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An Aussie swimming coach sells training secrets to the Chinese and it hits the front pages of the tabloids. Fair enough. But our precious...

A looming IT skills crisis threatens to leave scores of promising Australian technologies underdeveloped and uncommercialised. Brad Howarth recently attended Microsoft’s annual ‘Imagine Cup’...

Domenic Carosa founded destra Corporation (then called Sprint) with his sister Anna in 1993. By 1998, destra ran a number of the leading entertainment websites in Australia. In 2000, the company reverse-listed on the ASX a matter of hours before the tech crash on Wall Street. After diversifying into web hosting to survive the dot-com recession, Carosa took the company back to its digital media roots in 2005 and built it into a $100m company with 300 staff nationally. Earlier this year, Carosa became a casualty of the Opes Prime collapse, which resulted in him losing his equity in destra and his departure from the company he built and loved.

Thoughts of 3D Chess came to me the other day as I tried to explain to a friend the entrepreneurial process for designing and...

Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield is a free agent again. After creating the world’s premier online photo-sharing community, selling it to Yahoo and spending three years working inside the walls of that now troubled internet giant, he’s out and ready for something new. Paul Ryan sat down with him in Melbourne at the recent X|Media|Lab conference.

Entrepreneurship education comes of age Gaining the confidence to plot your business’s next step without knowing all the answers is the key to entrepreneurship education,...

THE AIRPORT ECONOMIST By Tim Harcourt Allen and Unwin   Catriona Rowntree may soon be looking for a new job because Tim Harcourt, Chief Economist at Austrade and...

Fixing the lights Most people are well aware that the chemical element mercury is toxic. However, many people aren’t aware that mercury is still used...

We decided to list 168 steps (for want of a better random number). Of course, coming up with 168 steps is even harder than writing them, so we called on our trusty readers via the Anthill blog, in what has since been described as an experiment in Magazine 2.0 (reader-generated print content).

With Australia’s private business community facing the spectre of economic uncertainty and the credit crunch, it is tempting to batten the hatches and wait...

Letter to the Editor Not all Anthill readers thought the axing of Commercial Ready (CR) was an unmitigated disaster for the start-up ecosystem in Australia....

There has been a lot of criticism of late about bio-fuels and, like many issues, the good technologies are being tarred with the same...

If it’s true that necessity is the mother of invention, I never want to get in a car with either Bernhard Mattes or Gottfried...

G’day Anthillians. Everyone’s yakking on about Gen this and Gen that, trying to figure out the perfect pitch that will make them rich. But...

With everyone scrambling to figure out exactly what works online – what makes people’s mouse-trigger finger itch and why – it was only a...

Traditional commercialisation is not a core function of a university, but engagement with the community (including industry) is, argues Rowan Gilmore. In case you’d missed...

The concept of innovation has received more attention this year than any year in recent memory. We invited Federal Innovation Minister Kim Carr to...

Australian exports to China and India are booming on the back of insatiable demand for commodities. However, that’s not the full picture. Tim Harcourt...

What does it take to thrive in California, the epicentre of America’s ICT economy? Brad Howarth recently travelled to San Francisco in search of...

What does it take to thrive in California, the epicentre of America’s ICT economy? Brad Howarth recently travelled to San Francisco in search of...