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Businesses We Love: How these four founders turned community into a competitive advantage

Pearl Bendle — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:36:37 +0000

From products born out of shared frustration to services shaped by direct customer feedback, these businesses show that community can be the most powerful driver for success.

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Businesses We Love: Madebox founder Samantha Finnegan on why gifting is a missed branding opportunity

Rebel Wylie — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 23:30:00 +0000

Corporate gifting is more than a nice gesture, says Madebox founder Samantha Finnegan. It's an opportunity to support Australian producers, strengthen relationships and tell a better business story.

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Businesses We Love: Brand Shout’s Owen Lynch on the difference between a good brand and a great one

Rebel Wylie — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 22:56:59 +0000

What separates a good brand from a great one? Brand Shout founder Owen Lynch shares his thoughts on creativity, growth, technology and helping businesses see new possibilities.

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Businesses We Love: How Green Knott is using insects to tackle Australia’s $36 billion food waste problem

Pearl Bendle — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 23:00:00 +0000

Green Knott founder Anthony Gabrielian is swapping landfill for larvae, using insects to turn food waste into something far more useful.

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Businesses We Love: Skanties’ Susie Taaffe on building an anti-shapewear brand balancing comfort and confidence

Pearl Bendle — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:00:00 +0000

Drawing on her engineering background, Skanties founder Susie Taaffe turned her search for comfortable underwear into a global brand challenging traditional shapewear.

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Businesses We Love: 10 questions with Kimberley Smith, the former elite athlete changing postpartum care

Rebel Wylie — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 23:30:00 +0000

After experiencing serious post-birth complications, Kimberley Smith founded Empowered Mother to help women access expert-led pregnancy and postpartum support from home.

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First he took on plastic water bottles. Now Frank Green’s Benjamin Young wants to end pallet wrap

Eloise Keating — Wed, 20 May 2026 01:18:41 +0000

The founder of Frank Green has developed a reusable system for securing pallets that eliminates the need for single-use plastic wrap.

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Gen Z and millennial entrepreneurs are thinking bigger – but it’s coming at a cost

Melanie Hearse — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 22:00:00 +0000

Australia’s youngest business owners are building faster, aiming higher and scaling earlier than any generation before them. But that ambition is coming with a growing risk.

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DOWNLOAD: What’s keeping business owners awake right now

SmartCompany — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 22:00:00 +0000

Download this ebook to see what’s really happening behind the scenes in SME land, and how simplification, smarter processes, and the right support could give business owners back the time and clarity they need to grow.

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The 17% mindset: What separates entrepreneurs who go global

SmartCompany — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 23:00:00 +0000

The question isn’t whether going global is hard – it’s how the founders who do it turn turbulence into a plan.

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