Tag: Small Business

Budget 2022: Small business gets digital and skills boost

Posted on   |  by James Riley
After a tough couple of years, Josh Frydenberg has dropped some tax-break love on Australia’s small businesses in the form of targeted concessions to encourage investment in digital technology...

Qld govt seeks SMB policy input

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Queensland Government is calling on small business owners and early stage startups with fewer than 20 employees to take part in new consultation panels to assist the development...

Kate Carnell on small business

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Government’s tendency to think of small business as little big business is just plain wrong, according to Kate Carnell. And when it comes to innovation the problem is particularly...

Jack Ma: SME’s own the future

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Having a proven entrepreneurial nose for making the right (serial) bets on the next big trends in all things digital – including changing customer behaviour – and then spinning...

Small biz: Disrupt or be disrupted

Posted on   |  by Stuart Kennedy
Down in the small business trenches these days the word is not so much ‘eat or be eaten’ as ‘disrupt or be disrupted’. Buzz phrase niceties aside, the effects...

Tech smarts shine at Telstra Awards

Posted on   |  by James Riley
A Western Australian security firm took the top honours at the prestigious Telstra Business Awards in Sydney last night, at an event crowded with tech innovation and entrepreneurial smarts....

The Interview: Bruce Billson

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Bruce Billson is having an outstanding year. The indefatigable Small Business Minister has enjoyed success in his portfolio like no one else in Cabinet as the key driver behind...