#Founder Friday
'I had to become a beginner again': Dr Queenie Wu on building Mindspace from a solo room
Dr Queenie Wu built Mindspace from a solo room in 2019. She tells Dynamic Business why growth sometimes means slowing down first.
From a swallowed bottle of cleaner to a homecoming: the Soapnut Republic story
Launching somewhere you’re a stranger is in some ways easier, because you arrive without any preconceptions about how things should work. We recently caught up with Kim Gilliland, co-founder of Soa…
This skincare founder runs a $1.3 million business with a team of three
Jacqui Vidal runs a $1.3 million forecast skincare business with just two casual staff. Here's the deliberate model behind the lean approach.
Inside the Three-Continent Search for One Perfect Product
This week's Founder Friday, Dynamic Business sat down with Liz Anieto, founder of Svelte.
Founder Friday: How Beth Hall learned to define growth without hiring a bigger team
This week’s Founder Friday covers Beth Hall on why she stopped chasing headcount and started building a business she actually wanted to run.
20 orders to 700 a month: The founder Friday story of Natalie May
This Founder Friday, Natalie May shares how she built Adelaide’s Natalie May Scrapbooking—growing a $20,000 papercraft side hustle into a nearly million-dollar business in just five years.
Why I no longer let any single platform control my business
Ad accounts disabled, stores shut down with no warning. Jellaine Dee on why diversifying beyond algorithms saved her business.
Why I stopped trying to be indispensable to my own business
This week’s Founder Friday, Shawn Maftounian of Prestige Personalised Training, talks about the mistake that nearly broke his business.
Trust takes seconds to lose. This founder built a business on that one line
This week’s Founder Friday profiles Kath Harris, who left corporate HR to build practical, relationship-first support for growing businesses
Founder Friday: How a camping trip cured her daughter’s eczema and inspired a natural skincare brand
This week’s Founder Friday hears from Cedarwood Road founder Rochell Toia on what it took to back herself and build something from nothing.
Founder Friday: The story behind Everlasting Candle Co. and the founders who built it
This week on Founder Friday, we sat down with the co-founders of Everlasting Candle Co. Tamara and Jesse Furguson
Founder Friday: Meet Angela Magut, the Melbourne founder turning Kenyan leather into opportunity
This week on Founder Friday, we sat down with Angela Magut, the founder of Miriam Bella, a small batch shoe brand handcrafted in rural Kenya by women
How a newborn’s eczema and a grandmother’s botanical recipes became a 350-store skincare brand
This week’s Founder Friday follows Kirsty Coates on building a brand while working full time and trusting a solution that worked overnight.
Hustle & Grace founder Cindi Greentree on building a $20k a month brand from a TikTok idea
This Founder Friday, Hustle & Grace’s Cindi Greentree shares the TikTok moment that changed everything and the lessons she learned building a brand from zero in under a year.
The frustration that followed AbilityMap’s Mike Erlin across three countries and became a business
This week on Founder Friday, we sat down with Mike Erlin, the founder who watched companies spend billions on hiring and training, then struggle to explain why the wrong people kept getting through.
The unusual sleep method that became a business solving couples’ nightly battles
Dynamic Business speaks with Scandi SLEEP’s founder for this week’s Founders Friday about building Australia’s only brand dedicated to couples who sleep with separate duvets.
The flood, the helicopters and the barramundi: One CEO’s lesson in customer service
Dan Richards reveals how Humpty Doo Barramundi became Australia’s largest barramundi producer through relentless innovation.
Strapsicle: How a sleep-deprived mom’s idea became a lifesaver for parents
Discover how a late-night accident led to the creation of Strapsicle, a Kindle holder born out of necessity and parental ingenuity.
Nourishy: A Brisbane mom’s answer to prolonging breast milk benefits
Dynamic Business interviewed Cass Wingrove, the founder of Nourish. Check out this week’s edition of Founder Friday for the full story.
From Café failure to multi-million-dollar success: Meet Davie Fogarty
In this week’s edition of Founder Friday, we delve into the story of Davie Fogarty, the 28-year-old serial entrepreneur and AFR Young Rich Lister.
How I expanded my gifting app’s reach to 33 countries since 2022
YouPay's Matt Holme discusses his journey, highlighting the gifting app's rapid expansion to 33 countries within a year
WLTH’s brothers: Saving oceans with loans
Meet the brothers behind WLTH cleaning up Australia’s oceans, one loan at a time.
Carving a $15m stone legacy: Meet Jason Gittany
Rock solid migrant work ethic saw this stone business grow to $15mill.
A couple’s journey to revolutionise neurological rehabilitation
Introducing RoboFit: Australia’s First Robot-Powered Therapy Center, founded by Maryanne Harris and Daniel Hillyer.