Anthill Magazine

To give up or go on: Is it time to call it quits?

Eight years ago I found myself on the floor in tears. My father had just passed away, my business was failing and my love life sucked. Oh wait! That’s always sucked (and not in the good kinda way). I was at a cross roads in my ...

The 10 best strategic business slides of all time: #7 — Positioning

In the seventh post in this series, Nigel Malone shares the contents of another of his favourite business keynote slides, drawn from a cross-section of sources that includes some of the great business, brand and military planners of all time. Also in this series: Favourite ...

Create a marketing campaign in 60 seconds

Stuck for an idea for your next marketing campaign? Short on the cash to fund it? Pick a card. Elaborate professional marketing is mostly out of bounds for startups and SMEs. While many resources are available to the small business owner, it often come down a ...

A goal-setting technique that works

This year you’re going to follow through and make the changes in your life you’ve been talking about for ages. That’s right. You’re going to get that new job, shed those extra kilos, find a new relationship, start that novel, take some classes, go on ...

LinkedIn helps Irish startup raise over $250,000 in 8 days

Limerick-based software startup Goshido recently completed its first round of private fundraising in only eight days. What is more impressive is that it accomplished this feat solely via the social media networking site LinkedIn. Investors were offered 10 slots valued at €25,000 each and representing two ...

How to supercharge employees: Just ask them to buy the company, like Bam Creative did

Late last year, Miles Burke, the founder of Perth-based Bam Creative, engineered a coup d’état within his own business. He invited all the company’s employees to become shareholders. Bam started the new year with everyone buzzing around the office, genuinely working for the collective good ...

Six things you should know before meeting with a US venture capitalist

Solar-Gem CEO Khimji Vaghjiani, winner of last month’s Australian Innovation Shoot Out in California, presents a checklist all international entrepreneurs should consider before sitting down with US venture capitalists. Many Australian companies set their capital raising sights on California’s Silicon Valley, as the availability of venture ...

Free ASX know-how forum to help small caps grow with IPO

The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) announced yesterday that it will be staging a free IPO workshop, on 16 February, for small cap companies (companies with a market capitalisation of between $300 million and $2 billion) interested in growing their business through public listing. The event, held ...

NSW launches scheme to help SMEs with funding and research access

Of note to NSW SMEs and public sector research organisations (PSRO) is the launch last week of the NSW government’s TechVouchers scheme, a pilot program to encourage collaboration between SMEs and PSROs based in NSW. The program will be jointly implemented through Industry and Investment ...

Q&A: Renai LeMay on going solo and launching a news service

Some weeks ago, Sydney-based tech reporter Renai LeMay tweeted his plans to leave ZDNet Australia. He then told us, on the day after Australia Day, that he had launched Delimiter, a technology news wire service in direct competition with the AAP. A week on from ...