The first episode of Shark Tank proves that a good idea that solves a common problem, combined with a healthy dose of sheer determination is sometimes all it takes to start a fast-growth company. Key Takeaways Skincare entrepreneur Davey Rooney was the first entrepreneur to face a new panel of judges on the latest season […]
Tennis Australia has revealed its AO Startups incubator has accepted its mid-year intake. Among the seven global start-ups accepted into the program is one Australian business, digital wayfinder PAM. Forbes Australia meets the founder. Tennis Australia’s start-up incubator, AO StartUps, has announced its mid-year intake, with the start-ups accepted set to pilot their technologies during […]
Amanda Healy is an indigenous woman who employs 850 people at her engineering business. And she’s bent on straightening out what’s crooked in the land of opportunity. Amanda Healy was working up near the Arctic Circle, doing human resources for BHP as they built Canada’s first diamond mine when she faced a problem no male […]
Alphinity’s Global Portfolio Manager, Mary Manning, started as an investment banking analyst working in New York, London and Moscow. She has also worked for Soros Funds Management and Oaktree Capital. The Alphinity Global Fund has about $10 billion in funds under management. She speaks about the offshore investment landscape, why earnings are important, why you […]
Lidia Morawska is a Distinguished Professor at Queensland University of Technology, a TIME 100 Most Influential Person and now a L’Oréal – UNESCO For Women In Science Laureate. She speaks to Forbes Australia about her life’s mission to improve indoor and ambient air quality – a problem that costs the global economy trillions of dollars. […]
Kym O’Leary founded her business, COgear, a decade ago after working nearly the same time in the mining industry and watching her female colleagues wear men’s gear. There was no alternative, so she created it. Kym O’Leary was in a meeting with her then manager at Anglo American, who was heavily pregnant, and seven other […]
If there was ever a case for entrepreneurs being born and not made, Ruslan Kogan is it. He talks exclusively to Forbes Australia about his journey from being a migrant kid in housing commission flats in Melbourne to one of the country’s most successful tech entrepreneurs. At the age of six, for example, he discovered […]
Naomi Simson is the founder of experience gifting giant RedBalloon and one of Australia’s best-known entrepreneurs. In 2017, she co-founded Big Red Group, the biggest experience marketplace in Australia and New Zealand. It serves an experience every 18 seconds – the equivalent of 1.5 million a year. The former Shark Tank judge shares the habits […]
How a bunch of school friends built a $3-billion company in Brisbane’s Logan district. Andrew Barnes and Vu Tran were in high school and needed a job. They could have stacked shelves at Coles for $15 an hour. Instead, they started a software business and “made a dollar an hour”. Watching on in the year […]
Chances are you’ve seen a surfer down at the local beach flying over the water’s surface on what looks like a hoverboard. The electric foil, jokingly dubbed the “jet-ski killer” by David Trewern, CEO and founder of Fliteboard, started as a passion project – now it’s on nearly every superyacht in the world. Six years ago, […]