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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 ...

Debate rages at Mumbrella/Anthill Online Marketing by Design in Sydney last night — #mumhill feed

There were plenty of great insights and conversations about marketing and social media shared at last night’s Online Marketing By Design event held at the Shelbourne Hotel in Sydney, co-hosted by Mumbrella and Anthill Magazine. We videoed proceedings and will be posting the best bits on ...

Website of the Week: The Loop helps creative people sell themselves

Creative industries have changed dramatically over the past decade, but unfortunately the options for creative professionals to showcase their talent to peers and prospective employers hasn’t. Until now. When it comes to recruiting creative talent, most employers still rely on word of mouth rather than running ...

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 ...

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 ...

Research: Australians lead the world in time spent on social media

A recent survey by The Nielsen Company has shown a global rise of time spent on social networking sites, such as Facebook and Twitter, of two and a half hours for December 2009 and December 2008. Going from three hours to five and a half ...

Entrepreneur’s Challenge: Build a startup in seven days and under $500. Day 7 — The Launch

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

How Eugene became a porn king in Japan

This fast and furious clip is provided courtesy of ignite – a series of super speedy presentations where the speaker is given five minutes and 20 slides that auto advance every 15 seconds. The following presentation is a ‘must see’ for any entrepreneur or technology ...

Parody highlights the forgotten victims of modern media mayhem

There has been much coverage of the death of print media and the ever increasing switch to online journalism. However, as this Hungry Beast parody shows, there is a group of once-glorified citizens who have fallen victim to this passage of progress and the inevitable ...