entrepreneurship

In our first live broadcast of the season (most of our interviews are pre-recorded), we interview Henry Hooper, the 22-year-old founder-director of Found and Out, a national music competition covering a wide range range of genres. Henry shares some interesting insights into starting a business while still studying, how to take advantage of being young in business and what motivates him to keep going.
 

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In our final interview of the season, Ed Hooper shares his story of winning the Microsoft Imagine Cup from among 200,000 competitiors in 100 countries! His winning team, SOAK, later tried to commercialise their product but never got it off the ground, an experience from which Ed shares a wealth of valuable lessons. He is now working on Just Start Small - a business incubator for students and young people.

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A break from tradition for this week's It's Business Time - interviewing someone outside our "12-25" age range! 30-year-old Antony McGregor Dey spends most of his time these days in New York, but we managed to corner him while on a rare visit home to Melbourne and get an interview! Antony tells us about his start-up company QM Codes, including an interesting anecdote of how he got his first investor, and the differences in business culture between Australia and the US.

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This week on It's Business Time we are joined by Philip Kingston, founder and CEO of Kingston Group. From founding two web 2.0 start-ups while still a uni student (Zitaki and Flogd) to running the Kingston Group with15 staff only a few years later, Phil shares his wealth of experience with our listeners.

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LIVE in the studio for week 4 was Jenny Jiang, co-founder of Melbourne Op Shop Tours. She talks about how it got started with some business plan competitions at Melbourne University, and how she took it from there to getting started up in the real world. Also shares some tips on how to get media coverage for your business.

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Live in the studio this week is Sam Lee, founder of various ventures including HydroHost, Surf'n'go Australia and most recently, Artscrowd.  He talks to us about his experiences setting up his first business at the age of 13, and what he's learnt in the process.

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In our first episode, we speak to Callum Forbes, founder of the Engage Education Foundation among other ventures. We also speak briefly to a participant from the recent Startup Camp at Melbourne Uni.

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