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QUT Creative Enterprise Australia launches Australia’s first creative tech accelerator
CEA’s Collider Accelerator is the latest program to be launched with support from Advance Queensland, which is investing more than $400-million to position Queensland as a hub of innovation and growth.
The Oatmeal charity drive raises $900k: The power of the internet and science geeks
I've said it before, earlier this week in fact, and I'll say it again. Science is the new sexy.
How sexy?
In less than 20 hours,...
Editors’ Choice: Jessie Larcombe, 2012 Anthill 30under30 Honourable Mention
Jessie Larcombe says her brand's appeal relies on the five senses. Certainly, hearing is paramount, because Jesselle PR keeps the Brisbane fashion community in the hum of media buzz.
Do you have an early stage startup? Apply now for AngelCube Startup Accelerator!
AngelCube Startup Accelerator wants to help your startup company get on its feet. Anthill introduced AngelCube and its mission a couple of weeks ago. Now, applications to join the program are open, and startup companies are invited to apply before 30 August 2011.
Click Frenzy: Was it really a bomb? Or just a sympton of Australia’s fear...
The Australian culture is unforgiving to start-ups, unless it all goes ‘perfectly’. What I love about the approach from Click Frenzy is its refusal to accept the proposition that the event was a failure. In fact, the company was a victim of its own success - there were too many customers.
Applications are now open for the 2012 30under30 awards!
30under30 is an Anthill initiative that was launched in early 2008 to encourage and promote entrepreneurship among young Australians.
The program provides...
How to export like an expert
To maximise your export opportunity and increase your chances of success, it's important to focus your mind on what you want to achieve. That way, you'll have a clear vision to plan for and work towards.
So, where to begin? Here are three steps to help you export like an expert.
Undaunted: what this ginger cat can teach every entrepreneur [VIDEO]
Yes, it's tenuous link video time again.
Perhaps it says a lot about how my brain works but, when I see videos like this, I...
Are you seeking capital? August is ‘Venture Capital Month’ at Anthill!
So you have the commitment, the creativity, the cojones. But do you have the capital!
This August, we've decided to explore the many facets of capital raising - from angel investment and grants to venture capital and private equity. For want of a better name, we're calling this exercise Anthill's VC Month.
Canva just raised another USD 3.6 million a year after its launch
Before Canva, design-idiots were just that, design-idiots. But this Australian start-up has since revolutionized the world of design and opened the doors of beautiful...
From India to Melbourne: the rise and rise of the digital media tyro, Sagar...
So confident is Xugar in its ability to deliver the digital goods it created something during the COVID-19 crisis called the 'Trust Package' which guarantees results or the client won't be charged.
Muso raises $1.5 million in seed funding round to grow Australia’s live music scene
Muso was founded in 2018 by co-founders, Jeremiah Siemianow, Brandon Crimmins and Alan Jin to help up-and-coming local musicians find and book live gigs, while enabling venues to uncover and access new talent.
Rethinking entrepreneurship for the next decade
The world is currently eyeball-deep in a period of technological disruption that is unparalleled in human history. This is creating a smorgasbord of opportunities for those entrepreneurs who have the balls to innovate, writes Steve Anderson.
Looking for ways to improve your efficiency? Try these tools [PODCAST]
PreneurCast is a marketing + business podcast. Each week, author and marketer Pete Williams and digital media producer Dom Goucher discuss entrepreneurship, business, internet...
A tech start-up that started in a kitchen scooped top honours at the 2016...
A company that started as a two-man shop in a Sydney kitchen and now stands as one of Australia’s largest mobile technology firms has taken top honours at the 2016 Sydney City Regional Business Awards.
Australian crowdsourcing start-up DesignCrowd has hit $20 million in sales and is expanding to...
Sydney-based crowdsourcing marketplace DesignCrowd recently hit a remarkable milestone of $20 million worth of payments to its designers.
Now the most astonishing bit is that...
With second acquisition, 99designs breaks into a BRIC market
99designs, one of the best examples of the recent breed of Australian startups that are birthed with a global vision, has already created the...
Is this the world’s best social media expert? You be the judge of that...
Vooza, my favourite parody of a startup, have done it again.
This time, the business is recruiting a social media expert.
And, by crikey, the...
This is your chance to fill the gaps in the Australian startup eco-system
Startups are a hazardous journey and, most early stage ventures end in some form of failure.
With such high levels of uncertainty surrounding the development...
Telstra Business Awards 2010
The Telstra Business Award (established in 1992) recognizes the success of small and medium size business in Australia and recognizes the contribution that small and medium businesses make to the economy of Australia. The Telstra award program also seeks to assist small and medium sized business owners in developing success for their enterprise.