The four key points that judges use to adjudicate business awards
Before entering awards, it's worthwhile to understand how the judges will approach your application.
Five lessons on scaling your customer service from Smart50 winner Foodbomb
Face-to-face conversations and phone calls with users helped Foodbomb build its award-winning platform — but they aren't practical at scale.
There’s value in the process: Why you should enter business awards, and seven winning strategies
The process of applying is a valuable opportunity to break down and evaluate the separate pieces of your business.
The pandemic is causing small businesses to drop their prices. Here’s why that’s a terrible business strategy
For small businesses, uncertainty can often lead to a knee jerk reaction of dropping prices to give a perceived market advantage as customers get thinner on the ground.
The race to the market: Here’s why waiting to launch your product could lead to market dominance
Research shows companies that rush to be first to market can experience lower profits and market share, and worse products for consumers.
Here’s how The Lean Startup methodology is still holding up in 2021
Ten years after being released, SmartCompany Plus examines which strategies in The Lean Startup hold the most value for entrepreneurs today.
COVID-19 means more businesses are now strategically planning for the future: Research
New research shows that the process of identifying, planning for and dealing with the challenges of the pandemic could hold a silver lining for businesses.
Cheat sheet: The four steps to nail your rebrand
There's real value in rebranding if you can generate media attention and define your brand perfectly for your market. Mia Fileman shares her tried-and-tested strategies.
Four ways to plan ahead for post-pandemic shopping
It’s the longer-term impacts — particularly for consumer shopping behaviour — that offer challenges and opportunities for Australian retail.
Need a lift? How Gilmour Space Technologies is competing with SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Virgin Orbit to send startups into space
The family-run space startup set itself the high ambition of sending an Australian-made rocket into space in 2022.
Selling space: How Myriota brings its high-tech back to Earth
South Australian space startup Myriota spun out of a breakthrough at the University of South Australia in 2015, and six years later has attracted more than $50 million in outside investment.
What Rebekah Campbell learnt about partnerships from Canva’s Melanie Perkins and Cliff Obrecht
Half of all business partnerships fail, so what makes others succeed? For Canva, it comes down to trust and team accountability.
