Last week, I caught up with a successful Canberra-based sportswear retail entrepreneur. We were thrilled when we discovered that our businesses shared so many similarities—we both started our businesses from the ground up and had developed them to become multi-million-dollar enterprises within five years.

You are not happy with your current bookkeeper. What could you do? Keeping him/her and your books are a mess. This sounds fine if you want to bring your business to its knees. Or you could fire the current and hiring a new bookkeeper who could be the next one messing up your financial data.

Mint Content is a content marketing agency in the ACT with the motto “You bring the ideas. We write the words that turn your vision into profit”. Its founder, Amy Birchall, is a professionally trained journalist and content writer. 

I started my business in 2009 with little to no capital, and have since gone through a number of roller coaster rides along my entrepreneurial journey. Six years may not be a substantial amount of time for start-up veterans, but it is enough to understand the nature of entrepreneurship.

Today Australia's entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystems received some fantastic news, the Federal Government announced the provision of $1.1 billion dollars towards fostering entrepreneurship and innovation nationally, through the much anticipated National Innovation and Science Agenda (NISA)!

From a start-up to a leading bookkeeping firm, it’s been an exciting yet exhilarating journey to Tailored Accounts. What have been learnt from the journey, we believe, is valuable for all entrepreneurs who are working on their start-ups.