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Fedele Crisci from Sit Down Comedy Club
Who: Fedele Crisci from The Sit Down Comedy Club When: 7pm SHARP, Tuesday February 23rd 2010 Where: Greystone Bar, 7/166 Grey Street (Little Stanley Street) South Bank, BRISBANE RSVP: brisbane@thehive.org.au or on the Facebook event. Cost: FREE! The Sit Down Comedy Club Founded Comedy Club with Business Partners at age 21 Now boasts 20+ venues [...]
John O’Brien from PoolWerx
Who: John O’Brien, founder of PoolWerx When: 7pm, November 24th 2009 Where: Star Cafe Bar, 166 Grey St (Little Stanley St) South Bank, BRISBANE RSVP: brisbane@thehive.org.au or RSVP through the Facebook Event. PoolWerx – Pool & Spa Care* An Icon of Australian Franchising * Australian Franchisee of the Year, Master Franchisee of the Year and [...]
Martin Duncan from Freestyle Tout – Desert Cafe’s
Freestyle Tout – Desert Cafe’s Martin Duncan opened the original Freestyle Tout 13 years ago in Rosalie (tout meaning everything or all), as a gallery and florist with coffee and dessert. Since its inception, Freestyle Tout has grown into a dessert café with an iconic reputation throughout Brisbane and Australia. www.freestyletout.com.au In December 2004, Martin [...]
Alborz Fallah from CarAdvice.com.au
Started CarAdvice as a blog with $35 Now Employs 10 staff Largest Independent Auto website in Australia Having made his first $250 at the age of 12 from selling advertising on his hobby website, Alborz spent the next 10 years running over 20 different websites, a webdesign company and even an internet cafe. He finally [...]
Mike O’Hagan from MiniMovers
Mike O’Hagan – Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2004 & 2007. Started MiniMovers with just $200 and a Ute. Annual turnover now exceeds $30million employing 400+ staff. After being raised on a Dairy Farm in New Zealand, at the age of 18 Mike arrived in Australia with a few hundred dollars in his [...]
Luke Slattery, co-founder of Movember
August 18th 2009 Movember is an entrepreneurial movement that raises money to for prostate cancer and male depression through its participants (Mo Bros and Mo Sistas), by bringing back the ‘Mo’ to generate awareness of two life-threatening diseases which are almost taboo to talk about among most Australian males due to cultural stigma. Since its [...]
David Milne from Noodle Box
David Milne from Noodle Box July 28th 2009 It’s been thirteen years since Noodle Box’s doors first opened and the original noodles in a box are more popular than ever. Noodle Box now operates 72 stores nationwide and is the fastest growing noodle franchise in Australia. The company expects to open its 100th store in [...]
Michael Doneman from Edgeware
June 30th 2009 Have you ever wondered: What makes an Entrepreneur tick? Are Entrepreneurs natural born risk takers? Is there such a thing as Ethical Entrepreneurship? Is it normal for Entrepreneur’s to feel lonely? Michael Doneman, Director of Edgeware Creative Entrepreneurship will answer all these questions and many more for The Hive Brisbane on Tuesday, June [...]
Phillip Di Bella from Di Bella coffee
May 26th 2009. Ever wondered what it’s like to grow a business from scratch and wind up in BRW’s Fast 100 list two years in a row? Ever wondered what it takes to win Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year award? How about what it’s like to manage a company whose product is consumed [...]
Andrew Cooper from dStore.com.au
April 28th 2009. Hot off the success of Brisbane’s first ever event in March, The Hive team would like to introduce Andrew Cooper from dstore as April’s guest entrepreneur. Andrew’s background in online retailing spans the dot-com boom, the subsequent 2001 dot-bomb clean out and continues into the current period of resurgence. In 1998 Andrew and [...]
