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Here’s what I told a Senate committee looking at Budget’s CGT changes – and why they’re a problem for startups

I support the Government’s objectives for improving housing affordability and a fairer, sustainable tax system and changes to negative gearing and also reforms to capital gains tax (CGT). I have been a small business owner, built businesses to successful exits,...

Gallup has found only about one in five workers worldwide feel engaged on the job, but the number that should worry economies is even...

A quick note: I am not an economist, a psychologist, or an organizational scientist. This is me reading Gallup’s data and thinking out loud about it. The figures here are estimates and population-level patterns, not a diagnosis of your...

Canadian Startups Attract Record Capital at Okanagan Angel Summit

The 2026 Okanagan Angel Summit Finale concluded with more than $400,000 committed to Canadian startups, the largest amount in the program’s history. The Summit, powered by Accelerate Okanagan, is designed to bridge the gap between entrepreneurs seeking growth capital and...

Victoria’s Sepura Sells Out First Batch of Food Waste Device

Victoria-based Sepura has sold out the first production batch of root, its patented under-sink food separator, marking an early traction milestone for the B.C. sustainable hardware startup. The company said its first batch of pre-orders is scheduled to ship in...

In 1981, two researchers proposed that burnout is not simple tiredness but three separate collapses

In 1981, two psychologists published a short paper in the Journal of Organizational Behavior that quietly influences how a lot of us talk about being worn down by work. Christina Maslach and Susan E. Jackson introduced something they called the...

People who spend their Sunday rebuilding their task system instead of doing the tasks aren’t procrastinating, many are trying to feel in control of...

It is 3:47 on a Sunday afternoon and Maya is in a new database. She has been in it for an hour and forty minutes. The old one, which she rebuilt in September, had grown a kind of digital...

Xcimer just turned on the largest privately owned laser in the world — and the real story isn’t the kilojoules, it’s who gets to...

Fusion startup Xcimer Energy has activated Phoenix, a krypton-fluoride excimer laser system the company describes as the largest privately owned laser in the world. The system is a deliberate step toward a commercial laser-fusion power plant the company hopes...

Labor cans $15 million Startup Year scheme after just 8 uni students take on 2000 loans

In the Senate Estimates on Friday, Department of Education officials revealed a handful of students accessed the program. According to Innovation Aus, $80,000 in funding was released before it was discontinued in last month’s federal budget. The Startup Year scheme...

The dark side of startup success nobody warns founders about

This is the paradox that haunts modern entrepreneurs. You played by the rulebook: work hard, scale fast, push through the obstacles, and eventually, you will arrive. And it worked. But the same system that crowned you is now the...

Nine walks away from its $49 million digital media investment, Pedestrian, handing it to Richard White’s Vinyl

Vinyl (ASX:VNL) is acquiring 100% of Pedestrian Group from Nine Digital for “nominal consideration” with no other cash, debt, scrip or ongoing royalties involved. The embattled TV and publishing empire (ASX: NEC), which has fallen from a $4 billion valuation...
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Snakes, and their ladders

It confirmed the worst suspicions of embittered Australian startup founders and small business owners. We are an afterthought. We...
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