Tag: Entrepreneur

Last year wasn’t all doom and gloom. Some plucky businesswomen battled through the GFC and are now looking forward to a great 2010.

Peter Carter was appointed managing partner of Carter Capner Law in 1995 and has spent the past 15 years cementing the firm’s position as one of Queensland’s leading legal practices.

Biz Gals brings the traditional sense of networking back to the business world with monthly face-to-face events where like-minded businesswomen can meet, brainstorm, and grow from each other’s successes and failures.

Carolyn Ingram, the entrepreneur behind Clinic Aesthetic and leading cosmetics brand Che Skincare does not have the resume you would probably expect.

From leotards to spin shorts, fluoro colours to classic black, over-size aerobic classes to one-on-one personal training – Lorna Jane Clarkson has seen it all. Now, twenty years after launching her own activewear label, Lorna Jane Clarkson has become a household name synonymous with active living.

When Vicky Schulz graduated from Bellevue Beauty College in 1988 in Brisbane, in her wildest dreams she never imagined that by the age of 42 she would be the co-founder and face of a leading Australian natural cosmetics brand

From humble beginnings as a kid who always wanted to work in television, came great things for Tony Laughton, CEO of Promo Scape, one of Australia’s leading DVD and Blu-ray authoring houses.

Ezypay, has just released the Top 10 Consumer Trends Impacting the Fitness Industry in 2010, with some interesting conclusions and predictions for better service in the fitness industry.

So on Saturday, I was heading to a lunch date when I was cleaned up on the driver’s side by a bloke coming out of a car park into traffic. He just didn’t see me. But I saw him. Oh man did I see him. In what seemed like a split second before he cleaned me, up I saw him coming and there was nothing I could do to stop it.

Last week I had the privilege of judging a StartUp business competition at Planet2010. The LaunchPad concept was to find the very best business ideas and give 6 finalists 5 minutes to pitch their ideas to a panel of judges – Dragon’s Den style.