The Budget So you are now ready to ask for money in your application. At this point, many applicants start to feel a bit giddy and begin dreaming about pots of gold at the end of the rainbow. However, getting the budget right is critical. There is no room for sentiment. A logical and well-supported…
Many business owners lack exit strategy The Commonwealth Bank Local Business Banking division has released a new report revealing that under half of Australian small business owners have a viable exit strategy. The report shows that only 47 percent of small business owners have an exit strategy, such as selling the business upon retirement, and…
Editor’s note: We often jump straight into the minutia of intellectual property affairs on this page without sufficient regard for those of you who might just be starting out in business. So here is a primer on intellectual property essentials. What is intellectual property (IP)? For starters, it is no single thing. Rather, it is…
Back in the nineties, my colleagues and I used to compare the size of our log files. The bigger the web server traffic log files, the better. Popularity was everything. It was common for the smaller sites to develop log-file envy. After all, traffic back then was directly related to IPO-ability. The bigger the file,…
If you’re reading Anthill and not starting or running a business, maybe you ought to stop for a second and ask yourself why? You’re obviously interested in entrepreneurship, marketing and ‘start-up’ business. You’re smart and capable, right? But you’re risk-averse. Well, we all are, to some extent. I am as much as anyone. But isn’t…
Mastering time-management and priority-setting processes are fundamental to achieving personal and business productivity. These skills are even more crucial in start-up environments, where management is regularly confronted with conflicting demand for its time and attention. At the commencement of any large undertaking, it is rare that there will be a logical or apparent path forward….
Green laundry detergent, green broadband, green electricity, green cars, green cleaning products, green flights, the list goes on… With increased awareness about climate change (particularly after the release of Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ and the reports by the Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change), more consumers are becoming concerned about the environmental credentials of products…
High definition set top boxes, mobile TV, digital radio – all contenders for the future of media, right? Well, not exactly. It can be tempting to assume if something is digital it must be good. But there is a more subtle pattern at play. If you want to understand how traditional media is being disrupted,…
Found a gap in the market for a new product or service? Got a great idea for a business venture? The following guide provides some useful pointers for completing the paperwork to launch a new business. There are several high-level issues to consider when launching a business. Choice of legal structure is often a balance…
There can be no more important mission for today’s innovators than saving the planet. In Australia, the cleantech industry recently rose to the challenge at Enviro 08, the nation’s premier conference dealing with environmental and sustainability issues. Anthill went along and met some exhibitors showing the world how to recharge, recover, recycle, reuse and reflect,…
Not so long ago, cleantech was an indulgence reserved for tech geeks, fringe-dwelling eco-activists and latte liberals crusading against their own existential guilt. Today, cleantech is on the brink of mainstream adoption, with a ready market of consumers eager to reduce their impact on the environment. Australia has no shortage of clever researchers churning out…
Spotting a niche for web traffic measurement, Adrian Giles co-founded Hitwise in 1997 and took it from a $5k start-up to $250 million trade sale in ten years. It was an interesting journey, to say the least. He shared his experience Anthill founder James Tuckerman and fellow entrepreneurs in April at an intimate lunch hosted…
There are certain things I must have in a hotel room. Apart from a comfortable bed, room service that delivers a decent hamburger, a window that opens and an air-conditioning system that blows a force-10 gale, there’s not too much more I ask for. Except free internet. I’ve just returned from a 10-day work trip…
The thing about celebrities is, they love to celebrate. Themselves. When you consider that possession of a particular talent, however tenuous, can deliver fame and fortune on the magnitude experienced by Brittney Spears or Dr Phil, it’s easy to see why so many of the special ones who walk among us genuinely believe that they…
I was at a friend’s 40th the other night and got into one of those stupid arguments that you sometimes get into with other drunk people, where it’s clear the other person is just spouting all this tired, debunked nonsense about an industry or practice that you know intimately. And yet, because you are both…
A magazine for developing minds COMPANY NAME: Big Blue Marble Publishing FOUNDER: Leanne Koster and Natalina Morelli ORIGINS: Created in 2007 by two mothers frustrated by the messages presented by other magazines in the teen and pre-teen market. CAPITAL: Self-funded by founders RECENT BUZZ: Despite lack of marketing budget and…
CREATIVE ESPRESSO By Stephen Sammartino ************* ANT BYTES CrackBerry, with benefits While entrepreneurs typically relish a 24/7 relationship with their labour of love, many professionals have been dismayed by the encroachment of work on their personal time since the introduction of email-enabled mobile devices. Even the staunchest advocates of the liberating properties of new technology…
Australian researchers and entrepreneurs have no shortage of ideas when it comes to the emerging cleantech industry. But, as Rowan Gilmore explains, these innovations will go nowhere unless government and industry start to work together. When talented entrepreneurs walk into the AIC’s offices to see how we might help them take their inventions to market,…
Feel like you’re getting short changed by your media options? Cameron Reilly thinks it’s time you stepped up. After all, as Henry David Thoreau said, “The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”
Greed and envy may be two of the seven deadly sins, but online, sinners are grinners. Robelen Bajar joins the digital gold rush. I’m a little peeved that someone else owns robelen.com. My birth certificate clearly shows I’ve had the name since birth. Even my business certificate proves I’ve been trading under that name since…
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