Tag: Entrepreneurs

When a niche nappy business from Newcastle took out one of export’s best-regarded awards, little did we know that the toilet habits of tots worldwide was such big business.

Avid global trotter turned online entrepreneur Jia En Teo channelled her frustrations with the online short-term holiday rental sector into creating Roomorama, a very profitable business that’s leading the property rental marketplace after merging with Fabrice Grindaalso of Lofty.com and securing $2.1 million in seed funding.

Your Friday Entrepreneur Fix this week features Emma Isaacs, the owner of the country’s most loved and successful networking businesses, Business Chicks.

Now that everyone is a so-called entrepreneur, the word has become meaningless.

For bootstrapping entrepreneurs, consulting is often a fact of life. But how do you keep all those side projects from overwhelming your start-up?

Jon Olafsson has been a music executive, a media mogul, and a retiree. Today he is a beverage executive. Here’s how he made it big.

What started as a website comparing shipping prices has evolved into a parcel forwarding service, allowing Australian businesses the opportunity to tap lucrative foreign markets.

This week’s Friday Entrepreneur Fix features Ruth Gallace, one half of the entrepreneurial duo behind the country’s only 100 percent pure fruit cider range Cheeky Rascal, and with 880 percent growth in the last year alone, business is booming.

Being a young business owner with much older employees to supervise can be awkward. Or not. It depends on how you handle the situation.