in her garage back in 2000.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Today, the company turns over around $15 million and has its eyes set on tackling the Chinese market. Adore Beauty is located in Northcote, which is situated in the federal seat of Batman.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This year, Batman is shaping up to be a fierce contest between Labor incumbent David Feeney and Greens challenger Alex Bhathal.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s the biggest issue for me? Right now, to be honest, it\u2019s the NBN [National Broadband Network]. It has really only come to my attention since we moved premises and moved away from NBN infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>We now remember how bad it is to try to run a business on copper. It\u2019s just impossible.<\/p>\n<p>For me, it\u2019s not just a problem for our business \u2013 it\u2019s any business. It\u2019s brought it home to me how much a waste of time it is throwing money on innovation in any way unless you have the right infrastructure in place for tech-enabled businesses to grow.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve got to get the basics right first. Otherwise, it doesn\u2019t matter what kind of window dressing you put on it \u2013 innovation boards and that sort of thing. In the end, if you don\u2019t have infrastructure you can\u2019t innovate.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than the NBN being an election issue, I\u2019d rather it be something we all agree is fundamental for the future of business in this country. The thing that really infuriates me is turning it into some political point-scoring opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not about Netflix. And it\u2019s certainly not about what we need right now, even though that\u2019s not being met.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s about what Australia needs to be globally competitive into the future.<\/p>\n<p>Australia is a long way from anywhere. The internet is more important to us than anywhere else if we want to keep businesses here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>This article was first published on SmartCompany.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Follow StartupSmart on<\/em> <em>Facebook,<\/em> <em>Twitter,<\/em> <em>LinkedIn<\/em> <em>and<\/em> <em>Soundcloud.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SmartCompany is speaking to small business owners and members of the small business community about the issues that are most<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59105,"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\/44751"}],"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=44751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}