entrepreneurs
The hard sells hear some home truths
It’s not an easy game standing up in front of a crowd of 120 people and pitch to a panel of hard-to-please angel investors, as 11 brave entrepreneurial souls did recently at the Melbourne Pitch Club event (held 25 June).
What’s wrong with the people you’re working with?
Most employees can’t articulate the business mission statement. They don’t know what the business is trying to achieve. They come in every day and work in their own little world. Oh yes, and whose fault is that?
At last, a Federal grant for IT
The Federal Government has just launched a new grant for third party service providers to help small and home based businesses with:
• ‘free or low cost’ IT skills development
• training and mentoring services
• improved web presence and e-business capability
Funding is available up to $500,000.
You have 90 seconds to pitch. GO!
If you were given the opportunity to stand up for 90 seconds and pitch your company to a panel of angel investors and a raucous, how would you fare?
The benefits of Australian VCs and US VCs
August is Venture Capital Month at Anthill and last week we launched a new series written by San Francisco-based Steve Anderson focusing on the capital raising cultures in Australia and the US. Today, Anderson discusses the comparative advantages and disadvantages of pursuing funding from Australian VCs or US VCs.
‘Throwing the book’ at the legal profession (Part 1)
Why is it that some of our society’s brightest minds have no idea how to translate their “no holds barred” skills from the court room to the public domain of marketing communication in a battle to win more clients?
Maybe they just don’t need the extra business, maybe they don’t know how, or maybe the truth is a combination of arrogance and ignorance steeped in tradition.
Delivery of specialist advice (CCI ‘Call for comment’)
Yesterday, as a continuation of our five part blog series calling on members of the private sector to join me in responding to the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research’s ‘Opportunity for Comment’, we asked readers to help us respond to the first part of the Department’s SmartForm, ‘Addressing the Commercialisation Gaps’. Today, we’re turning our attention to the second section, which we’re calling: ‘Delivery of specialist advice’.
Cool Company Awards, 2009 – Nominations Open!
It’s on again. Over coming weeks, we’ll be scouring the nation for Australia’s coolest companies.
It’s the first stage in Australia’s most innovative business awards program – The Nomination Phase.
Venture Capital by Design: Seminar
This first event in Anthill’s upcoming ‘Tunnel Talk’ series, held in conjunction with Design Victoria, is a two-part initiative developed for business builders, commercial innovators, aspiring entrepreneurs and creative professionals seeking to identify investment ready ideas and acquire growth capital. Are you seeking venture capital to accelerate your business growth? Do you need an angel [...]
What you can learn from the online porn industry
Most people giggle about the prevalence of porn on the internet, but the truth is that the porn industry has pioneered many of the technological innovations of our time. As an industry, these companies are good at what they do. Really good. And you should learn from them.
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