Anthill Magazine
Entrepreneurs… it’s time to lighten up!
Ever wonder why people drift away from you at parties, just when you are explaining the most compelling element of your wonderful enterprise? Could it be that you take yourself a tad too seriously?
Women who mean business
The fastest growing group of Australian entrepreneurs are women. And it’s not hard to understand why!
LIESEL CAPPER
FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR, MOOTER
“My training in psychology helps...
The SME software explosion
After years of coping with business software designed for large corporations or the small corner store, fast growth small-tomedium- sized enterprises (SMEs) are finally...
Crumbs for our IT start-ups
Australia is awash with private equity. So why is so little of it finding its way into the hands of entrepreneurial start-ups in the...
Strategy: Building an adaptive enterprise
Last issue we examined the potential impact that accelerating change, cyclical volatility and emerging technologies can have on even the most well-researched business plan....
Export: The point man
As Invest Australia’s Senior Investment Commissioner in the United States, Bob Hunt is responsible for selling Australian investment opportunities to Americans. This influential insider...
Ahoy! Finance for growth
For ambitious businesses seeking investment dollars for expansion, the high seas of capital raising are as turbulent as they are vast. With so many...
From little things, big things grow
Like every great technological epoch, the nanotech revolution appears unstoppable.
The companies and societies that adapt best will thrive. Those that don’t will perish. Fortunately,...
Cash killer
The man who brought us e-finance
Belgians are famous for exporting delightful, frivolous products like beer and chocolate. However, leading Belgian entrepreneur Michel Akkermans is...
Hong kong still has it
Look at the fine print in any big foreign acquisitions of Chinese companies over the past two years and you will be struck by...
No parade for our returning IT expats
In the game of soccer, we sadly accept that for top players, furthering their careers means living overseas. When they come back, we welcome...
Strategy: Responding to stealthy market changes
It is a truism among seasoned entrepreneurs that the business you plan to launch is never the business you will be running in three...
Lend me your wings
Is there anywhere angels fear to tread? To be an angel investor, you need personal wealth, a sense of adventure, a pretty strong stomach,...
Marketing: What’s in a brand?
Negative or positive, everyone and every business stands for something. You can’t always control the opinions others form about your business, but you can...
Ant Bytes — AA09
“Genghis Khan started with a tribe of seventeen people, including his mother. He conquered everything. It seems to me you don’t need much in...
Nanotechnology: Brave goo world?
Everybody is talking about the world-changing potential of nanotechnology. We're fast discovering how to manipulate the building blocks of life. But in our rush...
Just blog off!
There is an old saying that puts a twist on an even older saying: Everyone has a novel in them… and for the vast...
Green Tech: innovations that won’t cost the earth
As Mother Earth groans under the weight of human progress, smart and efficient environmental technologies are gaining currency. Global warming, dwindling power supplies, toxic...
Going global: Get lost in Hong Kong
LOST IN HONG KONG
business | culture | travel
For many Australian entrepreneurs looking to do business in China, the most logical place to start is...
Fantastic Voyage: Robert Mehalso
Like the intrepid surgeons submarining through a human body in the movie Fantastic Voyage, American Dr Robert Mehalso is fascinated with the power of...