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Mathew Beeche is the driving force behind Shoe String Launch, a website and a free magazine that profiles Australian startups. The promotion runs hand-in-hand with a salesforce team that helps the startups get started. “I saw the opportunity to create a niche,” he says.

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Alistair McKendrick has poured his all into his three-year-old business, Exhibit Furniture. With a combination of intelligence, talent and resolve, McKendrick is building a strong future. The business designs, crafts, delivers and installs furniture made of reclaimed Australian hardwoods and other sustainable material.

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Our guess is there’s a whole lot of ‘Booyah!’ heard in the vicinity of Tapit Media’s Sydney offices right about now. The start-up, which specialises in new Near Field Communication (NFC), recently closed its seed funding round a diddy 22 days after pitching to Sydney Angels. So what is it about Tapit that makes investors part with their moola at breakneck speed?

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It started as a blog aimed at giving women advice about relationships and empowerment. It has grown into much more for Renee Wade. The site, dubbed The Feminine Woman, still doles out free advice on dating and the mysteries of men. But the advice now doubles as a marketing instrument for Wade’s pay-to-play programs.

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Michael Morgano’s auto-sales site, Car Genie, is still in its formative stages. But in one regard, it’s already in the fast lane. Morgano’s website secured a sponsorship with the Eggleston Motorsport team in the Fujitsu V8 Supercar series. That’s Morgano in the photo, posing proudly with the Car Genie decal on the Eggleston racecar. He earned the sponsorship in exchange for some IT work.

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Coming soon to the smartphone in your hand — Monster Truck Destruction, a game that emulates the look and feel of a full-blown video-console smash-’em-up. The action/racing/mayhem game is the creation of Up-and-Comer David O’Donoghue and the centerpiece of his new business, ODD Games.

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Anyone can readily accuse Ehon Chan’s “Soften the Fck Up” campaign of lacking subtlety and going for shock value, but that’s exactly the point. After all, he wants to save lives with it. The campaign chiefly addresses Australia’s rate of suicides — 80% of whom are men. The problem, says Chan, is that depression, drug addiction, domestic violence, etc., are issues that too many “tough blokes” are afraid to talk about honestly.

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Carl Taylor has been called an entrepreneur’s entrepreneur with good reason. In his ten-year career, the 25-year-old has bought, built up and sold three separate businesses. As the head of Bold Solutions, his business-buying and mentoring firm, Taylor understands the A to Z of profit, helping bricks-and-mortar companies achieve saleability in the shortest time possible.

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For Peter Salakas, the party is just getting started. Steady growth have been the bywords for Salakas and his older brother, Dean, since they bought the family business, The Party People, in 2007. Under their care, the party-supply retailer has expanded from four employees to more than 20.

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It’s been nearly a year since the world’s most popular social networking site launched Facebook Places, a mobile location-based feature that allows users to tell their friends where in the big wide world they are at any point in time. Now, Westfield is running an experimental program offering exclusive discounts to users who sign into Facebook Places at its outlets nationwide. The retailer is partnering with specialty firms including Angus & Coote and Cotton On for these “check-in” deals.

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