News & Views Naby Mariyam’s career peaked in her twenties, so she got creative At 15, Naby Mariyam was at university. At 23, she arrived in Australia with a new baby. By her late 20s, her career in academia had peaked.
News & Views Manuri Gunawardena’s tech startup HealthMatch raises $18 million The largest local health-tech funding round has been taken out by Manuri Gunawardena’s Aussie health-tech platform startup HealthMatch.
Business People assumed it was a ‘lifestyle decision’ when I started my business. We need to bust the myths about female entrepreneurship More often than not, it’s assumed female entrepreneurs want to escape inflexible corporate working hours, or to pursue a creative interest or passion,
Business Dozens of women-led businesses demand urgent childcare reform A group of predominately women-led businesses are spearheading an urgent campaign calling on the Government to make early childhood education and care free.
News & Views ‘I don’t wait for permission’: Yemi Penn shares how she went from homeless to global entrepreneur Yemi Penn was 24 and had just graduated from her dream degree in mechanical engineering when to her own disbelief, she found herself homeless and pregnant.
Business Choosing the right leadership when you’re a female founder (and when to let go) There comes a time when every founder has to let go of their startup (aka, their baby) in order for it to grow and evolve.
Entrepreneurs How the Western Bulldogs’ Roz Richards launched her mobile business Roz Richards is the head myotherapist for dominant AFL team the Western Bulldogs and she’s also recently launched her own mobile myotherapy business.
News & Views 13 awesome women running start-ups & small businesses to watch This year, SmartCompany decided to showcase some women running businesses who at their core, represent the small-business and startup community.
Entrepreneurs How these founders made kids coding a $6 million business in four years The founding trio of Code Camp, a business teaching coding to kids, has been named the third-fastest-growing SME in Australia.
Entrepreneurs Bellabox co-founder Sarah Hamilton on mistakes, growth & working with her twin As bellabox nears its seventh birthday, co-founder Sarah Hamilton opens up about family matters, mistakes made & the decision to stop growing.
Entrepreneurs Fortune Magazine reports women received just 2.2% of venture capital in 2017 Fortune Magazine reports that all-women teams received just $1.9 billion of the $85 billion total venture capital invested in 2017 which is 2.2%.
Soapbox Where are the ‘dadpreneurs’? They’re running businesses & their parental status is moot Where are the ‘dadpreneurs’ Christie Whitehill asks, as she explains the problem with ‘mumpreneur’ which demotes a woman’s achievements in business.
