Anthill Magazine

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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