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Never Ready [CARTOON]

Some things will never be ready. Like your startup. It's almost impossible to have a perfect product at launch, and if you do, chances...

Fake it til you make it: 10 ways to make your business appear bigger...

Being perceived as professional by outsiders is a common challenge for small businesses. Many startups reach a stage where meeting clients in cafes no longer cuts it. Here are 10 simple ways that your company can make itself look bigger it is.

iPhone app review: Instapaper

Today we welcome Michelle Matthews, of Deck of Secrets fame, as our new iPhone app reviewer. She is a self-confessed iPhone junkie, with well over 250 apps on her iPhone, so she’s well qualified to give you the inside running. First up: the productivity app, Instapaper.

Target's 'rip-off' advertisement meets the original

Unless you've been living with your head under a doona over the last month and a half, you will have seen one of Target's many advertisements featuring kids and other happy customers swimming through their bed-linen, apparently in the throes of some pretty exciting dream-action.

Is this the best use of Twitter yet? ASCII Art takes on a whole...

Are you old enough to remember the hilarity of ASCII art in plain text chat services? You know, using just the characters on your keyboard to create a funny, or rude (gasp!), image within the chat stream? Well, add ASCII art to a Twitter stream and some magic happens.

Pushing an investor for a fast investment decision may be the worst mistake you...

Many of our young entrepreneurs in Australia glean their understanding of business, market and investment from vicarious or direct experience of Silicon Valley or Silicon Alley. However, Australia is not the USA. Our culture, business environment, market structure and consumer behaviour are all quite different. Assuredly there are similarities but, in thirty years of doing business in all these markets and many others, I have learned that it is the differences rather than the similarities which underpin the biggest opportunities.

Sammartino’s Creative Espresso – Ways to change your life

We've held on to this latest manic instalment of Steve Sammartino's Creative Espresso series since he submitted it for inclusion in the July print edition, which didn't eventuate. Here it is, in all its super-charged, creative glory.

Pimp your bike with LED wheel lights

The last few years have seen a dramatic increase in bicycle sales for use as a greener mode of transport, for fitness and also for pleasure.

Aussie invention that super seals storm damaged roofs secures $450,000 funding

Aussie invention, Stormseal – super seals buildings & roofs damaged by storms or open during construction – will aid extreme weather victims, insurers, builders

Aussie dining rewards app Liven announces world’s first integration with ApplePay

With the digital wallet movement firmly in full swing, Australia’s leading dining rewards app Liven has recently announced its in-store invisible payments integration with ApplePay.

Want more text messages? Your fridge, washer and vacuum can help with that [VIDEO]

LG has a vision of the near future. It's one where you can text your fridge to ask if it's got beer. See. Now I...

Global hacking is no rogue play. Think ‘digital quartermaster’ and ‘cyber arms dealers’

Is there a global arms merchant serving smaller armies of online cyberterrorists? An American company that analysed hacking incidents over a period of several years believes it may have zeroed in on one such “cyberarms dealer” that supplies a “myriad of unrelated global attackers” with hacking tools. FireEye suggests what it has uncovered might be part of a trend it dubs the “industrialisation of hacking.”

Primary school advertising prodigy wins Labor’s endorsement [VIDEO]

Yesterday, the Australian Labor Party endorsed a "special election message" from Harrie, aged 11 years old. According to the Labor Party's description on YouTube: "Harrie sent this through to us and we thought it was worth sharing with everyone. Thanks Harrie." Real? Fake? Ingenious? Or cringe-worthy? That's for you to decide.

24-hour podcast people

It’s tough to change the world from inside a middle-management corporate cubicle. So Cameron Reilly dropped out and tuned in, creating the world’s first podcast network. Having turned down venture funding, the only thing that Reilly wants to lend is your ears.

DMG acquires 20% of Hippo.com.au

The rise and rise of 24-year-old Melbourne-based entrepreneur James Masini continues unabated. The founder of youth-focussed jobs website Hippo.com.au informed Anthill yesterday afternoon that DMG,...

Want to sell your business or raise capital? First, do you have a ‘deal...

Thinking about selling your company, buying a competitor, or maybe raising capital? According to Kenneth H. Marks, you’ll need a deal team with the right mix of talent and experiences to get the best value and to assure the transaction happens.

The Top 5 Most Insanely Dumb Mistakes made by Rookie and Seasoned LinkedIn Users,...

LinkedIn is a professional and commercial platform. What you do on LinkedIn matters: it really matters, and if you’re not careful, your actions can backfire and tarnish your brand and your integrity. We're going to throw out a wild guess and say that you don’t want to get burned by your mistakes. Fair enough. This FREE REPORT from David Hobson has the five most common LinkedIn mistakes and what you can do to avoid them.

Sell some equity in yourself… literally (I'll take $300,000 for 3 percent of all...

Three social entrepreneurs have created an online marketplace to offer up equity in their life's earnings in exchange for an unrestricted upfront cash investment. Under their structure, investors do not acquire a portion of the entrepreneur's venture; neither do they have any official say in how the investee uses the money. They simply receive a proportion of the entrepreneurs taxable personal income over the term of the investment; their life.

Diary of an entrepreneur raising capital: Love and money

Oodles.com founder Steve Sherlock has set himself the goal of raising a multimillion dollar Series A funding round by the end of January 2010. He plans to document his trials and tribulations and seek feedback from readers on AnthillOnline.com. This is his first post in the series.

KFit claims the ANZ fitness sharing crown after absorbing local competitors Classhopper and Sweatpass

Following the merge with local competitors, Classhopper and SweatPass, KFit has continued to cement its title as the leader of ANZ's fitness sharing economy
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5 Ways to get more out of your coffee shop meetings...

Far too much time is wasted in coffee shop meetings. More often than not, the conversation falls off topic, interruptions cause distractions and, before you know it, the meeting is over and you’ve achieved nothing. That’s what Antony Gaddie calls a Coffee and Doughnut meeting. You get a coffee and… zero. He’s the founder of Green Ant Marketing and he shared with us (over coffee) five things that you can do to help you make the most of your coffee shop meetings.

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New Zealand’s Xero eyes US IPO, further disruption as subscribers increase...

Xero recently held its annual meeting in Wellington, during which the company revealed some interesting details about its future. As has been widely suspected, the...

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