Owen Batt

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News and interviews on Owen Batt including trends, features, blogs and community conversations from an Australian business perspective.

Tuesday, 26 May 2009

Adam Rockett and Chris Ryan

These two entrepreneurs (Rockett on the right) met and became good friends in high school, going on to establish a business distributing wine during their time at university in Brisbane.
 

Andrew Northcott

Andrew Northcott started labour hire business Labour Solutions Australia in 2004 at the age of 21 by hiring himself out as a labourer.
 

Andy Jamieson

Jamieson was born to be an entrepreneur, he says. Every one of his family members started a business, so it was only a matter of time before he ventured into small business ownership himself.
 

Ben Keighran

San Francisco-based internet entrepreneur Ben Keighran was listed on last year's BRW Rich 200 with a fortune of $28 million.
 

Alana Chang and Lauren Chang Sommer

Alana Chang and Lauren Chang Sommer have turned their four-year-old company Moi Moi Fine Jewellery into a multimillion dollar business.
 

Daniel Monheit and Justin Kabbani

Daniel Monheit and Justin Kabbani have concentrated on a smaller number of high-value clients to quickly grow their digital media agency Hard Hat Digital into a thriving enterprise.
 

Daniel Tzvetkoff

Daniel Tzvetkoff, co-founder of internet billing company Intabill, shot to prominence in early 2008 when he paid $28 million for a house on the Gold Coast.
 

David Hancock

David Hancock's company, Geeks2U, is now Australia's largest provider of onsite computer repairs and technology support.
 

Dean Ramler

Dean Ramler decided to sell discount furniture online after visiting Milan and discovering replicas of famous furniture pieces were too expensive, and equally hard to find.
 

Fred Schebesta

Fred Schebesta started young, moving into the digital marketing sector in 2001 when the internet, and particularly search engine marketing, was just beginning to take off.
 

Katie Patrick

Katie Patrick started with a vision of growing the green products and services sector by putting suppliers in touch with a widening group of customers.
 

Leon Hayes

Leon Hayes's website, switchselect.com, aggregates deals offered by gas and electricity companies and allows users to find a cheaper deal to which a user is signed.
 

Luke Berry

Luke Berry started his business in 2004 importing novelty items such as talking urinal cakes.
 

Marcus Sellen

Marcus Sellen was just 24 when he founded the company now known as Selmar Institute of Education.
 

Nathan Aherne

Nathan Ahern was working as business systems analyst when he made a discovery - most IT service providers just weren't up to the job.
 

Nick Armstrong

Nick Armstrong started his first green company, a photovoltaic project developer called EcoSolar, in 2003, and saw a clear need for greater support for the green sector.
 

Nick Crocker and Ben Johnson

Nick Crocker and Ben Johnson formed the digital strategy agency Native Digital in 2008 to explore the intersections between the internet and entertainment.
 

Nick Holmes a Court

Social media is the hottest topic within the digital marketing industry today, so it's no surprise that it is spawning a host of new agencies to help clients come to grips with blogging, Facebook and Twitter.
 

Owen Batt

Smartpath co-founder Owen Batt and business partner David Hodges built a business by finding something that its clients hated doing.
 

Robert Castaneda

Robert Castaneda started CustomWare in July 2001, just before he left university.
 
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