Everyone is a negotiator. Irrespective of your job title, rarely a day goes by in business when you are not negotiating something with someone, whether it is a supplier, customer, employee, co-worker or partner. It does not matter whether you are in the middle of a make-or-break deal or simply trying to influence the choice…
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 you are writing your website, marketing materials or a simple email, copywriting is critical to getting your message across effectively. Good copywriting makes a connection with the reader, arouses emotions…
Unless you have deep pockets, your new venture is not going to get very far without a capital injection. Of course, different investment opportunities suit different investment types. We asked a bank loan broker, an angel investor and an early stage venture capitalist what they look for in an investment deal. Interviewed, edited and condensed…
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 a recipe for greatness. Leaders have, by and large, always recognised the value of their team. However, it is only now that momentum is gathering for greater recognition of the importance…
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.
An Aussie swimming coach sells training secrets to the Chinese and it hits the front pages of the tabloids. Fair enough. But our precious intellectual property has been flowing the wrong way for generations. Rowan Gilmore contemplates a troubling epidemic. The Olympics may be a distant memory, but we still keep our favourite recollections. One…
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’ in Paris to gauge exactly what is at stake. Edward Hooper had been hanging around with the head gardener at the Mornington Peninsula’s Morning StarEstate gardens and winery to see the…
Thoughts of 3D Chess came to me the other day as I tried to explain to a friend the entrepreneurial process for designing and creating a new business. The more I talked about planning and developing start ups, the more complex and less clear the whole subject seemed to become. As an educator, the best…
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.
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, as Mark Story discovers. It’s not what happens to you and me that defines us as people, but how we respond to the challenges and opportunities life throws our way….
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 regular Anthill columnists, has just released a Getaway-style book aimed at upcoming entrepreneurs and business leaders looking to go global. The Airport Economist sees Harcourt jet-setting around…
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 in the manufacture of fluorescent lights, dental amalgam and other everyday products. What’s more, no government regulations exist mandating the capture and recycle of mercury and other metals from such…
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).
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 for the good times to return. But this is when you really need to focus on growth strategies. By Gregory Will The current situation is particularly intimidating for a…
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. Clint Walker, CEO of Rising Sun Research (winner of the “Coolest of the Cool” award at Anthill’s 2007 Cool Company Awards), believes the abolition of CR will lead to the…
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 brush as the bad. And this is a terrible shame, for there are clearly good and bad bio-fuel projects, just as there are good and bad hydro projects. The principle behind…
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 Flik behind the wheel. Mattes and Flik are the proud authors of US Patent 6784792, a “Method and device for recognition of a collision with a pedestrian” (issued August 2004). That’s…
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 does anyone really know what they’re talking about? Marketing maven Ray Beatty takes a knife to the alphabet’s tail. Here’s a topic that I’m sure confuses you as much as it…
With everyone scrambling to figure out exactly what works online – what makes people’s mouse-trigger finger itch and why – it was only a matter of time before IT companies looked to the realm of cognitive psychology for assistance. Melbourne-based Geek IT Group (CITG) is one of a number of online consultancies using cognitive theory…
Traditional commercialisation is not a core function of a university, but engagement with the community (including industry) is, argues Rowan Gilmore. In case you’d missed it, one of the hundreds of reviews the new Australian government has undertaken is a review into the national innovation system, chaired by Dr. Terry Cutler. His committee invited public…
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