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The founders of Bronze Snake had to wait five years from when they first started Bronze Snake to make a wage payment. “Never give up,” they say of the fast fashion business’ slow start.

Like a number of other companies in this year’s Smart50 Awards, the rollout of the National Broadband Network has been a game changer for Universal Communications Group.

Simon Crowther wants to create a $1 billion company. As the chief executive of Australian aerial mapping provider Nearmap, which turned over $21 million in the 2013-14 financial year, Crowther says it is a goal he thinks he can achieve within the next three years.

Anna Carosa and Stewart Koziora were successful entrepreneurs in their own right before they met, married and launched their own business in 2007.

It was Edward Lakman’s own search to buy a pair of sunglasses online from an Australian business that led him to establish iframes, a pure-play online store dedicated to selling quality glasses at affordable prices.

Brendan Torazzi describes himself as a serial entrepreneur. As a teenager, Torazzi started a business promoting bands and, while at university, he founded a translation agency that he operated for 10 years before selling it. After a few years travelling with his wife, he helped launch a fashion business in Sydney before trying his hand at bringing Metro sleep pods out to Australia.

Blair Milnes says he still feels the home ventilation company he founded with his two good friends four years ago is in “startup mode”, despite now employing 80 staff members and growing to a network of eight franchises.

There are no meeting rooms at the Manly offices of Lighthouse8, the digital strategy and management consultancy that has secured the 10th spot on this year’s Smart50 list.

There’s no exit plan and “no way” the mates, who met at high school, would sell up.For Glen Carlson and Daniel Priestley, their business, Key Person of Influence (part of their overarching Entrevo business), is a labour of love.

Chances are your mobile phone has an app on it designed by Outware Mobile. The business founded by Eytan Lenko, Daniel Gorog and Gideon Kowadlo less than five years ago has created a big impact in a short space of time, creating apps for ANZ, Telstra, Sportsbet and nib.

Erica Stewart and Trudi Jenkins’ background working for glossy magazines was the perfect training for opening up curated online marketplace HardToFind.

AussieCommerce, parent company of DEALS.com.au, has powered up this year’s Smart50 list moving from ninth place to sixth place as a result of the online juggernaut’s exponential growth.