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Crowdfunding? Now it’s Pozible to manage your own campaign
You can have your cake and eat it, too. That is as far as crowdfunding is concerned, thanks to Pozible’s idea to let fund-raisers shape their own campaign on their own choice set of websites, instead of being tied to the crowdfunding platform’s single website.
How to win a startup weekend: Zaarly pitch [VIDEO]
Zaarly nailed its pitch at the L.A. Startup Weekend at the start of 2011. It won the weekends proceedings. But, more than that, within three weeks it had raised $1 million in funding from seasoned investors, including Ashton Kutcher. Here's a video of the winning pitch.
This Aussie sustainable share matching app has announced its first retail crowdfunding raise with...
Goodments, an investment app that matches people to shares and funds based on their environmental, social and ethical values recently announced its...
Aircrafts three generations beyond will save 70% fuel and fly at subsonic speed
A NASA aircraft design competition -- known as “N+3” to denote three generations beyond today’s commercial fleet -- has produced the blueprint of an aircraft that will save 70% fuel, produce less noise and less pollution while travelling at subsonic speed.
This tech company that is backed by Shark Tank’s Steve Baxter is listing on...
OtherLevels, an Aussie-founded mobile marketing tech firm recently confirmed their listing on the ASX and released their prospectus to investors.
OtherLevels was launched in Brisbane...
Sometimes we need to be heard. But, sometimes we also need to hear what...
I laughed at this way more than I should have.
Hands up if you've ever said "Don't try to fix things. I just need you...
Want to attract (and keep) investors? Good communication is vital.
In this fourth article on capital raising corporate advisor Dr Mark Rainbird explains how the way you communicate can make or break an offer—regardless of how good it is.
Two-sided marketplace ShareRing closes $3.8m capital raise, launches $62m token generation event
A two-sided marketplace within the $100B+ sharing economy ShareRing has announced it has closed a AU$3.8 million capital raise. The seed funding round comes as ShareRing launches its Token Generation Event with an aim to issue four billion tokens, with a hard cap of USD$48 million (AU$62 million), through the sale of its utility token ShareToken (SHR).
"A guide to raising angel and venture capital finance (ebook)"
This eBook by celebrated Australian entrepreneur and lecturer Dr Tom McKaskill was developed as entrepreneur’s guide to securing venture finance.
Ant Bytes — AA17
If you've ever received an invitation to a wedding being held interstate or overseas, you'll know that sharing the love can be expensive and time consuming. But with technology doing more and more of our leg work these days, more palatable options were bound to emerge.
Kym Huynh, 2011 Anthill 30under30 Honourable Mention
Kym Huynh believes firmly in the idea of the Renaissance Man. He's a lawyer and a professional singer. He hosts three podcasts and manages several more. He's also behind a chain of humourous photo blogs. Of course, that's when he isn't promoting his startup ventures. For all of his accomplishments, he's taken to knocking himself: "I lead goofily and still appear to be legit."
HR tech startup Sourcr raises $310k from Sydney Angels to raise the bar in recruitment
Sourcr’s platform leverages AI, data and extensive networks to help companies hire right, hire fast and hire confidently and crucially, retains the human relationship element.
Meet atmail, Anthill 2014 Cool Company Award WINNER [Global Growth]
Atmail is the outlaw of email providers. They are the rebels with real smarts. Atmail is making customers and other stakeholders their accomplices to transform the way they are used to see email. Atmail technology can be adapted and customised to meet the customers business' requirements. Atmail has more than 4,500 customers, including 7 of the 10 biggest ISPs in Australia
Don’t underestimate how hard it will be [CARTOON]
Every entrepreneur knows that starting something new and making it work isn’t easy.
But, I think we all underestimate just how hard it will be....
Australian startup Lingmo challenges global players with new voice message translation software, on a...
Emerging Australian start-up, Lingmo recently launched Talk2You, a voice messaging translation service available exclusively on their new smartwatch, Time2Translate (T2T). The smartwatch can be purchased today with delivery in April to anywhere in the world.
This student entrepreneur won a $10,000 AMP grant for her Chinese internship start-up
Austern International, a start-up founded by 20-year-old UNSW student entrepreneur Lily Wu that puts Australian students into Chinese internships recently won a $10,000 innovation...
Looking back on a 2005 speech by Steve Jobs: Stay hungry. Stay foolish.
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.
Online events startup takes top honours in 2009 RMIT Business Plan Competition
Online events startup ourevent.info has taken out top honours at RMIT University's prestigious 2009 Business Plan Competition.
Are Australians the worst illegal downloaders in the world?
When the climatic finale of the television series ‘Lost’ aired earlier this year, BitTorrent news service TorrentFreak estimated that 15% of all torrent downloads of the final episode originated from Australia, despite the country representing only 0.3% of the world’s population. Do we blame our convict past or lack of access to legal channels?
Microsoft CEO asked to sign a student's Macbook. Scribbles something almost funny.
When a plucky young Apple fanboy asked Ballmer to sign his Macbook during a visit to Trevecca Nazarene University in Nashville, Tennessee last week, the Microsoft Motivator-in-Chief played along, even scrawling a personal note along with his name.
