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This Aussie on-demand film service has launched a crowdsourced equity funding raise

The cinema-on-demand chain, Australia’s Demand.film, is giving its 100,000 strong community an opportunity to share in the company’s success when...

Snooper raises AUD$1 million to accelerate crowdsourcing among brands and retailers

Snooper, the crowdsourcing platform disrupting how brands and retailers collect data recently announced a $1 million AUD investment led by Microequities Venture Capital Fund to further accelerate growth in Australia.

DesignCrowd has raised $6 million in a Series B funding round led by a...

Design crowdsourcing platform DesignCrowd recently announced that it has closed a new $6 million Series B capital raising. The round has been led by new...

A crowdsourcing company raised $363,000 pre-IPO funding through crowdfunding. All hail the crowd!

Australian equity-based crowdfunding platform, VentureCrowd recently raised $363,000 in a pre-IPO funding round for the popular crowdsourcing question–and–answer micro job network, Crowd Mobile. Has the...

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...

DesignCrowd’s Alec Lynch is the 2014 Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year in the Eastern...

Alec Lynch, the founder and CEO of DesignCrowd, was recently named Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year in the Eastern Region by Ernst & Young. While working as a...

Is this crowd sourcing market research tool going to change how we research what...

Launched in Melbourne last December, Australia’s first crowd-sourced brand research platform AnswerCrowd has taken crowd sourcing to the next level by connecting people with...

Yes, crowdsourcing can do wonders for your business, but do you understand the risks...

Changes in technology, a global economy and new business paradigms that encourage open innovation and community collaboration are seeing us move away from a...

Business cards have been making deals happen for over a century and despite what...

Business cards have been around since the 1800s. Now in this digital age of ours, one would imagine that something this old is on its...

Nine of the world’s top 10 brands are crowdsourcing. So umm… what are you...

At Interbrand, there are 3 factors considered in assessing brand value. The first is the brand’s financial performance. The second is its influence on...

So you think you are creative? Then put your brain where your mouth is!...

Are you naturally creative? Well, now how would you like to win $5,000 cash?

Crowdsourcing is working for Facebook design, can it work for your business, too?

The crowd is changing social media design as much as its changing anything – well, everything else, really. The great thing that many of businesses are actively learning that crowdsourcing is not just good for basic services, it's good for ideas and creativity.

We’re creating a new, very Anthillian event series for 2013. Help us choose the...

To kick start 2013, we're creating a new event for business builders. It's a cooking class. That's right. We're calling it our Master Business Bake Up series. At every event, a business leader will teach a business 'recipe' that that he or she will ‘cook’ on the day, in under 90 minutes. Can you help us choose a logo?

AppVillage: A reminder of our appy future, and its democratisation

AppVillage will democratise app development, making a potential app creator of you and me. It will take an idea from anybody, evaluate it and then, if found to possess commercial appeal, create the “process and management required to take these concepts from ideation to reality.” Of course, that includes marketing the app.

Cowards & Giants: a crazy idea that may change how we make movies [VIDEO]

Cowards & Giants - it sounds like just another week in Australian talkback radio. But, it's not. It's an idea for a story for children, developed by two mates, Mat and Tom. The idea is to use the power of the internet to create a movie.

Crowdsourcing firm lets 5,000 take a bite of the Big Apple

More than 5,000 entrants have submitted designs to the latest DesignCrowd contest. Using the innovative Sydney-based DesignCrowd crowdsourcing service, TimesSquare.com, has offered up a $10,000 prize for anyone who can provide a new logo. Check out the current logo, it really needs to be changed!

Want to become an outsourcing extremist? Learn how to replace yourself using geo-arbitrage.

With the economy in its current state and the US dollar near parity, geo-arbitrage opportunities abound. Combine that with the power of cloud based technologies and tools, like DropBox, ScreenSteps, Dictamous and Screenflow, and it has suddenly become far easier than any time in history to employ and manage skilled staff and freelancers from all corners of the globe.

It’s back! How To Build a Global Empire in your Underpants… Reloaded. [WEBINAR]

There's not enough time in the day to get all the niggling, annoying, mundane tasks done. Plus, you want to build your brand. You know that it's essential to work 'on' your business and not just 'in' it. But where can you find the time? If this sounds familiar, don't fret. You are not alone! It's time to outsource, offshore, crowdsource and maybe even make yourself redundant!

99designs launches fancy new Australian site, as DesignCrowd triples revenue

99designs, the world’s largest design marketplace, has gone and got itself a localised website. The announcement comes snapping at the heels of its whopping $35 million first-round capital investment from Accel Partners – the fellas what invested in Facebook, Dropbox and Etsy -- and the launch of local rival DesignCrowd.

How to blow up the cubicle culture and start gamestorming your creativity

Dave Gray, co-author of "Gamestorming," the 2010 book about collaboration for innovators, says the cubicle layout of your average business office is great for efficiency, but the worst possible design for creativity. In this video, Gray lays out the basics of gamestorming. It's worth a look for anyone hoping to spawn the Next Big Thing.
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New Zealand’s Xero eyes US IPO, further disruption as subscribers increase...

Xero recently held its annual meeting in Wellington, during which the company revealed some interesting details about its future. As has been widely suspected, the...

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