Is your business ready for Covid-19?
Business Growth Australia is bracing for probable Covid-19 outbreaks which can heavily impact businesses if workers or their families become sick or if schools send children home for any length of time. Events will get cancelled and people will stop going out. At this point, you want...
11 ways to shipwreck your start-up
Business Growth Having worked with many brilliant and creative inventors over the last 15 years, we’ve had the good fortune to learn what works commercialising ideas and what doesn’t. What’s most valuable, is observing what doesn’t work and learning from other...
Turning 7!
Business Growth To be frank, when I started gemaker, I hoped that it might last three years before I had to give up playing start-up CEO in my garage and find a ‘real’ job. My wildest dream was to make a positive difference to Australian innovation and research commercialisation....
Trademarking – to do or not to do, that is the question
Business Growth What is a trade mark? A trade mark is a ‘sign’ used to distinguish a good/service from similar goods/services of other traders. It could be a business name, a product brand name, a logo, a slogan or a combination of these things. It could even be a colour, shape,...