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Download this eBook for insights on how to cut friction and get paid faster, reduce time spent in the cash cycle, assess the costs of chasing payments, and build up trust with the right customers and suppliers.

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Many businesses are well-versed and prepared to explore debts and repayments to fund their early moves, but it’s worth thinking about grants and incentives too. Our panelists shared how their businesses sought the right funding and support from the right areas.

Every startup experiences growing pains, but it’s all part of the journey. At the Melbourne session of Scale Up: Growing your startup beyond a seed, founders came to learn how early stage startups (what AWS Startup Advisor Nikita Le Messurier called a ‘sticky-taped monolith’) can transform into world-beating businesses. Here are the headlines:

Armed with a growing business and a great opportunity, a business owner’s next challenge is to find capital. For many, while debt funding is an excellent option, there are circumstances when it isn’t the right answer — for them or for their banks.

Join us, and get to the bottom of: ethics, safety, data protection, customer trust and practical tools… so you can start to take advantage of this exciting tech, in the right way, for your business.

Rapid digitisation has helped businesses significantly lift their customer service game. Now, the adoption of generative AI is raising the bar even further.

I've created new businesses with $100,000 in advertising contracts before we have even launched - because of the relationships I have built. I attribute this to my Luck Surface Area. Coined by tech entrepreneur Jason Roberts, your Luck Surface Area is the result of doing something you're passionate about combined with the total number of people you talk to about it.  

Every unicorn has two necessary ingredients: a narrative of inevitability and the right culture. This was just one of many great lessons from the latest SmartCompany x AWS event.

On August 10 in Sydney, six Australian early-stage startups pitched their hearts out to win SmartCompany’s third instalment of the Pitch.

SMEs wishing to gain valuable insights from Australian business leaders still have a chance to enter to get a seat at the table at Flight Centre Business Travel’s Money Can’t Buy Workshop.