Anthill Magazine

They narrowly missed out on a place in the Top 30 but are still hot in our books. Introducing Anthill’s 2010 30under30 Honourable Mentions.

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Real-estate entrepreneurs have never featured strongly in the 30under30. In our opinions, entrepreneurship is not about personal wealth creation. It’s about the process of creation itself! This year, three real-estate entrepreneurs grabbed our attention, not because of the number of Torrens Titles stashed under their beds, but because each has built a business around the real-estate industry at a tender age.

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Entrepreneurship and artistic endeavours have much in common. They involve imagination, following your dreams and creating something from scratch designed to make the world a richer place. These three “artistic” entrepreneurs may not have made it into the 30under30 Top 30, but we decided they deserve a place in this year’s broader gallery for their commercial creativity.

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Gary Berman’s ubid4rooms.com allows people to bid for deeply discounted rooms at hotels across Australia and in New Zealand. More than 1,000 properties are listed on the site — from B&Bs to resorts and everything in between. Who says that dotcoms are a Gen Y game?

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Breed Lewis’ entrepreneurial rebirth happened after she was retrenched in 2009. She took advantage of her over-55 status and started drawing her superannuation while firing up her new business. “Others may have felt like a victim being retrenched at that age, but I felt it was my lucky break,” she says.

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Rebound Discs, launched in 2009, is far from a side job for 60-year-old John Maher. It was borne of necessity. Unable to work regularly since 1993, when he was severely injured in a fatal vehicle accident, Maher says, “Entrepreneurship was my only option.” His business is now endorsed by Kelvin Kerkow, Australian lawn bowl gold medalist at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, and recently secured a deal to manage the worldwide distribution of his product.

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Sally Arnold feels the music. It flows around her and through her, syncopating the tempo of her life. So, as she entered the homestretch of her fifth decade on this planet, Arnold decided to form a company that would combine her business and arts backgrounds in a unique way.

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Starting any company in deep in the midst of the global financial nosedive is no mean feat. Spawning a business that employs 18 people and pulls in $200,000 in monthly revenue after only 17 months of existence is a jaw-dropper. Fellow Anthillians, meet 61-year old entrepreneur Peter Murphy and his first ever entrepreneurial venture, Stonebridge Systems.

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Ben Neumann prefers to measure his company’s progress by the glass. When the business started in 2005, he was fortunate to book two functions a week and serve about 200 cocktails a month. Today, his bartenders are pouring up to 5,000 cocktails a week and more than 250,000 a year.

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Sebastien Eckersley-Maslin launched a blog and announced on it that he would create a fully formed business in seven days with only $500. Then he did it. The result was AutoCarLog. Yet, Sebastien doesn’t even consider the one-business-in-seven-days caper his best buzz builder. No, that would be when he traveled to six countries in 12 days to launch a global brand, in a bid to be listed in the Guinness record book as the “smallest multinational.”

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