Tag: Editions
Getting negotiations right
Everyone is a negotiator. Irrespective of your job title, rarely a day goes by in business when you are not negotiating something with someone,...
How to become a killer copywriter
Is your writing tired and boring? Are you looking for a killer copywriter? It’s time you discovered the secrets to making good copywriting great.
Whether...
Show me the money
Unless you have deep pockets, your new venture is not going to get very far without a capital injection. Of course, different investment opportunities...
The power of people management
It’s impossible to build a good company without knowing how to attract and secure top talent. But knowing how to keep them.... now there’s...
Red hot chile peppers the globe with FTAs
Chile, the “jaguar” economy of South America, holds a newly-minted Free Trade Agreement with Australia. The Airport Economist, Tim Harcourt, explains why this is good news on both sides of the South Pacific Ocean.
Selling our IP to the Chinese
An Aussie swimming coach sells training secrets to the Chinese and it hits the front pages of the tabloids. Fair enough. But our precious...
Just Imagine
A looming IT skills crisis threatens to leave scores of promising Australian technologies underdeveloped and uncommercialised. Brad Howarth recently attended Microsoft’s annual ‘Imagine Cup’...
Entrepreneur as 3D chess
Thoughts of 3D Chess came to me the other day as I tried to explain to a friend the entrepreneurial process for designing and...
The morning after
Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield is a free agent again. After creating the world’s premier online photo-sharing community, selling it to Yahoo and spending three years working inside the walls of that now troubled internet giant, he’s out and ready for something new. Paul Ryan sat down with him in Melbourne at the recent X|Media|Lab conference.
Beyond the books
Entrepreneurship education comes of age
Gaining the confidence to plot your business’s next step without knowing all the answers is the key to entrepreneurship education,...
Book reviews
THE AIRPORT ECONOMIST
By Tim Harcourt
Allen and Unwin
Catriona Rowntree may soon be looking for a new job because Tim Harcourt, Chief Economist at Austrade and...
Victorian Technology Profiles Aug/Sep 08
Fixing the lights
Most people are well aware that the chemical element mercury is toxic. However, many people aren’t aware that mercury is still used...
The 168 steps to starting a business (Part I)
We decided to list 168 steps (for want of a better random number). Of course, coming up with 168 steps is even harder than writing them, so we called on our trusty readers via the Anthill blog, in what has since been described as an experiment in Magazine 2.0 (reader-generated print content).
Gauging the mood of private business in Australia
With Australia’s private business community facing the spectre of economic uncertainty and the credit crunch, it is tempting to batten the hatches and wait...
Letter to the Editor
Letter to the Editor
Not all Anthill readers thought the axing of Commercial Ready (CR) was an unmitigated disaster for the start-up ecosystem in Australia....
On bio-fuels
There has been a lot of criticism of late about bio-fuels and, like many issues, the good technologies are being tarred with the same...
The car polygraph
If it’s true that necessity is the mother of invention, I never want to get in a car with either Bernhard Mattes or Gottfried...
To understand the generations, you have to learn your XYZ
G’day Anthillians. Everyone’s yakking on about Gen this and Gen that, trying to figure out the perfect pitch that will make them rich. But...
Ant Bytes — AA29
With everyone scrambling to figure out exactly what works online – what makes people’s mouse-trigger finger itch and why – it was only a...
Where to now for innovation?
Traditional commercialisation is not a core function of a university, but engagement with the community (including industry) is, argues Rowan Gilmore.
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