It has been noted, somewhat dryly, that to accurately gauge business angel investment dealflow one would have to frequent every café and backstreet bar in the country. In Australia, angel investors inhabit the frontier terrain that lies between the three ‘F’s – Family, Friends and Fools – and serious early-stage venture capital. With rich returns…
strong>It’s true that most business owners live and die by their own risk-and-reward equation. Craig Scutt explores why so many Australian entrepreneurs forget the insurance parachute on their flight to the top. Risk and success go hand in hand. After all, the bigger the risks, the greater the rewards. But how much risk is worth…
Most of us agree that technology is great. It feeds us information, speeds things along, connects people scattered around the globe and means we don’t have go get up off the couch to change TV channel. In this era of entertainment-on-demand, it’s easy to forget that technological innovation underpins far more than our frivolous distractions….
The Dumb Report 2007 Making mistakes is all part of growing a business. It’s just a pity that not all mistakes are created equal. As 2007 draws to a close, it’s time to look back on some of the goofs, gaffs and groaners that caught our attention, arched our eyebrows, evoked involuntary forehead-slapping, before splitting…
Paradigms shift. Empires fall. Today’s wisdom is tomorrow’s folly. Shift happens. We’ve compiled our top seven rule-bending trends from 2007 to help you succeed in 2008. Not so long ago, the staff at Anthill were wowed by an online video clip that simply scrolled through a number of statistics, accompanied by an emotive soundtrack, highlighting…
October/November, 2007 You’ll no doubt have read about all these businesses that have “gone carbon neutral,” and thought, ‘Gee, that’s great, I’ll go buy their products.’ Scratch the surface of these claims however and, in some cases, a different picture emerges. The first and most primary problem with claims of carbon neutrality is that there…
< Check out Cool Mobility’s the YouTube video MOVING AND GROOVING COMPANY NAME: COOL Mobility Pty Ltd FOUNDERS: Colin Johanson & Moira McEwan ORIGINS: Company set up 2007 after five years of R&D. MARKET: The global market for the disabled equipment is “gargantuan”. In 2004, the US market alone for electric wheelchairs topped US$2 billion….
CREATIVE ESPRESSO By Stephen Sammartino Click image to enlarge. ************* ANT BYTES Facebook costing Australia $5b There was a time when, if someone was huddled over a computer at work, they were, in all probability, hard at work. But recent research suggests that sweat could be being shed in the cause of tracking down ex-partners…
Surely the commercialisation of our world-class R&D is in the public interest. So why do we circle warily around the intellectual property that is created? Rowan Gilmore explores this faux siege. I enjoy telling the story about one of our first Commercialisation Bootcamps, a two-day professional development program run by the Australian Institute for Commercialisation…
Surely the commercialisation of our world-class R&D is in the public interest. So why do we circle warily around the intellectual property that is created? Rowan Gilmore explores this faux siege. I enjoy telling the story about one of our first Commercialisation Bootcamps, a two-day professional development program run by the Australian Institute for Commercialisation…
More than ever before, our success as individuals and as a society is defined by our capacity for dynamic thinking. Anders Sorman-Nilsson wants to know how you are coping. Things ain’t what they used to be. The world has changed and the pace of change is accelerating by the second. Back in 1999…
The art of a good story isn’t confined to water-cooler gossip. It’s emerging as a point of difference for leaders in successful organisations of all sizes. Gabrielle Dolan explains why. Organisational storytelling, corporate storytelling, business storytelling. Call it what you like, but even a few years ago, any of these variations were often…
Know what your customers are thinking. In this hyper-connected world, it’s not difficult. So what’s the problem? If there is a statement that is beginning to irk me beyond tolerance this year it is that ‘Australian companies fail to innovate’, or derivatives thereof. OK – by various global measures there may be some truth to…
Building a marketplace is a lot simpler than it used to be. Once, you had to purchase a plot of land, subdivide it into stalls, rent these out to proprietors, gain a government permit, advertise, then sit back and watch capitalism bloom. However, since the early days of eBay and Amazon, much of this can…
There’s no such thing as an average entrepreneur. Sure, as a group they may share some common traits, like a fondness for risk and its reward, but when it comes to entrepreneurial higher learning, there’s no one-size-fits-all. That’s why variety and flexibility are in high demand at Australia’s best business schools. Here, Jodie O’Keeffe gets…
There’s no such thing as an average entrepreneur. Sure, as a group they may share some common traits, like a fondness for risk and its reward, but when it comes to entrepreneurial higher learning, there’s no one-size-fits-all. That’s why variety and flexibility are in high demand at Australia’s best business schools. Here, Jodie O’Keeffe gets…
Is India really the new China for budding Australian exporters? Darren Baguley examines this complex trading partner and wonders whether establishing a foothold on the sub-continent is as difficult as some entrepreneurs are led to believe. To most Australians, India is synonymous with curry, cricket and outsourcing, but the country is also shaping up…
Mass customisation meets e-learning Every business is unique in purpose, size, shape, culture and methods. So, arranging training courses customised to suit your particular business needs often involves time, money and effort in large quantities. This was certainly James Boldiston’s experience. As director of production house and e-learning provider NetEffective Media Group,…
Four years ago, John Anderson was working in business development for a logistics company when he got bored “not doing things my way”. With his business partner, Anderson started Yeahpoint, offering clients unique ‘point of product’ retail marketing opportunities using interactive in-store media. Recently Yeahpoint was among a handful of Australian businesses to be short-listed…
The best funding applications are based on projects that are genuinely important and reflect real need. Strong and competitive applications should demonstrate firm commitment and be enthusiastically supported, both from within and outside the organisation. This should be clear in the application. Too many organisations become blinkered or enamoured with their project. Be careful…
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