Mental Health tips for Business Owners If I see one more ‘unprecedented times’ in an email newsletter I am likely to scream. We all know ‘it’. We are in ‘it’ and ‘it’ will take a considerable time to be back to ‘normal’. We will get...
How can business owners know what to trust 11 March 2020 will go down in history as the day that triggered the most immediate shift in global human behaviour to date, and the shift is still happening. Whilst we have seen recessions, depressions and real fear (two...
Adrenaline business acquired by BRG David Anderson and I, as co-founders of The Big Red Group, are pleased to announce we have acquired the business of Adrenaline in Australia. The team have joined us and and is thriving in their new location in Sydney city with their...
Small business success in competing I sometimes wonder who will be the last brand standing… right now it appears that Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook are winning when it comes to customer insights…. but Australian businesses can win at this game. I was...
The most successful entrepreneurial stories of our time (think Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg) have all focused on the founders’ lack of formal education. In fact, it is commonly thought that all of these men would have been prevented from achieving...
Wrap it up: How I learnt to say ‘no’, enough is enough and walk away Last week I was interviewed about the finale of Shark Tank S4 and the journalist asked – “tell me about one of your failures?” He was interviewing all five of us from the program – and...
Shark Tank Season 4 Episode 11 It’s Tuesday, we are back in the Tank, and tonight we have some BIG valuations. Something we see a lot in the Tank is entrepreneurs pitching to us and valuing their business on blue sky rather than sales and revenue. As...
Shark Tank Season 4 Episode 10 There are some interesting innovations this week on Shark Tank ranging from evolving the education system, decreasing waste pollution around this country to a business that claims it can innovate the retail industry. First in the Tank we...
