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The power of people management
It’s impossible to build a good company without knowing how to attract and secure top talent. But knowing how to keep them…. now there’s a recipe for greatness. Leaders have, by and large, always recognised the value of their team. However, it is only now that momentum is gathering for greater recognition of the importance [...]
Red hot chile peppers the globe with FTAs
Chile, the “jaguar” economy of South America, holds a newly-minted Free Trade Agreement with Australia. The Airport Economist, Tim Harcourt, explains why this is good news on both sides of the South Pacific Ocean.
Selling our IP to the Chinese
An Aussie swimming coach sells training secrets to the Chinese and it hits the front pages of the tabloids. Fair enough. But our precious intellectual property has been flowing the wrong way for generations. Rowan Gilmore contemplates a troubling epidemic. The Olympics may be a distant memory, but we still keep our favourite recollections. One [...]
What I have learnt (the hard way): Domenic Carosa – Podcast
To listen to Paul Ryan’s podcast interview with Domenic Carosa, “What I’ve Learnt the Hard Way”
What I have learnt (the hard way) – Domenic Carosa
Domenic Carosa founded destra Corporation (then called Sprint) with his sister Anna in 1993. By 1998, destra ran a number of the leading entertainment websites in Australia. In 2000, the company reverse-listed on the ASX a matter of hours before the tech crash on Wall Street. After diversifying into web hosting to survive the dot-com recession, Carosa took the company back to its digital media roots in 2005 and built it into a $100m company with 300 staff nationally. Earlier this year, Carosa became a casualty of the Opes Prime collapse, which resulted in him losing his equity in destra and his departure from the company he built and loved.
The morning after
Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield is a free agent again. After creating the world’s premier online photo-sharing community, selling it to Yahoo and spending three years working inside the walls of that now troubled internet giant, he’s out and ready for something new. Paul Ryan sat down with him in Melbourne at the recent X|Media|Lab conference.
SideTaker.com
In the age of YouTube, Facebook and Oprah, it should come as no surprise that people like to share their personal lives with the whole world. What is astonishing is the extent to which some people entrust the ultra-personal detritus of their lives to the collective wisdom of the World Wide Mob. A case in [...]
Aussie startup index
The good folks over at TechNation Australia (TNA) have begun compiling a monthly Aussie Startup Index, which ranks the highest trafficked Australian startup websites. The final figures are arrived at by averaging each site’s global Alexa and Compete rankings – only sites with a ranking of less than one million are listed (lower is better). [...]
Wanna meet and interview a big name entrepreneur?
Every edition of Anthill Magazine invariably features an interview (or two) with a big name Australian entrepreneur or thought leader from a country abroad. For this week’s instalment in our ongoing Magazine 2.0 Experiment, we’d like you, dear reader, to name an entrepreneur that you personally would like to interview and we’ll do our best [...]
In the spirit of Magazine 2.0…
Sadly, I’m stuck chasing deadlines this week. As such, I’ve not had the opportunity to scout the Internet and deliver to you, our expectant readers, my regular enewsletter post: Website of the Week. However, in the spirit of Anthill’s ongoing Magazine 2.0 Experiment, I thought that perhaps you could help me out? This is your [...]
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