The cut before the game
Tristan Miller started cutting hair in his parents' garage at seventeen. A few years later he was cutting for the CFL, NFL and NBA.
Advice from founders
Hard-won lessons.
Founders writing for founders. Real stories, real numbers, real mistakes. Each piece is contributed by a business owner and filtered by topic.
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The feeling you can’t price-match
TK Scent Experience did not begin with a candle. It began with a memory: the way a Caribbean home announced itself before you reached the door.
The punch everyone already asked for
CJ's Punch didn't start as a business. It started as the thing you brought. Rooted in a Kittitian and Jamaican family, it was the rum punch asked for by name before anyone took a plate of food.
Birth of a NATION
Nation Performance did not start as a gym. It started as a feeling its three owners had been chasing since they were the ones coming up.
Jazzy’s Brewhaus
We built the menu out of our neighbours. The beans, the bread, the brews are all local, and a lot of what comes in goes right back out into Perth.
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If you have run a business for a few years, you know things that matter to every founder coming up behind you. Mentioned exists to make that knowledge visible.
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How contribution works
- 01 Pitch us a topic from your dashboard
- 02 Write 600 to 2,000 words in plain language
- 03 We edit lightly and publish within a week
- 04 Your business is linked from the piece