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Hey, you runners out there (or would-be or should-be runners) -- if you're looking for motivation, perhaps what you need is a big helping of zombie apocalypse. Saving your hide while piling up the distance is one facet of Zombies, Run! -- a smartphone game app that has attracted a horde of attention on Kickstarter.

Last week, we announced that Anthill had partnered with global ballooning and an organisation called Qumpit to host a pitching event that actually needs your hot air. We're giving eight (8) Anthillians a pitching opportunity like no other... access to a prominent investor/entrepreneur... in a hot-air balloon! It's networking thousands of feet in the air, floating over the Yarra Valley. So, what is Qumpit?

We had a few minutes to kill here at the 'Hill and chose to waste it with some genealogical research. Expecting to find nothing of import, we were instead floored by the discovery is a distant yet ingenious cousin. Enjoy this rare video record of their fortitude.

Here at Stately Anthill Manor, we cast far and wide for inspirational words that will lift you from that cash-poor, idea-bereft funk and propel you once again on your entrepreneurial path. And as this clip of Johnny "The Greek Mystique" Sarhanis proves, we also have no shame.

“If you think the sky is the limit, you have a limited imagination.” So say our friends at Global Ballooning. It's not hard to imagine, then, why they are sponsoring Anthill's latest 'uplifting' initiative to support entrepreneurship in Australia, giving eight (8) entrepreneurs exclusive access to a prominent investor/entrepreneur... in a hot-air balloon!

Here's a military blow-'em-up video game with a couple of intriguing talking points. One, it's being developed completely with Australian talent. Two, it puts the player in the role of a journalist who films the carnage and edits the footage into a report -- all while struggling to stay alive.

Okay, it's been a quiet week. We haven't been overwhelmed with commercially creative, entrepreneurial, inspiring, insightful video clips from the interwebs (the usual stuff...

The inaugural Cool Company Awards were launched in February 2006 as a way for Anthill Magazine to publicly acknowledge and celebrate Australian organisations that are doing things differently to bring about positive change.

A tweet or a YouTube video can be perceived as a bully pulpit in which the poster has full control of the message because there's no one around to pose a question such as, "Huh?" As our video Exhibit A, we offer Madonna and her recent hydrangea kerfuffle.

The concept of collaborative consumption takes a very, very old idea in economics and gives it a new shine in our era of electronic social networking. It's all about sharing, trading or renting products or services as opposed to owning them. Listen as consultant Rachel Botsman describes it.

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.

When Steve Jobs stepped aside in August as CEO of Apple, one pundit said the computing pioneer had the greatest second act in business history. But we wonder if Jobs sees it that way. But based on what we hear in this 2005 commencement address for Stanford University, Jobs' life has been one continuous push.

It’s not for nothing that goCatch last month won the $50,000 top prize at Tech23, a program sponsored in part by the New South Wales government and run by Slattery IT Consulting. Its iPhone app – which allows passengers to directly find and hire cabs in their vicinity – has been disruptive of the market. The app, launched in June, enables a cabbie to become a free agent, posing an evident threat to cabbie networks. The Taxi Council of Queensland has hit back, saying goCatch passengers could be compromising on their safety, and perhaps service as well, by hiring cabbies directly.

What is it that's so appealing about science and auto-tune mashups? Could it be the inherent fashion-sensibilities of the global science community? (Deep down, you just know that skivvies and elbow patches are cool.) Could it be the eyeball popping special-effects that seem to accompany most lessons on matters of quantum? (Science lessons and acid-house, rave parties might actually have more in common than you think.) Or could it be the melodic appeal of words like sub-atomic?

To capitalise on the frighteningly connected nature of the world's largest social network (news source, marketplace, whatever), Coca-Cola Israel has launched, in what seems to have become a trend, another experiential event integrated with Facebook. Combining the vanity of youth with the viral nature of Facebook has proved a marketing hit for the global soft-drinks behemoth. Who'da thunk it!

Our guess is there’s a whole lot of ‘Booyah!’ heard in the vicinity of Tapit Media’s Sydney offices right about now. The start-up, which specialises in new Near Field Communication (NFC), recently closed its seed funding round a diddy 22 days after pitching to Sydney Angels. So what is it about Tapit that makes investors part with their moola at breakneck speed?

Strap in, fellow entrepreneurs. It's time to experience that harrowing, energizing thrill of trying to turn an idea into a business. Hope you didn't enjoy a heavy lunch. Surely there's a parallel between the entrepreneurial experience and going upside-down and inside-out? Sound familiar to anyone? Urp.

Despite his success, Ruslan Kogan is perhaps best known for the various ways he has intentionally (and sometimes accidentally) courted controversy. Let's face it, Ruslan Kogan is a master at maintaining a high profile, by being both brutally frank and highly entertaining. What's your take? Is Ruslan Kogan a marketing mastermind or precocious punk?

The hip-hop hamsters who star in Kia's boxy but oh-so-fresh Soul are back. This time, they go all Energizer Bunny on us, invading a commercial for a military science fiction computer game. It's a smart ad campaign, adding gaming to the music of the young target demographic.

WeTeachMe is the brainchild of a diverse fivesome – Kym Huynh, Demi Markogiannaki, Martin Kemka, Rowan McSweeney and Cheng Zhu, two of whom are immigrants. Hyunh is a serial entrepreneur, Markogiannai, a Greek, is crazy about the arts; Kemka has an insatiable curiosity about the world; McSweeney, of Irish heritage, is the marketer with a love for Turkish delights; and Cheng is the group’s code Ninja. Together, they want to change the world we learn, and share knowledge -- kind of like the Spice Girls but with better shoes.