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Food security: Australian agriculture needs next-gen entrepreneurs. AgriFutures Australia and startup.business have joined forces to deliver an exciting education program called AgriFutures™ startup.business that teaches school kids in rural and regional Australia to solve the problems facing agriculture using innovation and an entrepreneurial mindset. Jo Burston, serial entrepreneur and Founder of Inspiring Rare Birds has a new venture, startup.business, that brings entrepreneurial learning in action into the classroom to inspire and equip the next generation Read more…

Building A Fashion Empire Moziah Bridges started making bow ties at home in Memphis, Tennessee. He regularly appears on TV shows in America and he has made bow ties for President Barack Obama. Enrol in startup.business today and you’ll receive a copy of the comic book Brilliant BusinessKids, which features Moziah’s complete story, in his own words.

Melati and Isabel Wijsen are the co-founders of Bye Bye Plastic Bags. They live in Bali, Indonesia where plastic bags littering the streets and beaches, are an environmental hazard. They started their social initiative to fix the problem.   … I was 12 when we started and Isabel was 10. As soon as we proposed the idea our community loved it. At our first meeting we had six people around the table – all of our Read more…

Brooke Martin lives in Spokane, Washington, in the United States. She designed her first device for pets and has gone on to create ICLovedOnes and ICMedMinder, specifically to help elderly people.  I came up with the idea for ICPooch because our dog Kayla would get really upset whenever we left home. She would run around the house crying and chewing our shoes, destroying the furniture and carpet. We wondered how we could make her feel Read more…

Raising Money To Change People’s Lives Ben Breeze is the founder of Ben’s Boxes and the co-founder of Kids Cut Palm Oil. He lives in Bali, Indonesia. When I was about six, I saw a video about kids having fun raising money for charity. It made me think about people I’d seen begging on the side of Sunset Road in Bali. I didn’t like how these people couldn’t do what they wanted because they had Read more…