2013’s Hot 30 Under 30: 26-30

Alec Lynch Company: DesignCrowd Age: 29

Lynch created online marketplace DesignCrowd in 2008. Providing consumers with graphic designers from all over the world, DesignCrowd gives business owners access to a diverse range of talent.

Business owners can post the required jobs online and will typically receive about 50 design proposals from graphic designers.

2013 has been a big year for Lynch and DesignCrowd, with the company now boasting over 100,000 contributing designers. This figure means the business has doubled in size in the past year.

Since January, DesignCrowd has market places in India, Singapore, Australia, United States, Canada, United Kingdom and New Zealand.

The definition of a family business – Nu-Tank was started by Kaylee Boccalatte, her husband Wesley and her brother Stephen Trail.

The trio of third generation manufacturers discovered a niche in the market for heavy duty, reliable water tanks and exploited it.

Found in 2008, Nu-Tank’s founders have revolutionised the water tank business, developing and implementing an alternative to brass fittings that are prone to cracking and splitting. The poly-fusion fittings are fused onto the tank, eradicating problems with weak spots and providing the tank with extra strength.

“Nu-Tank has continued to grow, increasing our product lines and expanding our supply Queensland wide,” says co-founder Kaylee Boccalatte.

“We are now supplying our local Masters store amongst many other valuable suppliers.”

Jonathan Barouch Company: Local Measure Age: 30

Barouch transformed his app Roamz into Local Measure, a B2B app providing bricks-and-mortar real time analytical data and customer feedback.

The app is proving popular with retail chains, hotels and restaurants, allowing them to engage with clients. Feedback from businesses who loved the capabilities of Roamz allowed Barouch to realise the real value of the app was in its business tools.

“Our app was really valuable to them. As such, a little over two months ago we relaunched the same technology with a business facing website and we’ve had really great tractions securing both SMB clients and larger regional multi-store outlets”.

Barouch has been very busy and continues to stay so.

“We’re going to plough along with our current direction of bringing Local Measure to life. We’re getting good traction in Asia and have our first few businesses using our platform in Singapore.”

Philip Sondhu Company: Farmbuy Age: 30

Phil Sondhu grew up in the country, and his career has brought him back.

Sondhu is the creator of Farmbuy.com, which is the country’s largest online portal for rural land sales. He created the company after seeing a gap in the market for an online-based portal for country sales.

The site caters specifically to rural properties. There are even ways to search for weather and crop details.

But Farmbuy isn’t Sondhu’s only project. He’s worked on advertising partnerships with Carsales.com.au and is currently the Carsales group manager of industry display advertising.

Prior to Farmbuy, Sondhu was the general manager of Sitepointmarket.com.

Taylah Hasaballah Company: Tiger Temple Age: 19

Taylah Hasaballah is the co-founder of the social media based fashion enterprise Tiger Temple.

Hasaballah secured a grant from University of Queensland’s ilab Germinate Program to grow her “style hub” and she’s successfully created an online destination for the Australian street fashion scene, stocking both men’s and women’s clothes.

Hasaballah’s site integrates many different multimedia elements including a lookbook, blog and soundcloud “mix tapes” put together by Tiger Temple.

The site also profiles fashion designers and their designs can be purchased through the site. Hasaballah is also a fashion designer and features her own creations on the fashion “hub”.

To build the brand’s identity, Hasaballah runs competitions through her Tiger Temple’s social media sites and throws events and shows to increase the engagement with the local Brisbane community.

Established in 2012, Hasaballah wants Tiger Temple to represent “the girls on the street, the bloggers, the ‘it girls’ and the ones who dare to push the boundaries”.