Australian startup MilkRun may have attracted more than $85 million in venture capital but it always had a challenging business model.
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Serena Williams’s investment in a Nigerian digital company shows why the country’s technology sector is attractive.
Both Spacs and bitcoin went rocketing up in price only to come crashing back down. And that’s not all they have in common.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution failed to deliver; it’s time that we put our faith once again in hard science.
Good business requires good governance, and startups require a particular kind of governance to help them grow and prosper. That’s why it’s so important for startups to get governance right early on.
Investment in tech businesses is crumbling but the winners are eyeing up the losers.
China rose to become the second biggest market for venture capital in the world. Then came COVID-19.
A recent executive order from President Trump won’t do much to help the US stay ahead of Chinese innovation and investment in AI.
There are a lot of similarities between the state of tech companies today and when the 2000 dot-com bubble burst.
In the last year, workplace culture faced major upheaval for working women. We at The Conversation put together our reporting on that very topic from 2018.
Talk of Saudi Arabia helping Elon Musk take Tesla private is the latest example of a long line of sovereign wealth fund investments.
Within the world of cryptocurrencies, ICOs are the way to raise funds – but without any government oversight.
Ordinary people, startups and even the economy in general are being held back by an arbitrary distinction – what does it mean to be a “sophisticated investor”? It doesn’t need to be this way.
Australia is still far too ‘arms-length’ from the process of starting and growing companies.
Brexit’s presents some problems for startups in labour, trade and regulation but its not all bad.
Private equity-backed floats may not deserve the bad reputation they have.
Corporations that set up venture capital funds must choose wisely between internal or external fund structures.
Transforming Australia into an innovation powerhouse will require overcoming these 10 key challenges.
Bill Ferris talks about the need for Australia to bring its ideas and inventions to market, and the way to tackle a business culture that fears failure.
We have never had a sparkling startup tech sector in Australia, but that doesn’t mean we should try and emulate Silicon Valley.
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Associate Professor of Finance, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Practice, Associate Dean, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Emeritus Professor & UTS innovation adviser, University of Technology Sydney
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Senior Lecturer in Finance, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Finance, UNSW Sydney
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Dean of Essex Business School, University of Essex
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Senior lecturer, University of Glasgow
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Professor in Entrepreneurship and Small Business Finance, University of St Andrews
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Professor of Enterprise, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Visiting Professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Finance, IE University
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ANZ Chair in Business Growth. Director, Australian Centre for Business Growth, University of South Australia
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Professor of Accounting, Loughborough University
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UNSW Sydney
