A Thousand Watts: Jonathan Lang
Extending your service offering is appealing but often comes at a price

Banditos: Doris And Kian Macrae
A couple turn their passion for chilli into a booming local and international business.

Beyond Outsourcing: Suzanne Ravenall
A former secretary breaks new ground with a pioneering outsourcing company

Bidorbuy: Andy Higgins
Bidorbuy has more than 1,1 million unique visitors, around 700 000 items for sale and 80 000 successful sales every month. Not bad for a business that had its origins on the floor of a London flat, bombed in the dot.com crash and survived the local Internet drought.

Bizcommunity: Andre Rademan and Ken van Ginkel
The founders of Bizcommunity spotted a gap in the market and created an online success story. You’d be hard-pressed to find anyone in South Africa’s marketing, advertising and media sectors who is not a subscriber. With more than 3,4 million page views per month, it’s the go-to portal for everybody who wants to know what’s happening in these industries.

By Word of Mouth: Karen Short
Now an industry trendsetter, By Word of Mouth had humble beginnings. Founder Karen Short started the company with little more than R200 and a passion for great food and service excellence.

Capsicum Culinary Studio: Cheryl Nesbitt
Cheryl Nesbitt used a recipe of innovation, pooled resources, marketing suss and good old-fashioned research and planning to open a market-leading chef school.

Centurion Systems: Patrick Dickens
From a garden hut to an industry leader, Centurion Systems is a prime example of start-up success.

Chillibush: Dale Hefer
Dale Hefer shares successes and lessons learned in the rise of advertising and media company Chillibush.

Colmant Cap Classique: Jean-Philippe Colmant
An entrepreneur proves that it’s possible to change direction half-way through life and achieve business success in an unknown industry.

Drug Detectives: Dr Andrew Nathaniel And Andreas Roussos
Two partners use innovative new technology to develop and market a unique world-first drug detection product.

i5 Technology: Glen Ansell
A young entrepreneur grows a global company that started out as a work-from-home deploying Microsoft CRM solutions.

IncuBeta: Vinny Lingham
IncuBeta founder, Vinny Lingham, is riding a wave of cyber success, thanks to his innovations in e-marketing.

Instant Button: Monique Robinson
Innovation, hard work and a keen eye for opportunity brings success to the woman behind the Instant Button.

Joe Public Advertising Agency: Gareth Leck & Pepe Marais
A start-up agency enjoys growth and accolades by being able to adapt to the changing needs of the market.

KreditInform: Ivor Jones
It’s tempting to undercut your competitors and it’s a strategy that can yield great dividends – but not indefinitely.

Moshomo Bashumi Consultants: Tumi Magakwa
Professional sales skills prove to be the difference between success and failure

Motion: Brett Furlong
Google a company called Motion and you’ll find news articles with headlines declaring “massive growth” and interviews recounting how Motion aggressively penetrated an already saturated market. Yet type in the URL and the website of the company – once billed as South Africa’s largest multibrand office automation supplier – and it cannot be displayed. Motion, which in September this year had 350 employees and 13 offices nationwide, is no more. Entrepreneur investigates what went wrong

Murray & Roberts: Brian Bruce
The inside story of how the clear strategy and decisive leadership of Brian Bruce saved Murray & Roberts from near collapse.

Prosopa Restaurant: Dino Fagas
Opening an independently-owned restaurant is one of the toughest and most rewarding options

Rogz: Paul Fuller And Irene Raubenheimer
Two Cape Town entrepreneurs take the export market by storm with a hip brand of pet accessories.

The Lapdesk Company: Shane Immelman
An entrepreneur uses an innovative product to show it’s possible to make a profit – and make a difference.