Jack Delosa, 2009 Anthill 30under30 winner
While many business people begin by studying a Commerce degree, perhaps even an MBA, Jack Delosa epitomises the ‘school of hard knocks’ entrepreneurial path.
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Are your customers revolting?
Soon after the NSW State Government announced the re-design of their state logo, the public decided that they could do a better job! After the Federal Government threw away $8 Million on creating the now defunct Grocery Choice website to monitor supermarket prices, a group of consumers set up @price_check – a Twitter-based crowdsourcing experiment.
These days, if you don’t engage your customers, they’ll mobilise against you.
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David Ball, 2009 Anthill 30under30 winner
When asked to create a 30under30 award category that would best suit him, 22-year-old Queenslander David Ball suggested the “Robin Hood Award (for taking some money away from the rich guys and giving it back to the poor guys)”.
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Sammartino tests Twitcam as a new tool to educate entrepreneurs
If you want some start-up “radvice”, regular Anthill blogger, Rentoid founder and all-round social media maven Steve Sammartino is inviting you to join him tonight at 7.30pm as he trials twitcam.com to discuss and share common entrepreneurial issues and causes for concern. Sammartino will be running a live “Q&A” session for start-ups, entrepreneurs and “anyone…
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Ross Hill, 2009 Anthill 30under30 winner
Ross Hill doesn’t turn 30 for another eight years, but he’s crammed more entrepreneurial activity into his 22 years than many people twice his age.
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Sophee McPhee, 2009 Anthill 30under30 winner
Launching an independent niche magazine as the economy is nose-diving would be daunting enough, let alone doing so as a 22-year-old student.
But that’s just what Queenslander Sophee McPhee did in 2008 when she became as the Founding Editor of Queensland Calendar Girls Magazine (QCG Magazine).
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Experience is Everything
Customers want more than your widgets or whatever your core offering happens to be. They want an experience. They want to be wowed. They want to join your tribe. If you don’t approach them on these terms, there are countless rival ‘tribes’ that will, argues Kevin Garber.
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Marita Cheng, 2009 Anthill 30under30 winner
Marita Cheng is still at university (studying a mechatronics engineering and computer science double-degree), but she already owns and runs two businesses.
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Nick Ferguson, 2009 Anthill 30under30 winner
At 19 years of age, Nick Ferguson is our youngest 30under30 winner for 2009. He is owner and founder of Sustain Fitness, a fitness advisory and resource development company he launched in 2007 while still in Year 12. During that year, Ferguson was hospitalised with a severe illness. He used the time to channel his drive and commitment into entrepreneurial ways.
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What are your logo colours really saying?
Corporate colours contain hidden meanings, so what are they secretly saying about your business?
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Something’s rotten in the state of radio
There is frustration in radioland, much tearing of hair and beating of breasts. Nothing they do seems to make much difference to generally dismal ratings and they showed a national decline in revenue at the end of last financial year.
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Something's rotten in the state of radio
There is frustration in radioland, much tearing of hair and beating of breasts. Nothing they do seems to make much difference to generally dismal ratings and they showed a national decline in revenue at the end of last financial year.
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Work ON and not IN your business… Thanks heaps for the advice.
I’ve heard it a hundred times. Entrepreneurs need to work on their business as opposed to in their business.
However, getting stuck in the day-to-day happens to most of us, and the obvious question is ‘why?’ Especially when we know it is not in the best interests of our company. Are we just inherently forgetful, or is something else in play?
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The market-building dilemma
Having a strong market-based business is great. You are a power broker and can often profit from both sides. But how do you get over the chicken and egg problem?
From my experience working with more than 12 market-based businesses, there are two things you need to do.
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The state of angel investment in the current market
Much has been written and said about the frigid state of both bank and venture capital funding for growing businesses in the current global market. But how are angel investors and their investee companies coping? Prominent Australian angel investor Jordan Green provides this handy snapshot and some advice for investors and entrepreneurs alike.
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When the contest is between selling out and risking death
It takes a lot of guts for an entrepreneur to turn down an offer from a US venture capital investor, particularly when the alternative means staying put when you have just two months cash left. Brad Howarth follows the plight of innovative start-ups down the road to commercialisation.
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Raising capital – Who gives a damn about the numbers?
People ask me quite regularly if I can look over their numbers prior to them talking to potential funders. I have generally been happy to do so, but the truth is that I will have no clue. Neither will the potential funders. And, most likely, neither will you. The thing about most new ventures is…well, they are new. So we put down our best guesses, present them as the gospel truth and everyone pretends they know more than everyone else. What a crock.
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New invention foils paparazzi by automatically returning flash
New York University grad student Adam Harvey has invented an “Anti Paparazzi” device that detects the camera flash from one or more photographers and returns a flash almost instantaneously, ruining the shot.
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Every journey has a start
Today we launch a new blog. ‘The Entrepreneurial Truth’ is written by mag nation fopunder, Sahil Merchant. In this, his first post, Merchant admits that his new venture has yet to turn a cent of profit and offers his own brand of unspun entrepreneurial truth, direct for the coal-face.
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Can social media sell anything but itself?
Despite having an MBA majoring in marketing, I fully admit to having a rather simplistic view of marketing: present a product or service so people can see what it is. Then leave the selling to the sales department.
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