Startup & Entrepreneurship

Paloma Mobile Pty Ltd, founded less than a year ago to deliver rich apps and services optimised for low-cost smartphones in poorer global markets, has won a ringing endorsement of its busines with a $1.5 million Series A funding led by OneVentures.

goCatch hasn’t had a smooth ride since its launch a year ago. The app threatened taxi alliances, because its freed cabbies and allowed passengers the online equivalent of flagging a cab anytime. With cabbie councils hitting back, citing a lack of passenger safety, goCatch was pushed on the defensive, and never quite hit the high gears.

I recently met with a company that had attempted to deliver a reward and recognition program. Despite their best efforts and intentions, it failed to inspire staff.

It is often believed that creative ideas come in a moment of inspiration to a genius mind. Piffle says Kirby Ferguson. He goes on to explain how all creativity begins with copying what has come before. Evolution must happen on the way to a revolution.

The Small Business Commissioner is expected to act as a “one-stop shop” for small business people, representing their concerns and interests directly to the government, meeting a longstanding demand for better advocacy, advice and information. But will the Commissioner have the teeth, and thus the power to make things better for small business?

Here’s proof that Facebook, Twitter et al aren’t the only companies earning column inches on TechCrunch. Brisbane driving school No Yelling recently found itself on the nerd digi-bible’s front page off the back of just 15 minutes’ work, earning loads of SEO-tastic links in the process.

“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” the Bard of Avon wrote, memorably. But it is not a spirit that is widely imbibed in the world of business. The easier thing is to simply copy the name, or, shall we say, brand. Just what is the importance of a business name?

Posse seeks to connect retailers with customers and their friends. To do so, it has embraced gamification — an approach that has been embraced by such dissimilar organisations as the World Bank and the U.S. Army, not to mention corporate entities.

The 10 successful startups will get up to $18,000 each ($6,000 for each founder), free rent and tuition, besides at least $85,000 in free perks offered by companies such as Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Rackspace and others. The program starts in Adelaide on May 28, with 45 mentors from Australia and around the world.

Despite being surrounded by technology and gadget, when it comes to meetings, I still like to write. Granted, it's illegible to anyone else because I do spend 90% of my time typing. I dislike typing on my iPad in meetings. I find it distracts me from the meeting. Yet, I can easily write with ease. Enter Collusion, a cracking product designed by locals and now seeking Kickstarter funding.

Kondoot calls itself the world’s “first integrated, social live video platform.” It's founders are being referred to as the Australian Zuckerbergs. It's heading for a humble $10 million share offering on the ASX. So, what's it really all about?

They embody the passions of earnest inventors and the dreams of budding business builders. They are the products of industries both old and...

We admit that some of our maven judges are known to use salty language the way Lady Gaga uses animal products in costumes, to which we can only add: try reviewing a hundred inventions in one week and see how well you behave under pressure. Other businesses may not be so forgiving of personnel indiscretions. Which is where Bleeply enters in. If you've ever tweeted something -- especially at work -- that you immediately came to regret, you'll appreciate what this fifth-place SMART 100 innovation brings to the table.

In true Anthillian style, the SMART 100 is an ever-evolving, ever-improving experiment. Designed to encourage, promote and support innovation in Australia, it identifies and ranks new Australian innovations by applying a combination of crowdsourcing, collaboration and common-sense. Who are this year's SMART 100?

Stories are what sell you as an entrepreneur. Stories get people excited about your product. They can be ugly, but they must always be authentic. Here, we lift the veil on the storytelling secrets that every entrepreneur should know and use -- and guarantee that your pitches will never be the same again!

The world of business, in my opinion, is complex yet basic, exciting yet exhausting. Often it presents problems and challenges that make us question our self belief and capabilities.

WorkplaceFit is the result of the personal experiences and motivations of its founders — Donald and Fabian Mendes, an IT consultant. Both, separately, discovered in unnamed jobs that the “workplace cultures were not what we had expected, resulting in a frustrating and un-motivating working experience.”

It seems like only yesterday we were reporting on the opening of the NSW Government supported StartupHouse all the way over in nerd mecca, Silicon Valley. And yet last month NSW Trade & Investment named the first four early-stage technology companies due to gain access to international business opportunities while being nestled on the incubator’s geeky bosom. In this short video, Robert G.S. Lambert (we can only assume that his middle initials stand for 'Goin' Stellar') takes a virtual tour through Startup House and introduces some of its newest tenants.

an you believe it? YouTube is seven years old. It seems like only yesterday that it had just a few thousand videos. Yet, it's also one of those strange situations where it's hard to remember life before YouTube.

If you hang in the right circles, you may hear variations on the concept of cloud computing. Cloud computing also goes by the name of the cloud, hosted services, utility computing, grid computing, Software as a Service (Saas), Infrastructure as a Service (Iaas) and Platform as a Service (PaaS). With so many super-catchy titles, just what the heck is it? So glad you asked…