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Does Melbourne do better small business?

By Jen Bishop on Monday, 29 June 2009
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Dell has just announced the finalists in its 2009 Small to Medium Business Excellence Award and it struck me that half of them are from Victoria. Sydney has always held the reputation as the big business hub of Australia, but could it be that Melbourne is winning the race in the SME stakes?

Of the final 10, five are from VIC, two from WA, two from NSW and one from QLD. Could it be the same things that attract people to Melbourne as a place to live are the same things that make its entrepreneurs succeed there?

Does Melbourne’s arty, cultural side make for a more creative, globally aware, savvy businessperson? Is the more relaxed vibe, where something a little different is embraced, more suitable for the smaller business that could go unnoticed in Sydney’s CBD?

What do you think?

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  • Jen Bishop, editor, Dynamic Business from Sydney
    24 July 2009 at 9:54 am

    Glad you’re enjoying my blog Sara :)

  • sara from us
    23 July 2009 at 1:54 pm

    I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don\’t know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.

    Sara

    http://smallbusinessgrant.info

  • Emily Peterson – Director Legal Tender from Victoria
    8 July 2009 at 3:08 pm

    I am a young female entrepreneur that has launched a small business in Victoria and recently expanded into NSW. The business is an online lawyer and client matching service where lawyers “tender” for client’s work. What I can tell you is that the response to this new service has been over whelming in NSW compared with Victoria. In my experience, in many respects, NSW seems to be less conservative and therefore more open to new type ventures than Victoria. In that regard, NSW may be the better place for innovative small businesses to launch.

  • Adeline Teoh from NSW
    6 July 2009 at 5:37 pm

    If you research the town planning laws in Melbourne versus Sydney, Melbourne have made provision for smaller, low-rent spaces in its CBD whereas Sydney has not.

    What this means is that small businesses in Melbourne are encouraged into high traffic areas and the financial risks of going into business is considerably lower.

    Sydney Mayor Clover Moore is working towards implementing various strategies to encourage more of these smaller businesses in the Sydney CBD but there’s been lacklustre support, mainly as the city is in the grips of developers who tend to look at their own projects and not the effect of their building on the area as a whole.

    Melbourne has it right and has a better mix of big and small businesses in its CBD as a result.

  • William from Jobs or Business from Queensland
    30 June 2009 at 12:05 am

    Sydney has always been a big place for business. I think Melbourne have more small business entrepreneurs. Sydney will always be a good place to do business, no doubt. Small business entrepreneurs when work along with big business houses make a Great Country.

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