Anthill Magazine

No Roads Expeditions, a Melbourne travel company, announced that it has brought 250 solar-powered LED lights to the village of Kagi, which lies along the Papua New Guinea track. The company agreed to provide the lights in coordination with the Kokoda Track Foundation (KTF), whose Light Up the Track initiative has provided over 3,000 solar lights to 30 PNG villages.

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The 13-week program is run by PushStart, the tech startup community group, and will conclude in June. Its first intake of entrepreneurs includes everything from enterprise social media support tools, social life planning apps, blogs for new parents and, a site to help surfers swap their boards.

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Sure enough, audiences flocking to see the futuristic teen blockbuster, which has been raking in revenues right and left, were able to verify a cameo appearance by the water container in the sleek, hyper-sanitary control room scenes of the film. 321 Water founder Gretha Oost, who has not yet seen the film, said she was “blown away” when she heard about the sighting.

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A video-streaming site that’s challenging Facebook’s reign. An all-in-one hotel app for busy travellers. And a polymer technology that has winos raving. All of these products have two things in common: a) they’re Australian; b) they’re from unlisted companies represented by the Australian Small-Scale Offerings Board (ASSOB) and seeking equity capital from investors. OK, we fibbed: the third thing is that c) they are all featured in this month’s edition of ASSOB’s Smart Capital Magazine.

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Unlike other developed countries, Australia has had no comprehensive online directory to allow donors, legislators and not-for-profits to network and establish connections with each other. Connecting Up, itself a not-for-profit based in Adelaide, has announced its remedy to fill this void with the release of its directory listing of 60,000 Australian charities and NFPs.

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Is the Federal Government out of touch (and at odds?) with the country’s single most important business demographic? That seems to be the finding of independent research commissioned by Telstra Business and the Council of Small Business of Australia (COSBOA) to gauge issues of importance to small business ahead of the return of Federal Parliament.

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Australian local food pioneers Food Connect and CERES Fair Food have joined with the National Farmers Federation to call on the ACCC to break up Australia’s supermarket duopoly and ensure a more just, equitable and sustainable food future for Australian families.

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In the Gold Rush, many who struck figurative gold were not the prospectors but those who sold the pick axes and pans. The same applies in just about any market, including the mobile device ‘gold rush’. It’s not the gadget makers alone who are striking it lucky — millions of entrepreneurs who develop innovative accessories for mobile phones and tablet computers are raking it in, too. Out to grab his share of that pie is Alon Tamir, a Melbourne entrepreneur who has set up a full-fledged studio with goal of designing and building exciting new accessories under the umbrella brand of Wallee.

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AAAI is asking angel investors, individuals and groups who provide capital to start-ups to complete the National Angel Survey before next Monday, 16 January. The results from the survey will be revealed at the upcoming National Angels Conference in Melbourne on 29 February.

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As the New Year unfolds, a matter of some curiosity for entrepreneurs and businesses, as much as consumers, is the simple question: What’s will be hot? And what will not? Biotechnology, Online Education and E-commerce will be hit. But so will diamonds. Iron and steel and predicted to fall, as well as building and construction.

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