Entrepreneur
Why this patch of south-east Queensland is a micro-business hotspot
Tempted to swap the skyscrapers for the sound of wind in the trees? These entrepreneurs say there’s a reason their homes are micro-business hotspots.
- by Rosanna Ryan
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Opinion
Small business
Work is a way to make money. Please, stop calling it your ‘baby’
For as long as I can recall, I’ve squirmed when women call their careers or businesses “my baby”. As a business owner about to become a parent, I now know why.
- by Michelle Battersby
How do you start a business when somebody else owns your name? Use your nose
Following in the footsteps of other founders who have started over, beauty entrepreneur Jo Malone is striking gold a second time.
- by Damien Woolnough
Magazine
Sunday Life
The April 14 Edition
In a rare interview, Zoë Foster Blake shares her success story – how she went from magazine beauty writer, to author, to entrepreneur in a decade.
Why no one wants to start a small business any more
Australia’s 2.5 million small businesses are collapsing at a rapid rate – and there are many who say the government is adding to red tape rather than reducing it.
- by Jessica Yun
‘Bedroom coder’: Aussie game developer breaks out after Sonic success
Christian Whitehead drew international acclaim for his work with Sega and the blue hedgehog, but his new team’s first project is wholly original.
- by Tim Biggs
‘Who cares, I can do it’: How this 30-year-old Perth entrepreneur built a pretzel empire
The entrepreneur believes part of her success was the naivety of youth.
- by Tracy Vo
Fred’s empire is worth ‘almost a bil’ but he hasn’t changed his penny-pinching ways. Here’s why
Australian tech entrepreneur Fred Schebesta’s main company was last valued at $650 million, but he still uses two-ply toilet paper and his go-to shoes are six years old.
- by Ben Grubb
School’s out – and these students mean business
Across Victoria, teenaged entrepreneurs are starting and running companies at the same time as completing their high school studies.
- by Emma Koehn
Opinion
Inside China
The Chinese titans making a killing everywhere but China
Chinese entrepreneurs have been forced to take matters into their own hands.
- by Shuli Ren
‘It doesn’t quite feel like a life of success’: The reluctant son who became a billionaire
After a difficult childhood with his father, Yasuhide Uno wanted nothing to do with running the family business.
- by Min Jeong Lee, Yoojung Lee and Yasutaka Tamura