Entrepreneurs

Eventbrite chief executive Julia Hartz is scrolling through the guest list for an event she’s created for her 20-year high school reunion using her company’s app, giving a commentary on who has bought tickets.

Christie Whitehill’s pre-Tinder dating app was once well on its way to success: She’d raised capital, partnered with major media brands and thought she had everything ready to go to change the world of dating.

When I told the seven-year-old daughter of a friend that there’s an Australian newspaper that’s just for kids, her eyes lit up.

The issue of gender quotas for Australian businesses has again hit the headlines with a suggestion from the Human Rights Commission that the federal government use its procurement processes to become a “model industry” when it comes to improving representations of women in the workforce.

It’s not about hiring women, it’s about hiring RIGHT, and that requires you to open your ears, writes Appscore Co-founder and Managing Director Alex Louey.

What happens when you run a small business, and give birth?

The thought of starting a new business to find flexibility as a single mother is enough to make even the boldest woman sweat.

Eighteen months ago, Elanation co-founder Katherine Pace never thought she’d be building a children’s company.

Anyone with ambitious goals needs to be constantly learning, something made possible (and enjoyable) through reading.

Ever get to 4pm and find yourself still in your gym clothes, even on the days you haven’t actually managed to get to the gym? It’s a problem Noa Ries knew well, especially after the birth of her first daughter.

It’s great that women are increasingly leading startups but it’s coming at a cost, with women paying themselves less in the process.

When entrepreneur Siobhan Komander started her own events business back in 2004, she had a laptop, $3000 and no clients.