Education golden future for Coast
Lunches are a great way to get to know people. The relaxed format facilitates open discussion and relationship building. Board for the Bond Business School.
IF YOU HAD $1 MILLION SPARE, WHAT INDUSTRY WOULD YOU BE INVESTING IN NOW? If it was a spare million, I would look to high-risk and high-return investment in start-ups. I would be looking for bright, young people with great ideas. Skills in communication and interaction are very important. Schools should also offer both hard and soft options, so children get a chance to discover the things they like and are good it. Information management and big data will be hot industries for many years to come.
YOUR BIGGEST FRUSTRATION DOING BUSINESS ON THE GOLD COAST? AND HOW TO FIX IT? Australia underestimates the business skills and education opportunities available on the Gold Coast. We have good demographics, great schools and universities and a vibrant small-to-medium size business sector. A BUSINESS operator who long has been saddened by the loss of vibe in Main Beach’s Tedder Ave commented the other day that there were prospects a couple of empty shops might be gaining tenants.
For several years the street has been losing both retail and dining tenants and along with those losses its previous “buzz”.
Even some of the “posers” who used to cruise Tedder in their Ferraris and other expensive cars appear to have found the street less stimulating.
Slowly, things seem to be turning around.
Our “saddened” business owner says one of the prospective new tenants reportedly is related to the wedding business and the other might be in the beauty game.
“I don’t know how well they will do,” she said.
“The street’s been so dead we’d probably be better off with a funeral parlour.”