Feature Founders
More than 700 solar retailers have collapsed in Australia since 2011. One in six installed systems now carries an orphaned warranty. Why Solar, an independent Sydney outfit, has built its model around that single statistic.
Feature Founders
Patient capital, unglamorous supply chains, and a generational bet on craft. Three founders explain why they're choosing to grow slowly, and what they've learned the hard way.
Last week, three founders told us why they had stopped growing. This week, one of them walks us through the spreadsheet. A conversation with Ellen Foley, three weeks after the deadline pressure has lifted.
Adoption is the easy part. What happens between trying a tool and getting it into the P&L is the part nobody writes about, because there is not much to write yet.
The indexation clause is the least-discussed line in a small retailer's lease, and arguably the most consequential. Five years after inflation broke out of the RBA's band, the compounding is showing up in landlord revenue and tenant margin.
The Australian craft beer failure rate in 2026 is not about bad beer. It is about a structural margin that no amount of taproom traffic can close.
Warm-inland shiraz still clears below $300 a tonne. The premium recovery is real, but it has not reached the Riverland, and the WET rebate cap has not moved in eight years.
Australia's 1.2-million-homes Housing Accord target collides with a trades workforce that is 97 per cent male. Who is doing the work to shift it, and what it actually takes.
Migrants start businesses at higher rates than the Australian-born. In 2026 the more interesting pattern is what the second generation of Vietnamese-Australian, Chinese-Australian and Indian-Australian founders are doing with the result.