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How to overcome the true security risk within an organisation

Where does the ‘true security risk’ lie within an organisation and how can we tackle this easily? I have assessed, worked alongside, and observed many organizations over 16 years that have experienced risk through breaches of security being external and internal theft, loss of stock and equipment and misunderstandings from staff and suppliers which then in turn create risk and ...

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Why does filing help me get funding?

A key item on any investor’s check list is “Intellectual Property Protection”. What they are looking for is evidence that you have a protected asset that gives you a monopoly on your invention so that you can exploit your idea and get ahead of your competition. Note that an invention must be both novel (i.e. new) and have an inventive ...

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6 questions—the answers may determine your success in 2017

1. Passion Many people express this as you have to love what you do. My view is that when you get to do what you love (the other way around!) a special kind of magic unfolds. The trick here is of course to find a passion that also makes a profit. And once you find that passion you just never ...

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Insanity or doing things differently?

  Are we all going insane? You’d have to be to miss this… Challenge the Funder with panel members from the Crowd Funding Institute of Australia, St George Bank, AVCAL, GrantReady, Angel investors and venture capital experts… Register here now! Funding I am fortunate to hang around a number of banks. In the last nine months I have spent time ...

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Be Open to the Power of Funding

You’ve got a business up and running and are eagerly anticipating the moment in which the thrill of generating profit finally supersedes the money, effort and constant vigilance you have already pumped into setting it up. Now is the moment to look around for external funding methods. Often when setting up a business we begin to think of it as ...

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Accelerated Business Growth – the Four Stage Model

As I have been explaining growth to a number of business owners lately it’s occurred to me that our way of accelerated business growth can been collapsed into a really simple model; Revenue growth. We have to start with revenue growth because, while profits are important, without revenue nothing much else can grow; Establishing a board of directors or an ...

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In the world of social media, there is the good, the bad and the ugly.

A crisis can strike at any time, from anywhere and most organisations are not prepared for the unexpected. In most situations, social media can be fantastic in building communities, in getting your message to your customers/clients/stakeholders, and in adding value to your brand. But when a crisis hits, negative unplanned messages can go out-of-control in seconds which can ruin an ...

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Funding Growth: Challenge the Funder Review

Last week Business Connector ran the Challenge the Funder! event in Sydney with a series of funding experts coming together with small business owners and start-ups, to define varying methods for receiving funding, including an analysis of which funding methods work best for specific business scenarios. The evening was eye-opening for a variety of reasons, not least of which was the ...

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Big Opportunities with Big Data

Information is money, and nowhere has that statement been made more apparent than with big data. The amount of information being held by the Australian government could, if put to use in the correct way, bring in up to $16 billion dollars annually. This figure, which was released in a report compiled by Lateral Economics, goes on to say that ...

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Fast moving startup bucks the retail trend with solid bank backing

By Mike Boorn Plener, Business Connector There is no doubt that retail is a challenging game, confirmed by Peter Costello’s recent address at the ANRA Retail Nation 2014 luncheon, where Mr Costello bluntly told the CEO of Woolworths Grant O’Brien and 350 assembled top retail bosses to just move with the trend, like retail has been forced to do for ...

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