Inspiration for Entrepreneurs
Tennessee Valley News Video I left the DEP at the beginning of 1988 to start my own Eco-Tourism business. I took groups of people around Australia and described the ecology, aboriginal history, flora and fauna to them. I was living with Simon Hackett at the time and he was working at The University of Adelaide, […]
When I was young I wanted to follow in the career footsteps of Harry Butler and David Attenborough, I also wanted to follow in the creativity and fashion footsteps of Kate Bush and Spandau Ballet! So, I studied Zoology at Adelaide University and obtained my first job as a Scientific Officer in the now defunct, […]
In my last year of studying Zoology at the Adelaide University many of my friends, who had also studied marine ecology with me, started to travel to Queensland to do voluntary work with the National Parks and Wildlife Service. They came back with great stories of volunteering for the turtle tagging project run by Col […]
Age 16, 1981 Every entrepreneur needs to learn how to sell. There is no better way to learn to sell than going to work for a franchise or worldwide retailer. Just because you are an entrepreneur doesn’t mean you have to start every business by yourself. There are great advantages in spending periods of time […]
Most entrepreneurs start young. Even if it’s just a garage sale, or a lemonade stand, a local raffle or biscuit bake. In nearly all entrepreneur’s backgrounds you will find a fledgling business venture. I started mine at Christmas time when I was 13. After school every day I walked past a really big newsagent. Inside […]
Way back in 1979, when I was a 14 year old school girl, Miss Jones came into maths class one morning with some exciting news. “Today we are going to program a computer to create a calendar, for 1980, and print it out.” OMG! Could we really do that? Could a computer calculate all the […]
My first encounter with creative genius was my brother. He was 3 yrs younger than me. And, said the psychologist, at age 3 and a 1/2 had the mind of a six yr old. His talent was music so my parents bought him a ukelele. He played this with gusto. But as he grew he […]
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