Steve Baxter on how startups can survive COVID-19

Startup founders need to be up-front and honest to employees and investors about how their company is faring throughout the COVID-19 pandemic in order to survive, according to high-profile tech investor Steve Baxter.

“I’m not here to back lemonade stands”: Steve Baxter on the best age to become an entrepreneur

When is the best time in your life to start a business or become an entrepreneur? It’s a long-running debate, with some thinking you should be as young and hungry and others thinking you should be older and more experienced.

Shark Tank’s Steve Baxter sells Brisbane start-up hub to Australian Computer Society

Mr Baxter founded RCL in his home town in 2012, funding it from his own pocket after selling fibre-builder Pipe Networks, which he co-founded with school friend Bevan Slattery, to David Teoh’s TPG Telecom for $373 million in 2010. He said he could no longer spend sufficient time on RCL.

Optus saga is a sorry tale in the pitfalls of bureaucratic overreach

The latest hack of a large consumer database has made headlines across Australia – as it should. As many as ten million current and former Optus customers may have fallen victim to the massive data breach, with those people now in the potential firing line for identity theft or worse.