Anthill Magazine
What is Anthill?
It's a business magazine.
What’s it about?
It's about innovation, entrepreneurship and rapid business growth.
Until Anthill was launched in September 2003, the bulk of existing business titles in Australia were mainly concerned with issues of relevance to small/micro businesses or large corporations (one or the other).
Anthill was developed to bridge this gap, appealing to highly innovative and ambitious ‘fast’ growth businesses - SMEs with rapid growth potential and larger companies that realise the value of reinvention to stay ahead.
It does not focus on the traditional ‘nuts and bolts’ of business development (although this is a key element of editorial content), but instead it highlights the inspiring thrills, spills, trials and tribulations of business development and rapid commercial growth.
Business can and should be fun, right!
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At Anthill, we're constantly seeking enlightened, informed and unusual opinions to share with our readers. If you have some advice to offer, a radical...
A rap for the economist in us all… fo shizzle?
In this 'rap off' between two of the history's most influential economic minds, you'll find John Meynard Keynes throwing back Cosmopolitans in an effort to explain the value of stimulus spending. If only K Rudd had tried to articulate this important economic theory from the VIP section of a Manhattan 'gentlemen's club', he wouldn't have encountered nearly so much opposition.
Switched-on innovation converts pedestrian footsteps into energy
There's an interesting post over on Springwise about Pavegen slabs, an eco innovation by UK-based Pavegen Systems, which harvest the kinetic energy from pedestrian footsteps and converts it into electricity.
‘Bean-talk’ — a golden egg for small business
Running a small business inevitably means becoming a jack of all trades, most notably of which is ‘doing the books’. This in turn requires getting to grips with tricky accounting packages, an understanding of spreadsheets and becoming conversant with accounting jargon. The result is waving goodbye to your evenings, weekends and regular sleep.
Parody highlights the forgotten victims of modern media mayhem
There has been much coverage of the death of print media and the ever increasing switch to online journalism. However, as this Hungry Beast parody shows, there is a group of once-glorified citizens who have fallen victim to this passage of progress and the inevitable corporate cutbacks that follow in its wake.
Microsoft CEO asked to sign a student’s Macbook. Scribbles something almost funny.
When a plucky young Apple fanboy asked Ballmer to sign his Macbook during a visit to Trevecca Nazarene University in Nashville, Tennessee last week, the Microsoft Motivator-in-Chief played along, even scrawling a personal note along with his name.
IBISWorld reveals top Aussie Export industries for 2010
Market research company and business information provider IBISWorld has recently released its findings on Australia’s leading export industries for 2010 and their outlook for the next five years.
Sweet Alan Sugar mashup
Fortunately, Sugar's antics across five series of The Apprentice UK have provided great fodder for video mashup artists, who have sliced and diced the Amstrad founder to hilarious effect.
Freaky ‘Face Bank’ teaches children frugality and fear
Take this "Face Bank", which gobbles down each coin with ghoulish realism. The original model had eyes, but (perhaps moved by reports that it was inspiring night terrors in children) the makers updated it last year, removing the eyes and adding a nose, Easter Island style.
An Aussie tech star talks about taking on the world (and winning)
This instalment focuses on Dr John Papandriopoulos, who in 2007 as a 30-year-old University of Melbourne research fellow revolutionised broadband by developing an algorithm that speeds up ADSL connections by up to 100 times.
Solar-Gem wins 2010 Australian Innovation Shoot Out in California
NSW-based company Solar-Gem has been awarded the 2010 Australian Innovation Shoot Out, hosted overnight at Microsoft’s Mountain View, California campus.
“Keep your crises small.” Pixar’s Ed Catmull on why successful companies fail (and how...
Why do successful companies fail? Pixar's Ed Catmull addresses this key question through the prism of Pixar's growth from a small, unheard of digital animation company to the powerhouse Disney partner it is today.
Life after government stimulus: How will the global economies perform in 2010?
Dun & Bradstreet’s 2010 Economic & Risk Outlook Report, released last week, suggests that major emerging markets such as China and India continue to experience rapid economic expansion and both the US and Europe have pulled out of recession.
Would your business benefit from a government grant?
During this evening networking event, attendees will learn from successful Australian business builders who have "been there, done that" and employed grant assistance as an instrumental part of their ongoing commercial success.
Are you an Anthillian?
It's always been part of our mission to support and promote Australian entrepreneurs and innovators. We call these people 'Anthillians'. As a new addition to our recently relaunched website, we thought it might be fun to create a place dedicated to showcasing the achievements of such people. But what makes a person worthy of such recognition?
FlyingSolo.com.au
There are more than a million solo business owners in Australia. If you are one of them, check out FlyingSolo.com.au.
Beer O’Clock
Subscribe to Anthill's Friday afternoon email for the best (and worst) of Anthill TV.
An intriguing short film about numbers. All of them.
Numbers have been at the core of human understanding and evolution since before Pythagoras was geeking out in 6th Century BC Greece. This classy short film captures the essential role numbers play at all levels of life. It was named one of the 50 finalists in the 'Nikon festival: Your Day in 140 seconds' contest.
MINI Cooper’s mainstreet marketing campaign thinks INSIDE the box
The team behind this recent Mini Cooper campaign have taken outdoor advertising to a whole new level: They've taken it down a notch. In what could possibly be described as 3D, ground-level advertising (we're open to suggestions), Dutch agency Ubachswisbrun/JWT created this 'visual piece' to demonstrate the compact nature of the MINI. We're always impressed by memorable marketing.
IBISWorld identifies Australia’s top 10 growth industries to 2015
With Australia’s economy now well and truly on the rebound, the next five years are set to deliver strong growth in many sectors. And growth, of course, delivers job and investment opportunities.
