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Melbourne-based business KeepCup, founded by brother and sister team Abigail Forsyth and Jamie Forsyth launched its re-usable coffee cup just over 12 months ago and has already sold more than 300,000 units, which retail from $12. 
Alec Lynch is the chief executive of leading crowdsourcing site Design Crowd.
Where there’s muck, there’s money. Just ask Angus Irwin, founder and managing director of South Australian fertiliser company Neutrog Australia, which is one of Australia’s largest producers of organic fertiliser, turning over more than $11 million a year.
Today we are talking with Mimmo Lubrano, the chief of NSW-based food company Sandhurst Foods. The company, which has turnover of over $30 million, started out as a hobby but has ridden the gourmet food boom to post impressive growth in the past decade.
Today we are talking with Ben Ashton, chief executive of fast-growing IT business Gizmo, which provides technology installation and repair services to households. The company more than doubled revenue to $7.5 million last year and has just introduced a new internet filter service that allows parents to control what their kids see online.
Today we are talking with Louise Schultze, founder of online marketplace iBidAM.com, which helps connect SMEs with Australian suppliers of advertising and marketing services. The site, which was started in early 2008, was recently valued at $10 million and is now hunting for investors to help fund overseas expansion.
Today we are talking with Jim Myatt, chief executive and founder of small energy retailer Australian Power & Gas. In just two years the company has signed up more than 140,000 residential customers in Victoria, with revenue set to jump from $72 million in 2008-09 to $135 million in 2009-10.
Two years ago, Sue Ismiel, the founder of skin care products company Nad's, was in serious trouble. Her decision to take a break from running the business and appoint a CEO had ended disastrously, with Ismeil forced to take back control of the day-to-day running of the company and bring it back from the brink. But Ismiel has fought back, and is now planning a new growth phase that will see Nad's use a bold franchising strategy.
Mortgage broking franchise Smartline was recently named franchise of the year by market research company 10Thousand Feet, which surveys franchisees to determine which system has the most satisfied franchisees.