Sparking with Brilliance

For the fourth consecutive year, the Brilliant Business Kids Festival captured the true essence of innovation and entrepreneurship from students and teachers around the nation on October 15.    The Brilliant Business Kids Festival 2021 Founder of the festival, serial entrepreneur Jo Burston, founded startup.business alongside the late Dr Richard Seymour to deliver entrepreneurial learning in action programs to school students. Disrupting education seemed like the obvious way to deal with a world of work Read more…

Startup Business visits Mackay North High School

Startup Business International absolutely loves to see students involved in the Entrepreneurial Learning in Action Program working towards finding solutions in their local communities. Our Education and Program Director, Leigh Morgan, visited Mackay North High School students to find out what their region had to offer in the Agricultural space. Mackay North High School Students Students presented their work in agriculture at Mackay North High School on Wednesday 28 May 2021. Modern farming uses high-tech Read more…

How to Launch Your Business with Tamieka Garcia

New Program Launch – How To Launch Your Business with Tamieka Garcia (IBOX Fitness) Last Tuesday marked the soft launch of our new online course, Entrepreneurial Learning in Action Course at Home. To celebrate, we invited the Startup Business community to our “How To Launch Your Business” event, a candid conversation about the next steps that aspiring entrepreneurs need to take after building onto their ideas. The event kicked off with an introduction from our Read more…

Young entrepreneurs can now get credit for building their own business

Young entrepreneurs can now get credit towards tertiary studies with the course that helps them build their own business Startup Business International would like to formally announce the partnership with International House and the accreditation of the Entrepreneurial Learning in Action Program. Founder and entrepreneur, Jo Burston, stated, “”The partnership between International House and Startup Business International will ensure students that complete the Entrepreneurial Learning In Action Program will have credits even before they finish Read more…

Teachers across Australia take part in Entrepreneurial Program Professional Development​

Teachers across Australia take part in Entrepreneurial Program Professional Development “Great resources, an understanding of processes, great skills to assist my teaching, connecting with business leaders and fellow teachers.” Bill Oram Teacher, St Brendan’s College QLD At Startup Business International, we value the continuation of learning in our personal and professional lives, the wellbeing of teachers in our program is no exception. Recently, we hosted a professional development workshop with teachers from Queensland, the Northern Read more…

A Brilliant Business Kids Festival for 2020

The 2020 National Brilliant Business Kids Festival We have so many great memories from the 2020 National Brilliant Business Kids Festival. We are beyond grateful for all the support that the event has seen over the past three years. Our goal was to ignite a flame of innovation within each student who went through the Entrepreneurial Learning in Action program, to truly change the way young people are educated moving forward and highlight the potential of Read more…

Mentors Visit Great Lakes College in Foster

Local Mentors Visit Great Lakes College in Foster for the Local Schools for Local Industries Initiative By Scott Keough, GLC Careers Advisor Grant Flemming, Adam Turville, Walter Duber, Rachel Abberton and Terry Inkson. Year 10 Students from Great Lakes College in the ‘Entrepreneurial Learning in Action Program’ were visited by a group of expert mentors from the local area. The ‘Entrepreneurial Learning in Action Program’, which has been running at both the Forster and Tuncurry Read more…

The 2020 NSW State-Based Brilliant Business Kids Festival

Winners of the State-Based Brilliant Business Kids Festival Dilon Luke, October 27 2020, Coast Community Chronicle Amber Herder & Sophie Lawson with Gorokan High School Principal, Mr Matt Boake. Amber Herder and Sophie Lawson from Gorokan High School took out first prize in the NSW statewide Brilliant Business Kids Festival with their innovative, environmentally friendly idea, ‘BioBalloons’ The Startup Business State-Based Pitch Competition is an opportunity for students involved in the Entrepreneurial Learning in Action Read more…

Teachers take the wheel to develop entrepreneurial skills to drive change in the classroom

At Startup Business International, we value the continuation of learning in our personal and professional lives. Recently, we held two Professional Learning Workshops at the Sydney Startup Hub, where teachers from across Australia got the opportunity to hear from industry greats, academics and program alumni. The workshop was held to prepare teachers to deliver the ‘Entrepreneurial Learning in Action’ program within their own schools. “The ability to access resources via Canvas and to connect to Read more…

AgriFutures Australia Startup Business 2019 Report

It is becoming more and more evident as we continue working in rural and regional areas that there is an overwhelming sense of community whereby local farmers and business owners are better known to students and the school than what is usually seen in metropolitan areas. The connection to country and the land is also more evident in rural areas with young people looking for ways to solve problems to help minimise the impact of Read more…