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Robot makes a clean sweep Automation is an integral part of modern life: machines answer phones, wash cars and dispense cash. But there’s one aspect...

The timing was bad, but the growth was fast. In March 2000, with many internet start-ups disappearing off the radar, 25-year-old Leigh Jasper quit...

Grant Writing Grant writing is a specialist art. Writing from the heart or what you think an assessor wants to hear is not usually the...

Champ acquires golding contractors   In March CHAMP Private Equity, along with existing Golding Management, acquired Queensland-based mining and civil infrastructure services company Golding Contractors Pty...

Standard business philosophy states that there’s always something to learn from failure. Not so, according to Barry Moltz, author of Bounce! Failure, Resiliency, and...

Let’s face it, sex sells! That’s no great epiphany. But have you ever considered whether or not you have the attractor factor to bring...

Storytelling is a really important skill for entrepreneurs or any start-up. Quite often ‘a story’ is the first thing we have (after our idea...

A major challenge for any business owner is how to get others to help run the business, so that it doesn’t completely take over...

It's hard enough getting found in Google without having to struggle against complete stuff-ups by your web developer. Ever wondered if web design might be...

Companies that value their own intellectual property (IP) and are aware of their competitors’ and the competitive IP landscape will routinely watch for the acceptance and/or grant of patents by competitor companies or related entities.

One of the traps that some business owners fall into is thinking that if they announce their underlying vision for their business repeatedly, it...

Consumers are overloaded with information, choices and marketing. If you want to ensure that your marketing efforts are being applied effectively, shift your marketing...

INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT Interviewer: Paul Ryan, Editor, Anthill magazine Interviewee: Scott Karp, CEO, Publish2 Interview conducted on 14 February, 2008 Paul Ryan: In your blog post launching Publish2 back...

The solemn burial of The Bulletin earlier this year sent even the most stoic media professional into a long, hard navel gaze. Things used...

Business plans don’t end with the final word being penned. They require constant re-assessment and tweaking. Never ignore the value of a regular SWOT...

BI-GOODNESS is a bi-monthly column dedicated to the quirky, generally funny and often dangerously impractical inventions and business concepts that occasionally come our way....

Have you ever wandered off a cold and rainy street, through the open doors of a shop into somewhere warm, dry and seemingly a...

Has our recent prosperity all been one big, furry hallucination stoked by our collective sense of millennial transcendence? Whatever happened to living within your...

COMPANY NAME: E Ball Games Pty Ltd www.eballgames.com.au FOUNDER: Tony Course ORIGINS: Founded in 2004 MARKET: Large corporate sport sponsors. CAPITAL: Invested over $1m to date. Looking at staged investment of $1m+ to...

CREATIVE ESPRESSO By Stephen Sammartino ************* ANT BYTES Something in the air The irrepressible imagination of regular Anthill contributor and rentoid.com founder Steve Sammartino has borne yet more fruit....