Anthill Magazine
What is Anthill?
It's a business magazine.
What’s it about?
It's about innovation, entrepreneurship and rapid business growth.
Until Anthill was launched in September 2003, the bulk of existing business titles in Australia were mainly concerned with issues of relevance to small/micro businesses or large corporations (one or the other).
Anthill was developed to bridge this gap, appealing to highly innovative and ambitious ‘fast’ growth businesses - SMEs with rapid growth potential and larger companies that realise the value of reinvention to stay ahead.
It does not focus on the traditional ‘nuts and bolts’ of business development (although this is a key element of editorial content), but instead it highlights the inspiring thrills, spills, trials and tribulations of business development and rapid commercial growth.
Business can and should be fun, right!
Hugh Whalan, 2010 Anthill 30under30 Winner
Expanding the reach of sustainable energy is no easy task. Reducing poverty in developing nations while cutting back the world's carbon footprint is a job of herculean proportions. Meet Hugh Whalan, who has co-founded a nonprofit that is making those things happen.
Luke Halliday, 2010 Anthill 30under30 Winner
The dedication of Halliday and his staff is well-illustrated by a tale he tells when asked about his biggest entrepreneurial setback. His says a recently hired technician managed to crash the server and destroy the backups of one of Mercury IT's biggest clients. Halliday and his business partner worked non-stop from 5 p.m. Friday to 12:30 p.m. Sunday rebuilding a network for 200 users. "It was all working Monday and the client knew no different," Halliday says. "Thank you, caffeine!"
Stephen Dash, 2010 Anthill 30under30 Winner
A few years ago, a young investment banker named Stephen Dash was in JFK airport in New York. He needed to access his email to learn the name and address of his hotel. But -- horrors -- his iPhone was dead. Dash paid $45 for a charger at an airport convenience store. And out of that angst came an idea that hurled Dash out of banking and into the entrepreneurial multiverse.
Steve McLeod, 2010 Anthill 30under30 Winner
In 2007, at age 23, Steve McLeod parlayed a background in emergency response into a company that became Fire and Safety Australia, which offers workplace training in every state and territory on the continent. Today, Fire and Safety Australia has 11 full-time employees and six casual staff, and McLeod serves as managing director. He also has 16 co-providers who run safety-training business as licensees of his company.
Dwayne Martens, 2010 Anthill 30under30 Winner
"I bring a new era of business ethos," says Dwayne Martens, owner of the health-food company Amazonia. "I am absolutely passionate to show conscious business is more powerful and more effective than the dollar-driven business." As for the bottom line, Amazonia moved $300,000 in product in August, and totaled $2.4 million in sales in 2009. Martens hopes to crack the $3 million mark soon.
Brad Smith, 2010 Anthill 30under30 Winner
Mini-motorcross has been a driving force for Brad Smith. Over five years, starting with his own money and funds from his family, the 23-year-old Tasmanian has built an offroad motorcycle empire that includes four stores, his own bike design, four tracks, a race series, 40 employees and a United States distribution deal.
Tarik Houchar, 2010 Anthill 30under30 Winner
Twenty-one year-old Tarik Houchar says his Sydney store Muslim fashion is "committed to the modern, fashion-loving Muslim girl. It provides fashionable, modern hijabs and Islamic fashion in a fun, exciting retail environment." Some of these words might seem at odds with hijab. But Houchar clearly knows where the lines are drawn and what young Muslim women want.
Sheng Yeo, 2010 Anthill 30under30 Winner
Yeo's startup OrionVM sells computing infrastructure as a service through the Internet -- the cloud. The result? Here's Yeo's assessment: "We have spent $30,000 to $40,000 building up a system that others spend hundreds of thousands on. Australian companies using an Australian platform don't have to deal with the 250-millisecond delay from hosting content in the United States." Hey, that's a computing eternity.
Marita Cheng, 2010 Anthill 30under30 Winner
Marita Cheng's drive to energize young girls about engineering and science has lost not one erg of energy since 2009, when she was added to that year's 30under30 list. If anything, her drive has kicked into another gear.
Dane Mitchell, 2010 Anthill 30under30 Winner
Fitness trainer and personal-health businessman Dane Mitchell is on a fast track. Mitchell employs six people at Peak Health, and figures he's within a year of being able to step away from day-to-day operations so he can focus completely on growing the business.
Sacha Krjatian, 2010 Anthill 30under30 Winner
In his final year of high school, amid preparations for his Higher School Certificate exams, Sacha Krjatian's home life crumbled. He was forced to live with family friends for nearly months, and shifted to different homes four times. Krjatian's biggest opportunity would be one of his own making.
Ravi Moerman, 2010 Anthill 30under30 Winner
At the tender age of 19, Ravi Moerman runs his own freelance sound-editing company. He provides sound design, editing and mixing primarily for government-funded short films and advertising agencies. In fact, the South Australian Film Corporation recently tapped Moerman for a project to support feature film "The Dragon Pearl," starring Sam Neill.
Nikki Durkin, 2010 Anthill 30under30 Winner
Nikki Durkin, 19, harnessed the power of Facebook to spread the word of the 99dresses concept. She held a Facebook event that described the idea and asked who might be interested. Within two weeks, 20,000 women had been invited. She then launched a fan page for 99dresses (which still didn't exist as a website) with 2,000 fans.
Aonghus Stevens, 2010 Anthill 30under30 Winner
Aonghus Stevens is the sole owner of UAVs Australia, a two-year-old company that provides all manner of remote-controlled aircraft clients that range from farmers to the Australian Federal Police. And he's only 17!
Anthill’s 30under30 winners revealed (2010)
This year, rather than release the 2010 30under30 'massive' in one shot, we're releasing the names of this prestigious set, three a day, for the next 10 days. Why do this? Well, aside from the unplanned loss of a laptop, containing our deliberations and winner profiles, this suspense filled, masterfully manipulating traffic-fueling tactic just seemed too attractive to pass up. Can you feel the ant-icipation?
Australian interactive ads score at New York awards show
ZenithOptimedia’s "6 Beers of Separation" campaign for Tooheys Extra Dry grabbed a silver award, and Visual Jazz picked up bronze for its “Dance Off 3D” campaign for fashion retailer Jay Jays at the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s MIXX Awards in New York.
How to ‘Cocoon’ your documents online: an interview with Trent Telford
This week, Leon and Garry talk to Trent Telford, founder and chief executive of Cocoon Data, a Melbourne-based internet security company. Telford’s company combines file and identity protection services, including rights management, so that documents can be secured to protect user privacy as well as right of access.
How Ian Campbell used “Master Chef” to promote appliance brand Sunbeam
Ian Campbell, managing director of Melbourne-based manufacturing conglomerate, GUD Holdings, talks to Leon and Garry about marketing, the consumer appliance business, retailers and their “philosophies” and why he does not always find them either useful or profitable. And then there was his highly successful sponsorship of the TV blockbuster “Master Chef” to promote the Sunbeam kitchen appliances company.
Telstra hurrying Government to deliver on NBN. ‘Get it finalised by Christmas!’
Leon and Garry talk about the difficulty getting the legislation for the NBN through Parliament. But the Government needs to hurry as Telstra wants to have the NBN finalised by Christmas. Telstra has also released its latest renewal plan. Meanwhile, its share price has fallen to an all-time low.
Mixed messages in the newest lending and housing stats
RMIT economist Jonathan Boymal talks about the drop off in lending finance and dwelling unit commencements. Although the numbers send mixed messages, businesses and consumers do appear to be exercising greater caution in their financial practices of late.
