Startup & Entrepreneurship
News, opinions and advice on starting and building companies.
Want to create a successful company? Seek change. Not cash.
Financial success may seem like the obvious benchmark for business success. However, according to former Apple Fellow and managing director of Garage Technology Ventures Guy Kawasaki, it is “making meaning” that lies at the heart of entrepreneurship and should be the foundation stone of any business.
This champion swimmer has partnered with Xero to help small businesses go for gold...
Xero, a leading cloud accounting software, recently announced the launch of the Business Gold advice guide, featuring insights from champion swimmer and gold medallist Michael Klim, to help small businesses succeed.
Is raising capital from your customers a smart move?
While most new technology developers will spend months chasing down angel investors and cold calling VCs, often with the randomness of a headless chook, without too much planning or forethought (much to the potential investor's frustration), sometimes the safest money is already right under their noses. It's called 'strategic capital' or 'smart money' (or a mix of the two).
Apple ditched its skeuomorphic design for for iOS7. Well done them. [VIDEO]
Ever since Apple announced that it ditched its skeuomorphic design for the latest operating system, Google has been running hot.
Running hot on what? I...
Beanhunter has raised $500,000 to help more people find a better cup of coffee
Coffee review and recommendation app and website Beanhunter recently successfully completed a $500,000 funding round.
Digital keeps moving at a scary pace so this start-up is offering real future-proof...
Academy Xi currently offers part-time courses with full-time options coming in 2017. The courses are 10 weeks in duration and are deliberately structured to be intense, covering everything from the basics to best practice.
Meet KISS Mobile, Anthill 2011 Cool Company Award Finalist [Micro Business Category]
We suspect the first word in this small telecommunications company's name has nothing to do with liplocks and everything to do with "keep it simple, stupid." Founded in Melbourne, Kiss Mobile offers a pay-as-you-go alternative to the contractual phone plans from the big telcos.
This new start-up is combining traditional and short-term rental management
In a sense it is an accounts and property management for home-owner's to handle the entire guest experience all guest inquiries, cleaning, property management.
Are you jonesing for serial entrepreneurship? First, you gotta sell your startup
Are you considering selling your business?
Is it already on the market? Do you think you have what it takes to be a true serial...
Australian innovation lets the people of PNG pay for electricity using mobile phone credits...
The rapid adoption of this service highlights the suitability of mobile payment technology in developing countries, which often do not have access to the same payment methods and services available in developed markets. It also highlights a trend that Australian software and application developers best not ignore.
Even the genius of San Francisco tech companies can’t solve the hipster problem [VIDEO]
Oh great. This is just what we need. San Fransisco is about to become even smarter. Some of the greatest tech companies, and the minds behind them, are joining forces to solve the problems of the city itself.
Climbing Mount Everest: how startups can stay the course on their business journey
Entrepreneurs have to be everything to everyone, we wear multiple hats every day and throughout the journey. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I have identified five key ingredients to launching a successful startup and staying the course.
This fintech start-up offers Australian investors easier access to US stocks and a foundation...
Fintech is one of the hottest niches in tech right here in Australia, with more and more start-ups popping up here and there.
Now Australian...
This gutsy start-up has set out on a big mission to make allied healthcare...
WellOne, Australia's first discounted healthcare membership recently launched in Melbourne, aiming to make allied healthcare affordable for everyone in Australia.
Group buying is a fad (Just don’t tell James Packer)
When any organisation or industry grows rapidly, as many of the group buying companies have already done (Spreets acquired over 500,000 email addresses from a nation of 20 million in less than 10 months), it's hard not to wonder whether the growth is sustainable. Naturally, every market has a ceiling. Doesn't it? Perhaps not.
Oculus Rift provides a view into the future
Have you seen The Lawnmower Man? If you haven’t, don’t.
It’s enough to make you laugh off the idea of virtual reality all together....
These start-ups pitched their way into partnerships with Mondelēz brands for Mobile Futures [VIDEO]
A few weeks back, Mondelēz International put out the call for start-ups to apply for its breakthrough mobile marketing initiative, Mobile Futures.
They have now...
Franklyn Scholar, an Anthill Cool Company, honoured again for entrepreneurship
We so enjoy seeing winners of Anthill awards receive accolades elsewhere. Not that we're surprised, of course. It's simply gratifying to see other arbiters of business acumen rise to our level of discernment and taste. And so it is for Ernst & Young, which recently announced its Entrepreneur of the Year Southern region awards.
Wolf of Wall Street Jordan Belfort gives advice to entrepreneurs: “Go out and frikkin’...
One of Anthill's own -- two-time 30under30 winner Jack Delosa -- gives us a preview of a video interview with Jordan Belfort, the infamous Wolf of Wall Street. Just a few minutes of listening to Belfort provides a taste of the manic passion, drive and intelligence it required to soar so high and sink so low. He talks about making the big score, serial entrepreneurship, and schmoozing with Richard Branson. He talks about keeping it all about ambition instead of greed.
Hilarious parodies of the UK Dragons' Den
These three amusing sketches are courtesy of the BAFTA-award-winning comedy sketch program Harry and Paul, featuring Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse. While clearly lampooning the regular UK Dragons, who won't be familiar to most Australians, there's also much mirth to be found in their portrayal of the shows endless line of absurdly optimistic entrepreneur-pitchers.
