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Risk, unlearning and de-gearing
If you’re reading Anthill and not starting or running a business, maybe you ought to stop for a second and ask yourself why?
You’re obviously...
Getting priorities right
Mastering time-management and priority-setting processes are fundamental to achieving personal and business productivity. These skills are even more crucial in start-up environments, where management...
Being green (and credible)
Green laundry detergent, green broadband, green electricity, green cars, green cleaning products, green flights, the list goes on...
With increased awareness about climate change (particularly...
The pipe and the straw
High definition set top boxes, mobile TV, digital radio – all contenders for the future of media, right? Well, not exactly. It can be...
The tools to launch a new business
Found a gap in the market for a new product or service? Got a great idea for a business venture? The following guide provides...
Cleantech bull-ants
There can be no more important mission for today’s innovators than saving the planet. In Australia, the cleantech industry recently rose to the challenge...
Clean is the new green
Not so long ago, cleantech was an indulgence reserved for tech geeks, fringe-dwelling eco-activists and latte liberals crusading against their own existential guilt. Today,...
Adrian Giles, co-founder, Hitwise
Spotting a niche for web traffic measurement, Adrian Giles co-founded Hitwise in 1997 and took it from a $5k start-up to $250 million trade...
What do we want? FREE INTERNET. When do we want it? NOW!
There are certain things I must have in a hotel room.
Apart from a comfortable bed, room service that delivers a decent hamburger, a window...
Celebrity patents
The thing about celebrities is, they love to celebrate. Themselves.
When you consider that possession of a particular talent, however tenuous, can deliver fame and...
The truth about offsetting
I was at a friend’s 40th the other night and got into one of those stupid arguments that you sometimes get into with other...
Elevator Pitch: Indigo Magazine
A magazine for developing minds
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CrackBerry, with benefits
While entrepreneurs typically relish a 24/7 relationship with their labour of love, many professionals have been dismayed by...
Making sustainability stick
Australian researchers and entrepreneurs have no shortage of ideas when it comes to the emerging cleantech industry. But, as Rowan Gilmore explains, these innovations...
A clarion call for digital media entrepreneurs
Feel like you’re getting short changed by your media options? Cameron Reilly thinks it’s time you stepped up. After all, as Henry David Thoreau said, “The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”
Covet thy neighbour’s domain
Greed and envy may be two of the seven deadly sins, but online, sinners are grinners. Robelen Bajar joins the digital gold rush.
I’m a...
Australian small business is bullish in the China Shop
For years, Australian entrepreneurs dreamed of riding the Chinese dragon. Now, at last, Aussie SMEs are too busy wheeling and dealing in China to...
Searching for the next Nicole, Hugh, Russell or Naomi
Australia’s presence in Hollywood is world-famous. Now, a window has opened for Aussie tech companies to stage a similar assault on the uS advertising and media industry. But, as Brad Howarth argues, time is of the essence.
Greg Wilkinson – founder, Reckon Software
Rhodesian born Greg Wilkinson began adult life as a global wanderer. He eventually settled in Sydney and founded a small software publishing company called...
The business of entertainment
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The digitisation of the entertainment industry is disrupting life for existing businesses but it is opening up a myriad of opportunities for...