Have you ever wandered off a cold and rainy street, through the open doors of a shop into somewhere warm, dry and seemingly a world away from whence you came? Have you ever wondered how much energy that shop would have saved if they’d only closed their doors. Have you wondered why on Earth they…
Has our recent prosperity all been one big, furry hallucination stoked by our collective sense of millennial transcendence? Whatever happened to living within your means? Marketing maven Ray Beatty reckons it’s about time we laid off the snooze button and put on a pot of espresso. Now we’re well into 2008, what do we see…
COMPANY NAME: E Ball Games Pty Ltd www.eballgames.com.au FOUNDER: Tony Course ORIGINS: Founded in 2004 MARKET: Large corporate sport sponsors. CAPITAL: Invested over $1m to date. Looking at staged investment of $1m+ to fund distribution opportunities into overseas markets. RecentBuzz: E Ball has been used by high profile clients including Qantas and Toyota, at venues…
CREATIVE ESPRESSO By Stephen Sammartino ************* ANT BYTES Something in the air The irrepressible imagination of regular Anthill contributor and rentoid.com founder Steve Sammartino has borne yet more fruit. Following on from his “Rentoid Rapper” effort last year – breakdancing in the street, pocketing $63 in tips and posting the video on YouTube to promote…
If you regard your venture as being ‘you against the world’, chances are this will become reality. Rowan Gilmore explains why collaboration is good for business.
As Baby Boomers retire, a new generation will need to pick up the slack. But how can you transfer 40 years of experience? Between now and 2020 (assuming that time machines and anti-ageing tonics remain confined to sci-fi movies), there are a few facts about the workforce that can’t and shouldn’t be ignored. 1. By…
Robelen Bajar explores the depths of Google’s bottomless search pit for websites that mysteriously disappear. If you’ve been following the drama series Lost, you’d understand the arduous journey of a booby-trapped way home. (Yes, they’re still lost). When it comes to the internet jungle, no website should befall the same fate. Especially if the jungle…
China has been the economic panda in the room for over a decade. Now, in the spring preceding the Beijing Olympics, foreign export opportunities are in full bloom. Tim Harcourt explores China’s rapacious appetite for Aussie offerings (ones we don’t dig out of the ground). With 1.3 billion people, China packs quite a punch when…
If the simplest ideas are often the best, it stands to reason that simplicity is the essence of successful business. Growing companies are confronted with complexity every day. We asked three busy professionals to weigh in on the art of simplicity.
You’ve written your business plan, spent hours agonising and estimating, but are you sure it’s a clear winner? There are two ways to find out: execute it (we wish you all the best) or enter a business plan competition and test it on a panel of experts. Winning entrants get fame, fortune and feedback of…
In the distinct vernacular of fictional family-man Daryl Kerrigan, Australia is a nation of ‘ideas people’. We’re educated, we’re passionate and we love to share our own great moments of creativity with almost anyone who’ll listen. But innovation is not just about clever ideas. It’s also about commercial outcomes. To celebrate the 2008 Australian Innovation…
Mature observers might view FunkySexyCool as merely a fast and frivolous Facebook for the mobile phone. But Tim O’Connor, the Australian expat heading up the company’s US push, is playing for keeps. Paul Ryan drops in on FunkySexyCool’s New York HQ. In a no-frills eighth-floor office on Manhattan’s West 21st Street, a block from the…
Local Product Identifies Global Niche As an established distributor of international identity management software products, eB2Bcom offered best-of-breed niche products to the Australian marketplace. They found, however, that often the technologies they sold and supported were acquired by new suppliers, leaving eB2Bcom with little control over the products’ future. In 2004, when local software company…
A little understanding goes a long way. When I came back to jail, I was lost, angry, disappointed, frustrated. I was placed in the Youth Unit and one of the mentor prisoners introduced himself. He asked if I was okay, did I need anything. It was good to have someone acknowledge I was doing it…
GOING DUTCH IN BEIJING By Mark McCrum. Profile Books As the world gets smaller, cultures will inevitably clash or mash. Ultimately, the cultural intricacies at play could mean the difference between securing that million-dollar deal and eating humble business pie (or sushi, or bratwurst, or curry, etc.). In his new book, Going Dutch in Beijing,…
Right now, terrorists are applying the most successful start-up strategies that I can think of. The thing that is so compelling about terrorists is that they are taking on the establishment and winning comfortably with far fewer resources than their entrenched foes. The unlimited supplies and market dominance of their competitors has not created any…
Finding the right grant There are literally hundreds of grant funding programs available supporting an enormous range of activities. The challenge is to find the best options. Trawling through government websites can be tedious and frustrating. Most people simply don’t have the time to do this. Subscriptions to databases are available, although most focus on…
Top 200 ASX companies face climate change complications A recent report looking at the top 200 ASX-listed companies revealed that only 20 percent are ready to deal properly with climate change and its negative implications. In addition, the study, conducted by RepuTex, an investment research and consulting firm, stated that there was a direct correlation…
When asked to name the handful of countries leading the world in mobile technology and content, most people fire back with Japan, South Korea, perhaps even the United States. However, there is a largely unheralded country pushing mobile content into new, uncharted territories: Australia. The challenge for Australian mobile content production companies is that, even…
Listing on the stock exchange is a complex and expensive process, often consuming up to 10 percent of the funds raised, so it’s important to get it right.
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