As reality television has shown us, the beauty world can be an ugly business - Camille Howard talks to an entrepreneur who kept her focus on enhancing beauty and turned a pet project into a global phenomenon.

Simon Crowe always knew he wanted to run his own business - taking educational detours along the way, he’s on track to making the Grill’d name synonymous not only with guilt-free healthy burgers, but also a devoted workforce - By Cameron Bayley

One Australian business that’s taken innovative steps to develop their exports is aussieBum. It’s the cheeky Australian brand taking on the global market for men’s fashion, from the bottom up. Founder, Sean Ashby, is so confident of ongoing success he believes it’ll be the next Quicksilver or Victoria’s Secret on the scale of world brands.

What does it take to be an entrepreneur? These big success stories are as different as the people who made them happen, but they do share some crucial qualities. We take a look at 50 of our favourites, to find out what makes them entrepreneurial.

What’s the difference between a manager and an entrepreneur? Cameron Cooper takes notes from high flyers, and finds strange contradictions in stats ranking Australia’s place in the entrepreneurial world.

He’s Australia’s mortgage magician who, in less than a decade, built a small home lending business into a behemoth turning over hundreds of millions of dollars. Camille Howard talks to Mark Bouris, the marketing genius behind Wizard Home Loans.

We all enjoy a good adrenalin rush, but we don’t all make a multi-million dollar business out of it - Rebecca Spicer talks to the founders of Adrenalin, an adventure company started 15 years ago for a bit of fun. Though Phil James, Brett Kennedy and Brett Sheridan wear shorts and sometimes no shoes in the office, their success has gone way beyond casual.

His Communique Television Company may seem a long way from the steak knives he is most remembered for, but Tim Shaw’s experience in selling on those famous infomercials makes him the perfect candidate for sales and marketing advice for SMEs. Camille Howard reports.

With an innovative idea and a commitment to making a difference, Linda Lowndes is changing the lives of people from all over the world with her Microskin system. Rebecca Spicer tracks the highs and lows of this journey to entrepreneurial success.

From a shed they could hardly afford to build, business woman Margot Spalding and her family built a furniture business that now turns over $25 million annually.