Profiles

Not many can say they started their multi-million dollar company with $3,000 and a lease for an overpriced office.

Mark Bernberg is aiming to shake up the cleaning industry with WHIZZ, an online platform that connects those seeking home cleaning services with independent cleaners.

As many entrepreneurs would recognise, Suzi Devine’s drive to business came from finding a gap in the industry. In her case, it was the wine industry.

At just 19 years of age, Jordan Grives found himself pitching his then brand new telecommunications service to C-suite executives at some of Australia’s most well-known companies.

A self-funded investment of $5,000 kick-started what would become a fixture in the jewellery sector, Bowerhaus. The homegrown company’s future would see worldwide expansion, a loyal following, a focus on charity work, and a partnership to bring a fundraising event to Kirribilli House. Upon graduating from design school, Elizabeth Lee joined her sister in a […]

Friends since their early teens, the two future entrepreneurs talked constantly about making a business. It was a dream. It became a reality.

When Mala Salakas took to kids’ parties as Patches the Clown in the 80s, little did she know that she was planting the seeds for what would be one of Australia’s biggest retail party supply outlets and one of the country’s most visited online party supply stores.

Anna Mitsios has been making waves in the beauty and health industry since pushing her idea of making beauty products so pure…they were actually “edible”.

Capital, it’s a key factors that can determine whether or not a small business survives another day. With this firmly in mind, Charlotte Petris and her co-founder-husband launched a business that brings SMEs together with an all-important business element: the investor.

The beauty industry is one of the most competitive, add to that the struggle of standing out in a crowded community of online retailers, and it’s downright rare to find an entrepreneur that has succeeded in both areas like Kate Morris.

With Sleeping Duck, Winston Wijeyeratne and Selvam Sinnappan have created the perfect example of how the online world is disrupting the retail sector and how those wanting to compete with big businesses need to focus their efforts on bettering their competition’s inadequacies.

Kathleen Kenny came up with tribesta whilst driving to pick up her daughter from school. After witnessing the aftermath of an accident, which had left a woman trapped in her car, Kathleen thought, “What if that was me?”

Tired of constantly asking his cousin to buy and send him fitness gear from the States, entrepreneur Shaun Greenblo decided to find an easier way to help people receive the items they wanted from other places.

28-year-old Giles Butler and his team took out the top spot at Sydney Startup Weekend thanks to SoundNinja, a browser plug-in that aims to make it easier for users to find music artists and their tracks.

“46 per cent of Australians are actually functionally illiterate. This is a really big deal. Some estimates have revealed it costs around $US18 billion. We’re talking about figures that would make a significant dent in any budget deficit here.”

How does an entrepreneur get his brainchild from nothing to be worth more than $US100 million? Would you believe getting fired after being too drunk at a work Christmas party helped?

As a child, Alex Bedwani desperately wanted a dog. When his parents said they did not fancy the prospect of such a long-term responsibility, 11-year-old Alex came up with a simple concept: start minding other people’s dogs for short periods of time.

DesignCrowd was founded in 2007 by Alec Lynch, an engineer by training, who started the concept after leaving his job and taking out $10,000 in savings to run the business from his garage.

Cameron Campbell had a simple goal when he and his wife decided to start-up their own business and that was to create a comfortable source of income for his potentially growing family.

It was passion that compelled Tim Thomas to start his own brewery in South Nowra and make a play for a slice of the growing craft beer market.