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Soon after the NSW State Government announced the re-design of their state logo, the public decided that they could do a better job! After the Federal Government threw away $8 Million on creating the now defunct Grocery Choice website to monitor supermarket prices, a group of consumers set up @price_check - a Twitter-based crowdsourcing experiment. These days, if you don’t engage your customers, they’ll mobilise against you.

When asked to create a 30under30 award category that would best suit him, 22-year-old Queenslander David Ball suggested the "Robin Hood Award (for taking some money away from the rich guys and giving it back to the poor guys)".

If you haven’t hit up your family, friends and fools to investment in your new venture, angel investors have every right to be sceptical. Sahil Merchant has a bunch of ruthless angles crowded on his shoulders, and he thinks it’s a damn fine thing.

If you want some start-up "radvice", regular Anthill blogger, Rentoid founder and all-round social media maven Steve Sammartino is inviting you to join him...

Ross Hill doesn't turn 30 for another eight years, but he's crammed more entrepreneurial activity into his 22 years than many people twice his age.

Ryan Junee is an impressive young Aussie working YouTube Product Manager at Google HQ in Silicon Valley. Twelve months ago Google bought Omnisio, the company Junee co-founded, for US$15 million in cash. In this interview, part of the Mitchell Lake's Australian entrepreneur interview series, Junee discusses startups, y combinator, the future of the web, and what it's like to live and party in San Francisco.

This undeniably humorous (and slightly scary) marketing expression has been fondly quoted for decades. In fact, I heard it re-quoted again last month, at...

This undeniably humorous (and slightly scary) marketing expression has been fondly quoted for decades. In fact, I heard it re-quoted again last month, at...

Regus gives you the flexibility to work where, when and how you want. As the word’s leading provider of workplace solutions we can help you...

I spent a lot of time at the start of my business trying to conform to what I thought I had to be to succeed, with limited success. I found that when I let go, started uncovering my tattoos at presentations and generally being myself, “all of a sudden” my business exploded. But where do you draw the line?

Customers want more than your widgets or whatever your core offering happens to be. They want an experience. They want to be wowed. They want to join your tribe. If you don’t approach them on these terms, there are countless rival ‘tribes’ that will, argues Kevin Garber.

The United States is relentless in making its vast markets seem enticingly available, yet every mistake when doing business there can be costly and unforgiving. Here are the top 13 things you “must do” prior to taking the plunge and doing business in the US.

We all know what an enormously useful mass-market medium Twitter can be, but celebrities know it better than anyone. However, it would appear that some, like David Letterman, just don't get it. Perhaps it's an age thing?

We all know what an enormously useful mass-market medium Twitter can be, but celebrities know it better than anyone. However, it would appear that some, like David Letterman, just don't get it. Perhaps it's an age thing?

Economics is one of the more complex academic subjects. So imagine trying to summarise the past 350 years of it into one 50 minute lecture.

Domenic Carosa, a former BRW Young Rich List Member, is running a workshop designed to teach attendees how to accelerate business growth through the...

Marita Cheng is still at university (studying a mechatronics engineering and computer science double-degree), but she already owns and runs two businesses.

At 19 years of age, Nick Ferguson is our youngest 30under30 winner for 2009. He is owner and founder of Sustain Fitness, a fitness advisory and resource development company he launched in 2007 while still in Year 12. During that year, Ferguson was hospitalised with a severe illness. He used the time to channel his drive and commitment into entrepreneurial ways.

Lernert Engelberts and Sander Plug, the producers and stars of this clip, declare: "Commit and dedicate yourself to even the most stupid ideas that come to mind."

Green is über cool. If you want to get the key influencers and mavens of society into your product, then it better do the world some good. Being shiny isn’t enough these days. It’s got to be circular, real and authentic.