Anthill Magazine

TechCrunch gets hacked. How the hunter became the hunted.

It’s not often that today’s technology media inspires thoughts of William Shakespeare. After all, the great English playwright is synonymous with eloquence, nuance, wry wit and pathos — a far cry from the tech media’s breathless obsession with Twitter, Facebook and all products beginning with ...

Entrepreneur’s Challenge: Build a startup in seven days and under $500. Day 6 — The Gateway

So you want to start a business but time and money are holding you back? Sebastien Eckersley-Maslin has set himself the challenge of launching a startup in seven days for less than $500. He’s posting daily summaries for seven days. This is his sixth post ...

Entrepreneur’s Challenge: Build a startup in seven days and under $500. Day 5 — The Design

So you want to start a business but time and money are holding you back? Sebastien Eckersley-Maslin has set himself the challenge of launching a startup in seven days for less than $500. He’s posting daily summaries for seven days. This is his fifth post ...

2009 Anthill Cool Company Awards winner profiles: Vaxine Pty Ltd (Coolest of the Cool)

For the second year running, Anthill’s overall ‘Coolest of the Cool’ Award winner is an Australian medical company, combining the commercialisation of breakthrough research with the impact of saving lives globally. In the final analysis, our judges awarded overall honours to Vaxine Pty Ltd over ...

Apple is a ‘Cathedral’. Google is a ‘Bazaar’. So where will you park your smartphone of the future?

Apple and Google have radically different approaches to building online marketplaces. So will our smartphone apps of the future be delivered from the hallowed alter or the pulsing street? Fred Wilson writes in The Power of Instant Approval that Apple is risking its lead in ...

Young entrepreneurs of the world, unite!

You don’t have to be a Vulcan to grok the good stuff that can come out of an international mind-meld as big as Global Entrepreneurship Week. Matthew da Silva sits down with the organisers and profiles some inspiring young entrepreneurial attendees. Nahji Chu sees her Vietnamese ...

5 fresh-faced beauty industry innovations

The multi-billion dollar skin-care and cosmetics industry is renowned for prolific product reinvention. Its offerings are relentlessly reworked with minor modifications here, slight variations there, and over-hyped product transformations everywhere. Yet rarely are any of these developments truly revolutionary. In recent months, however, several companies have ...

Opportunities in the US for high growth Australian firms

The US remains the largest developed market in the world and a big influence on other global markets. It remains important for any company with global ambitions. The current economic environment does not do a lot to encourage Australian firms to focus on the US. ...

Personal branding: Are you the real deal?

It’s becoming impossible to get through the day without hearing some expert or other holding forth about personal branding. They’re blogging, YouTube-ing and tweeting every hour of the day. Take Dan Schawbel, for example. The New York Times has apparently dubbed Schawbel a “personal branding guru”. ...

When seeking investment, preparation is everything

In part four of our series on the capital raising cultures in Australia and the US, San Francisco-based Steve Anderson explores how Australian and New Zealand entrepreneurs can best prepare for securing local investors. Also in this series: Part 1 – Funding in the US – Holy ...