Entrepreneur to share business success secrets
Highly-successful Sunshine Coast entrepreneur Steve Huff is set to provide a valuable lesson for local business people, educators and students at tomorrow’s Enterprise Tuesday event at the University of the Sunshine Coast’s Innovation Centre.
Mr Huff, who founded software company Typefi in 2001 as well as three other successful companies in Australia and the United States since, will discuss the topic “Avoiding Big Mistakes” at the free event from 4pm.
Typefi is now one of Australia’s most exciting software companies, with an estimated value of $40 million. Along with Typefi, Mr Huff also founded Praxis Systems, Club and Course, and his latest venture – Sixty Second Parent.
Mr Huff believes that the owners of small businesses and start-up companies will inevitably make mistakes as their companies develop and grow.
He is keen to help others avoid the difficulties he faced in growing companies from start-up to commercialisation by speaking frankly about the mistakes he made, and by providing real-life case studies and some great advice.
Mr Huff, who holds a Master of Organisational Development and was named by Forbes Radio in 2005 as one of America’s most innovative CEOs, will help Enterprise Tuesday participants identify and overcome the problems most likely to hinder them.
This Enterprise Tuesday event will be the second in a series of seven for 2008. The free events are part of a wider initiative to inspire entrepreneurship, and are based on a program of the same name at the University of Cambridge.
Each event includes a presentation by a successful entrepreneur and the opportunity for local business owners, young entrepreneurs and start-up company directors to network and meet new people.
Enterprise Tuesday is open to the local business community as well as staff and students of USC and other regional education institutes. To register, email <enterprise@usc.edu.au> or phone the Innovation Centre on 5450 2600.
— Terry Walsh