Tag: Successful Entrepreneurs

Think you’re too young to start a business? Take a lesson out of Mark Teperson’s book, who gave the boot to his old job to launch the successful Shoe Superstore chain.

Your Friday Entrepreneur Fix this week stars SourceBottle founder Rebecca Derrington, who’s remade the relationship between journalists and expert sources and created a profitable business in the process.

The billionaire entrepreneur built his Virgin Group empire attacking niches dominated by legacy companies. Now he’s entering a market that’s out of this world.

Lou Kendall and Heidi Bailey are a pair of entrepreneurs disproving the old adage that you shouldn’t mix business with pleasure, and the LouenHide founders are the stars of this week’s Friday Entrepreneur Fix.

Jim Marggraff, founder of digital smartpen business Livescribe, has faced no shortage of financial challenges as an entrepreneur. He launched just as the GFC hit, and battled to find investors to get Livescribe off the ground. But after 5 years- and one million smartpen sales- his company is at the forefront of the market. Here’s how he did it.

In 2001, 22-year-old finance student Fred Schebesta co-founded digital agency Freestyle Media, growing the business into a successful media agency which sold for $1.3 million just a few years later. Here, the young entrepreneur talks about the importance of learning from your mistakes, first time around.

Coconut water is the latest trend sweeping the country, and a trio of Aussie entrepreneurs are taking the market by storm with their wholly organic product and some savvy celebrity endorsements from the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio.

Daniel Jarosch knew Aussie consumers were ready to shop online, so he ignored all the naysayers and launched brandsExclusive in 2008 and went on to found Spreets and StyleTread. Now, this online entrepreneur is sharing his eCommerce secrets in this week’s Friday Entrepreneur Fix.

Your Friday Entrepreneur Fix features Luke Mangan, the well-known Aussie chef with a head for business and an entrepreneurial streak.

Sixty high-achieving entrepreneurs have been nominated in the 2012 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year awards, including former Dynamic Business cover stars Simon Crowe and Paris Cutler.