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Mr 1% Spend had an encounter with the CEO of Petulance Corporation recently. It was illuminating. "The silence on the end of the phone was deafening. For any of you who have kids, it was that silent pause you get between saying no to whatever it is your toddler wants and the instant that the tears and screaming starts. Then the screaming started.”

If you receive our weekly Beer O'Clock (the Best and worst of Anthill TV for the week) email on Friday afternoons, you might have noticed that it went out a little early last Friday - about 3pm. The truth is, we were pretty much done for the week, so we hit send and took our own Beer O'Clock advice. And it seems we weren't alone.

It would be impossible to watch these videos and not feel a slight warm and fuzzy feeling about the future of entrepreneurship in Australia. On Friday night, the bright young things at Entrepreneurs Week (eWeek) concluded seven days of entrepreneurial activities with the program's flagship event, the Innovators’ Challenge.

An over-efficient accounts payable person can be the worst enemy of cashflow in a business, writes Sue Hirst.

For those unfamiliar with the proposed Commonwealth Commercalisation Institute (CCI), the initiative was announced as part of the 2009 Budget. At the time, Nick McNaughton, writing for Anthill, made the observation that the CCI should be viewed as welcome relief, citing Powering Ideas - An Innovation Agenda for the 21st Century and Australia’s failure over the last decade to keep up an appropriate level of investment in innovation compared to our peers.

Designed to help high net worth individuals become successful Angel Investors. Angel investing involves active mentoring and coaching of an early stage management team towards a successful exit or additional funding, probably from a venture capital firm. This book sets out a comprehensive and rigorous process which will help the Angel generate deal flow, evaluate investment proposals and manage the investment and subsequent harvest. The book also provides a useful guide to managing operational risks in the venture.

30under30 winner David Ball (Askatradie.com.au) joins Anthill's blogging fraternity this month with a new column, Friday Drinks with an Entrepreneur. This week: Brett Clark, ePharmacy.com.au.

This eBook by celebrated Australian entrepreneur and lecturer Dr Tom McKaskill was developed as entrepreneur’s guide to securing venture finance.

This eBook by celebrated Australian entrepreneur and lecturer Dr Tom McKaskill was developed as entrepreneur’s guide to securing venture finance.

Ok, so I’m not talking about 10-year-old boys on Ritalin selling lemonade on the corner of a suburban street. I’m talking about small and medium enterprise with Advertising Deficit Disorder. Chances are, that’s you.

I’m in the middle of raising another round of capital and it occurs to me that one of the costs of professional investment, especially with VCs or Private Equity firms, is complexity. Not many people talk about this.

You might have cut staff, discounted your prices, rationalised expenses and seem to be working harder than you ever have to make less money. However, in all this change, have you sat down and spent the time on comprehensively reviewing your marketing?

Last year, the continued emergence of online consumer voice and choice collided with the global economic downturn, delivering consumers both the will and tools to demand a greater level of accountability from their financial service purchases. Enter HelpMeChoose.com.au...

When: October 8 and 9 Where: Sydney Web Directions brings together hundreds of web designers, developers and other web professionals from around Australia and the world,...

Yesterday, we posted an article about Dean Collins, an Australian expat in New York who is claiming to be sued by Twitter for his application TwitterButler. The good people at Mashable, one of the internet's most popular technology news websites, have also been tracking this case.

If Google's growing capability to monitor and cache all your communications, top-secret data and adventures in cyberspace has you worried, fear not! The satirical Onion News Network reports that Google HQ has come up with an answer... a facility where you can opt out of life in the Googleverse.

Exist interviews can rapidly devolve into something similar to a post-breakup inquisition. The disillusioned employee provides an autopsy of their disillusionment before a chastened ex-manager. Why not conduct ‘stay interviews’ to gauge and, if necessary, mend the attitudes of still-engaged employees?

Under this intensified pressure, is Twitter - the poster child of everyone's-invited, it's-fun-to-share, revenue-will-come-later, progressive web culture - becoming tetchy and litigious?

Developing technology is about so much more than mastering lines of code. The reality is, if you don’t have the right mix of technical talent, available capital and market understanding, you’re likely to come unstuck. But anyone with an open mind who is strong in just one of these areas can succeed.

To succeed in social media, you need to stop worrying and learn to love chaos, writes Annie Robinson.