From Start-Up to Established: Navigating Business Growth

What does it take to move a business through the stages of growth?

Growing a business is hard. At different stages, business owners face new decisions about where to invest, what risks to take, what needs to change and what is important to hold onto.

Following this year’s MBS Alumni Reunion, join fellow MBS alumni business owners for a practical conversation exploring the real growth journeys of two business owners who have built and grown their businesses from start-up to established.

MBS alumna Soklang Eng and the MBS Entrepreneurship Alumni Chapter will explore the growth journeys of two business owners:

Josh Murray
Founder & Head of Strategy, Josh’s Rainbow Eggs and current MBS MBA candidate

Jonathan Edmonds
Founder & CEO, La Vita Care and MBS alumnus (MBA 2014)

The conversation will explore:

• The decisions that unlocked the next stage of growth
• Where they invested
• The risks and trade-offs that came with those decisions
• What it actually took to move from one stage to the next
• What worked, what didn’t, and what they would do differently with hindsight
• .What they deliberately held onto as the business grew

Expect a candid, practical conversation grounded in the experience of actually growing a business.

Who is this for?
MBS alumni who own or operate an SME business and are thinking about their next stage of growth.

Format
In-person only, live interview followed by drinks, canapés and networking.

6:30pm - Arrival and Registration

6:45 - 7:45pm - Live interview and audience Q&A

8:00 - 9:00pm - Networking and light refreshments

Tickets: $25 per person (includes the live interview, drinks, canapés and networking

Registration closes Wednesday, 4 November 2026


This event is organised independently of Melbourne Business School by Soklang Eng (MBA 2013) and the MBS Entrepreneurship Alumni Chapter. The School is grateful to Chapter leaders, Priyanka Nadkarni (MBA 2014), Leo Leng (Master of Business Analytics 2015), Rahul Sud (MBA 2025) and Robert Lee (MBA 2025) for leading this event.