“Happy workers are more productive” has the suspicious neatness of a sentence invented for a management presentation.
It is agreeable, difficult to oppose and vague enough to survive almost any result. Happiness can mean job satisfaction, enthusiasm, a good morning...
Business decisions during wartime rationing don’t usually get remembered eighty years later. Most companies faced the same problem, most made the same call, and most of the resulting compromises got quietly absorbed into corporate lore as necessary adjustments to...
ENVO Drive Systems has developed something akin to LEGO Technic for adults.
The B.C. company has developed several different types of electric vehicles during its decade-plus in business, engineered in-house to excel at specific tasks.
But ENVO’s most intriguing offering is...
Earlier this year, we reported on a startup based in Vancouver innovating broader accessibility to medical laboratory testing.
Numia Health, launched last year by chief executive officer Adrián Sahagún, utilizes licensed physicians and accredited Canadian labs to deliver real lab...
The round was led by Silicon Valley VC Lobby Capital, with support from OIF Ventures, Investible, Concept Ventures and Baobab Ventures.
Apate previously raised $2.5 million, led by OIF, a year ago. It now has operations in Australia, Europe,...
We sell concentrated cleaning sheets, the kind that replace a two-litre plastic bottle of detergent with something that fits in a drawer. There are two of us, we have no staff, and every dollar in the business is ours.
Our...
Cofounder and CEO Jack Zhang announced the annual initiative – Latitude 37 is a reference to Melbourne, where Airwallex began -in April and received 100s of applications from local startups before a panel of VCs and company execs selected...
Australian entrepreneurship is becoming harder to define by a single measure of success.
For some founders, growth means building a global brand. For others, it means protecting threatened landscapes, creating regional jobs or finding new ways to solve problems that...
Two and a half minutes can feel almost spacious beside 47 seconds. Yet those are the bookends Gloria Mark uses to describe one of the longest-running changes her workplace research has documented: how long people remain on a screen...
Somewhere between the pillow and the edge of the mattress, a nightly negotiation over territory takes place. More often than not, the pet wins.
The assumption that follows tends to be unkind. Sharing a bed with an animal gets read...
