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Yaro Starak, 2009 Anthill 30under30 winner
With no employees or office space, Yaro Starak makes half a million dollars a year sitting in a café typing on his laptop. He represents a new breed of digital entrepreneurs, one of just a handful of people who make good money from professional blogging.
How to capture good ideas every time
With so much information flying around these days, it’s easy for good ideas to slip through the net. Roger La Salle highlights the importance of trawling deep and wide.
Why “Work smarter and not harder” is crap advice for entrepreneurs
When it comes to building a company from scratch, there’s no substitute for hard work, writes Sahil Merchant.
Sorting the wheat from the chaff: Australian business owners/leaders reveal their highest priorities
What are the most pressing issues facing Australian business owners and CEOs? To find out, The CEO Institute polled its members on a range of questions during the month of October. Here are the issues that business owners and leaders deemed most important:
Do ‘C-Grade’ students make the best CEOs?
We’re conditioned to think that people who excel at school are the ones that go on to excel in business. However, research indicates that a better guide is not the distinction between A and C students but between ‘fixed’ and ‘growth’ mindset individuals. Robert Wood explains.
Hey Presto! Watch me pull an ROI out of my hat!
In his first post, The cheque is in the mail, I'll respect you in the morning and your email system will generate a 125% ROI in ten months, Mr 1% Spend explored the idea that Return on Investment (ROI) is a concept manipulated by marketers in order to produce unmissable investment propositions. Here he expands on this topic with an example of this technique and how it will leave you, the customer, completely dissatisfied.
Is Australian prosperity too dependent on the rise of China?
According to the latest rankings released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, China is again our number one trading partner. But it raises the question: Do we have too many eggs in the China basket?
Sydney cafés seeking edge with extra bytes
Cafés and other physical retail businesses aren’t generally thought to be reliant on high-tech gadgets. But as Matthew da Silva discovers over one too many espressos, wherever hot milk signals profitability, a house laptop is never far away.
Diary of an entrepreneur raising capital: Enter the Dragon
Oodles.com founder Steve Sherlock has been documenting his efforts to raise a multimillion dollar Series A funding round by the end of January 2010. In the fifth instalment of this series, Sherlock has just returned from a trip to London where he gathered advice from several people who’ve been around the investment block a few times.
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The cheque is in the mail, I'll respect you in the morning and your...
ROI is a bunch of numbers invented by the marketing guys and then given substance by creating a scenario to support the desired end result. Most of us know this as spin or, more bluntly, bullshit.
The cheque is in the mail, I’ll respect you in the morning and your...
ROI is a bunch of numbers invented by the marketing guys and then given substance by creating a scenario to support the desired end result. Most of us know this as spin or, more bluntly, bullshit.
What Obama's Nobel Peace Prize and startup capital raising have in common
US President Obama receiving the Nobel Peace Prize based not on his accomplishments but to “encourage his vision” is not dissimilar to an entrepreneur trying to raise capital for the first time. Kim Wingerei explains.
What Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize and startup capital raising have in common
US President Obama receiving the Nobel Peace Prize based not on his accomplishments but to “encourage his vision” is not dissimilar to an entrepreneur trying to raise capital for the first time. Kim Wingerei explains.
Plan your cashflow this holiday season – or it could get very ugly
March is consistently the worst month of the year for company insolvencies. Why? Because businesses don’t plan for the inevitable drop in cashflow over the holiday period. Tim Lea offers some great advice on how to keep all the balls in the air while you and your customers are enjoying the summer break.
Negotiation and the ghost of Machiavelli
Whether you prefer to be feared or loved, new research suggests that the important thing at the negotiation table is that you don’t try to be nice.
Email marketing: ring a bell, get a food pellet
Email marketing can be tough. Your strategy and execution doesn't have to be that bad for it to shut down communication with customers. Here's how...
Australia’s emerging solar power pioneers face a cloudy future
It was the fastest car in its class in the 3,000-kilometre Global Green Challenge, but the engineering students who threw their time and talents into Sunswift IV to win their race to Adelaide face future uncertainty in our fragile renewable-energy sector.
Six great tips to help neutralise conflict in business and life
‘What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.’ Who hasn’t trotted out this old platitude to encourage themselves or someone else to tough it out, hang in there or generally put up and shut up? Well, guys – listen up, we were wrong!
The eight scams peddled by SEO consultants
In the earlier years of internet marketing, the most common question I heard about search engine optimisation was, "SEO? What's that?" Today I am more likely to hear, "SEO? We tried that and it didn't' work." The biggest challenge I now face with new SEO clients is cleaning up the mess left by their previous search engine optimisation company or individuals.
