James Tuckerman
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What makes a good business incubator? Ask Yoda.
What makes a good business incubator? While access to the internet, clean bathrooms and top-notch meeting areas are all important, here are my three ‘concepts’ for creating a collegial working environment for fast-growth SMEs.
Why wasn’t my business in the SMART 100?
Every year, we receive a handful of requests from disappointed business owners seeking a reason why their innovation didn’t make it into the SMART 100. This year, we’ve decided to take the most efficient and least painful approach and attempt to answer this question by way of blog, by providing four of the most common reasons.
Group buying is a fad (Just don’t tell James Packer)
When any organisation or industry grows rapidly, as many of the group buying companies have already done (Spreets acquired over 500,000 email addresses from a nation of 20 million in less than 10 months), it’s hard not to wonder whether the growth is sustainable. Naturally, every market has a ceiling. Doesn’t it? Perhaps not.
This week, Anthill’s Facebook fans overtook its LinkedIn Group members. It’s kind of cool. But we’re left wondering why?
This week, Anthill’s Facebook fans overtook our LinkedIn Group members. From the day of its creation, Anthill’s LinkedIn Group has attracted a steady stream of new members — 1,819 at last count. This makes sense. LinkedIn has a commercial focus, right? This week, however, Anthill’s often-overlooked Facebook fan-base leap-frogged our LinkedIn group membership. It happened [...]
Watch this before you switch on Masterchef: The reality of reality TV
With the return of Australia’s favourite reality television franchise last Sunday night and the animated reactions of this season’s aspiring ‘Masterchefs’ (most especially as Adriano Zumbo unveiled his latest challenging desert), I was reminded of the following clip by English satirist Charlie Brooker. Not only does it include an excerpt from Monty Python but it also demonstrates how reality television can be used to tell a story that is often far from reality.
Osama bin Laden is not dead
Earlier today, I overheard the following remark in a Melbourne cafe. “Osama bin Laden is not dead. He’s just a symbol for America’s fight against terrorism.” Naturally, this was just a snippet of a broader discussion, but it got me thinking. If bin Laden is a symbol for fear and terrorism, what can we do to rob this symbol of its power?
311 ways to look bigger than you really are (lessons from Anthill’s first webinar)
On Wednesday, Anthill held its first ever webinar, with the help of Roger Courville and Citrix GoToMeeting. At its conclusion, I invited participants to share any ‘take-homes’, as a way to reinforce lessons and share their knowledge. To get the ball-rolling, here are three of my own.
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Steve Ballmer vs Alan Greenspan. Product marketing 1985-style [VIDEO]
I’ve always been a little afraid of Steve Ballmer. This video doesn’t help. In 1985, on November 20, Microsoft released Windows 1.0. Steve Ballmer, ever the affable chap, stepped in front of the camera to sell this amazing new product.
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