By Renata Cooper
CEO Forming Circles and angel investor
I WAS at the So You Think You Can Start Up event recently and was struck by how few women were in the room – and no women pitching for funding.
Hayley’s Born to be Chic
University graduate building an empire
By James Preston
HAYLEY Mehmet is not your typical university graduate. At just 22 she has already established a successful small clothing business called ‘Born to be Chic’, stocking some of the hottest brands in women’s fashion and shipping over 350 parcels a month.
Hayley, who has previously worked as a fashion blogger for popular Melbourne company Chadstone The Fashion Capital; initially conceived the idea for her business during a working holiday in Canada following the completion of her communications degree at UWS.