Funding & Finance

Sean Clark is the founder of Canada’s insanely successful online shoe retailer, Shoes.com. In five short years, Clark has propelled Shoes.com from a one-man start-up...

Being a member of Generation Y sure ain’t cheap. According to a new study by credit card big-wig American Express, Australians aged 18-24 have been priced out of owning assets that previous generations took as a given. Instead, they’re opting for the more wallet friendly renting, loaning and swapping.

“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!

New round led by Time Warner Investments backs 8i’s mission to enable the evolution of media and give people the best way to connect and express themselves with holograms

Ralph Simon is regarded as one of the founders of the modern mobile entertainment industry. At X|Media|Lab Global Media Ideas, Ralph will address various ways Australian Internet start-ups can find capital or smart support for their company and commercial ideas In an email interview, we asked him to share his views about the 'next' round of mobile technologies and what he thinks about Australian innovation.

The US remains the largest developed market in the world and a big influence on other global markets. It remains important for any company with global ambitions. The current economic environment does not do a lot to encourage Australian firms to focus on the US. However, innovative new models and technology have dramatically changed the cost of entering and developing the US market. Australian firms can now do much of the early market development work without having to hire a US-based team.

One of the most exciting things to happen to your startup is to receive a large investment. It is a big goal for most...

Australian taxi app and integrated mobile payment provider ingogo recently successfully closed a $12 million Series C funding round, ahead of its plans to...

Just prior to Christmas, Senator Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, announced that Monash V1sion had been awarded grant assistance from the Australian Research Council to develop the Bionic Eye.

'Going Public' means different things to different people. For the entrepreneur it's the capital injection to take the business to dizzy heights. To investors...

KPMG Australia and Advance have launched the 2016 elevate61 accelerator, opening up applications to Aussie tech start-ups ready to conquer the US market.

Brisbane’s Reload Media has produced an infographic comparing countries’ Gross Domestic Product (GDP), export revenue and GDP Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) to some of...

The Global Financial Crisis (a gift from our good friends, CEOs in the USA) is bringing many of us a lot of pain and there is plenty more to come. However, it also brings us a rare opportunity for change. Let's use this time of pain to make painful changes so that when we hit the upswing, we have a better system.

CloudPeeps, an invite-only marketplace that connects businesses with freelance social media and community professionals, co-founded by Melburnian and serial entrepreneur Kate Kendall, has secured...

The demand for flexible, last-minute childcare, as well as gig economy workers, is on the rise. Neighbourhood network, Juggle Street, has hit more than 93,000 registered users across Australia and New Zealand with 1000 plus new users signing up every week.

One of the first challenges of any new venture is deciding when the time is right to tell your family, your friends, investors, prospective customers and anyone who'll listen about your grand plan. There are generally two schools of thought. Hide or shout.

Touted as ‘Canva for enterprise,’ Outfit’s cloud technology digitises brand guidelines to automate and scale the production of marketing collateral, ensuring it is always on brand

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...

If there is one word that scares entrepreneurs and businesspeople alike, it's the "B" word - bankruptcy. For the individual concerned, it means the loss...

Cash is king... and no one except Elvis is likely to disagree. So why don't we ever have enough and how can we fix cashflow problems without selling off part of our company?