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16 December 2013 Last updated at 08:36

Making a splash The fashion designer whose love of bright colours helped her stand out Agatha Ruiz de la Prada

Obsessed by seaweed How an unusual passion led to a successful business Rosaria Piseri and seaweed

Sweet success Bees provide the key ingredient for Greek cosmetics firm Cosmetic products

Slam dunk Basketball 'taught me to be a team player' Weili Dai playing basketball

Serial entrepreneur 'I'm addicted to the excitement of building teams' Judy Estrin

App Store exit The mobile phone game that survived falling off Apple's platform game played on mobile phone

Running errands How buying dog food inspired entrepreneur Taskrabbit logo

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