Queensland business unleash their tigers

MORE than one hundred Queensland businesses are on the road to growing their revenue following the first 2014 Queensland Small Business Week event in Brisbane today.

Business owners from Brisbane, Townsville, Pittsworth, Gold Coast, Mount Isa, Sunshine Coast either attended or live-streamed a panel discussion about becoming one of Queensland’s Small Business Tigers at QUT Gardens Point, Brisbane.

The event Are you a Small Business Tiger? How do you become one? was the first of five events to be hosted by Minister for Tourism, Major Events, Business and the Commonwealth Games from 1-6 September.

2014 Queensland Small Business Week is a Queensland Government initiative recognising the role small business plays in the Queensland economy.

The panel included:

• Minister for Tourism, Major Events, Small Business and the Commonwealth Games, Jann Stuckey MP
• QUT Business School’s Professor Per Davidsson
• Media personality turned entrepreneur Emily Jade O’Keeffe
• Managing Director of DBM Consultants Dhruba Ghupta
• Chief Marketing Officer of Liquid State Kit Kriewaldt
• Paul Niederer, CEO from Australian Small Scale Offerings.

Ms Stuckey said participants heard how a Queensland company was taking on the world with their products and from an authority on how entrepreneurs start, develop and harvest their ventures.

Also on this week in Brisbane, Premier Campbell Newman will officially launch 2014 Queensland Small Business Week at a business lunch at Ithaca Auditorium, City Hall on Tuesday, 2 September. The keynote speaker is Professor Josh Lerner, the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School, and head of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit, USA.

On the Sunshine Coast, the CEO of “America’s coolest little start-up” TerraCycle, Tom Szaky, will join Facebook consultant and entrepreneur Nick Bowditch on stage at the Sunshine Coast University Innovation Centre on Wednesday 3 September. The event #Accelerating Small Business includes a question and answer session with the guests.

On Friday, 5 September former international cricketer Matthew Hayden will address a business lunch, Turn your ideas into action, at Roma Explorers Inn.

Registrations are now open at www.business.qld.gov.au/smallbusinessweek. 

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