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With the move toward an Aged Care funding system which is purported to provide users with a greater choice, the following article makes for interesting reading.

 (Originally published in Australian Aging Agenda by Lisa Belardi)

Provider and consumer peak bodies are urgin...

I'm about to say something that's bound to sound a bit controversial and radical, now I know from experience that it isn't easy, BUT....

Creating a successful startup is not "rocket surgery" !

The most important thing is to ensure that you have the fundamental eleme...

The passage of the "Corporations Amendment (Crowd-sourced funding) Bill 2015"  (i.e. Equity Crowdfunding) has been put on hold/ cancelled ahead of the upcoming federal election. 

Whilst at first glance this would appear to be very disappointing- looking deep...

In a nutshell equity co-investment is a way of obtaining the expertise and skills of experienced business and finance professionals without having to dip into your cash reserves AND is designed for those businesses where the:-

 Great story, vision and passio...

As most users would be aware a few weeks ago Linked-in announced that they had suffered a data breach, and that as many at 117 million users' passwords may have been stolen.
At the time it was recommended that users change their passwords.

Well like grea...

Having helped and worked with many businesses over the years I have spoken with and listened to a number of Entrepreneurs and Founders of Start-ups, and invariably they state that the two things that they need the most in the early stages are:-
 

1. Mone...

As a successful business owner you will of course already be doing several of these within your business, however this will hopefully serve as a timely reminder for the others.

1. Make sure you have got an up-to-date 12-month forecast (by month) for profit,...

Ask a group of "Small Business Owners" and Entrepreneurs "what is the number one issue that is hampering you in growing and developing your business", and more often than not the answer isn’t “Funding constraints”  or  even “Market access” it’s invariably:-
 

“Time...

Your immediate response (after you have gotten over feeling like someone has stolen the wind from your sails) will probably be:-

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“You’ve got to be kidding!”  “I know they’re not too high, we didn’t pull these prices out of a hat!  We have done our costings, other compa...

We consistently hear about, and intuitively know the importance of work-life balance. But whilst we all know it's important, sometimes we find it hard to keep on track, with that in mind I have included the below recommendations originally suggested by Sujan Pate...