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Pip Martin's love affair with wine prompted him to go it alone with The Wine Adventure - a successful tasting company
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Janet Shelley has taken on the male-dominated building industry and now employs the UK's largest female construction workforce
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Straight from the Dragon’s Den, Yo! Sushi founder Simon Woodroffe talks exclusively, on camera, about his successes.
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Colin Tweedy, CEO of Arts and Business, talks about the upcoming awards and why small businesses shoud sponsor the arts
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In eight years, Mark Herbert has expanded his IT startup InTy into a global operation with a quarter of a million customers.
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Jonathan Duffy's love of sailing inspired him to set up a UK arm of SailTime, a successful yacht-sharing business.
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After realising there was a gap in the market for quality wedding stationery, Annabelle Hamilton has seen her business grow and grow
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Salma Rana realised there was a gap in the market for a women's football website. She's since scored a spectacular success with FemaleSOCCER.net.
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Tai Broadhurst explains how her Startups Award-winning business has toyed with success
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Chelsey Baker's varied career has seen her be a model, financial trader and actress. She is now building a mini TV empire. She tells us how.
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Ashley Wheaton explains how he fulfilled a 20-year dream by starting up leading skills firm Infobasis
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Amin Saleem explains how his online car auction business has steered its way to success
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The inventor/entrepreneur talks to Startups.co.uk about his career and how to best protect that winning idea
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If awards were given for happy staff, Feel Good Drinks would be a shoe-in. Co-founder David Wallwork explains why the firm has a smile on its face
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Adrian Reeves rode the dot.com storm to make a huge success of website provider Sitewizard.co.uk
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The Richer Sounds founder talks to Startups.co.uk about his career and entrepreneurship
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Gemma Stone's redundancy laid the foundations of Rock and Ruby, one the UK's brightest event management firms
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Gary Nicholson always wanted to be his own boss. Now his business is going from strength to strength.
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John Kearon decided to stop thinking up great ideas for other companies and set up BrainJuicer, his own online market research firm
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The ASOS founder talks about fashion, celebrities and making it big online
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Eric Guilloteau left his job at BT to woo investors and create Corizon, a software product company
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Following a stillbirth, Pat Moores was frustrated at the lack of honest information on parenting. So she set up her own website, to stunning success.
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Sally Preston overcame a series of setbacks to launch Babylicious. She tells Startups.co.uk how she did it.
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Farmer's wife Sally Robinson braved her family's disapproval to set up successful online bra business Ample Bosom
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The founder of Toptable.co.uk talks to Startups.co.uk about finding a recipe for success
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Steve Pankhurst, the co-founder of Friends Reunited, talks about the amazing rise of the famous website
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Overcoming a lack of funding and negative attitudes, Penny Streeter has built up a £60 million business
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The entrepreneurial whizz-kid talks to Startups.co.uk about his amazing rise to success.
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Arriving in the UK just eight years ago from her native Lithuania, Jurga Zilinskiene has a thriving translation business with over 200 clients
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There's nothing fishy about this company's rise to the top
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The head of Employer Training Pilots at the Learning and Skills Council tells Startups.co.uk what small firms can get out of the scheme
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Innocent has succeeded where virtually every nutritionist has failed: making fruit fun and being healthy easy. Co-founder Richard Reed chats over drinks (his of course).
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Rocky Mirza is an entrepreneurial heavyweight. Before launching iBETX, an online betting exchange, he'd had several other online ventures and has plans for more. He talked to Startups.co.uk about launching on iBETX and shared a few hot tips for those of you that fancy a flutter!
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The sharp-suited fashion entrepreneur talks to Startups.co.uk
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The small business minister talks to Startups.co.uk about red tape and what the future hold for small firms
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The Federation of Small Businesses chairman talks to Startups.co.uk
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The shadow trade and industry secretary talks to Startups.co.uk
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Andrew Black, co-founder of Betfair.com, talks to Startups.co.uk about the gamble that paid off
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The TUC chief talks to Startups about unions and small business
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Coffee-to-go has been an instant success for Martyn Dawes
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The Body Shop entrepreneur talks to Startups.co.uk
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Margaret Thatcher press man turned BFA president talks to Startups
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Who is he? Where did he come from? What does he do?
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The easyJet entrepreneur tells Startups.co.uk what it takes
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How this succesful sandwhich shop filled up a gap in the market
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How one idea translated into a big success, and how a good research helped cement that success
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From bus conductor to high street sushi king, Simon Woodroffe reveals all
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This husband and wife team has been helping the public to a more stylish bedtime since 1994
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David Charlton exemplifies the entrepreneurs’ dictum: if at first you don’t succeed, try and try again
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Tom Bloxham single-handedly kick-started the loft living boom that has transformed the once grim and grimy centres of the cities of north west England
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Jukes Leaver & Tim Slade started off selling t-shirts at ski resorts, now they're turning over £25 million
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Stephen Waring's first office was in the back of his Ford Sierra, but has since seen his business blossom
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Harry Cragoe reveals how to sample the taste of success
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Andrew Gerrie talks about Lush's rise to the top
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Discover how the success of Bravissimo caught its founder, Sarah Tremellen, unprepared
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How Karan Bilimoria carved a niche in 'beer and curry' culture
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Michael Welch's tyre firm got his big name rivals into a spin while he was barely into his 20s. He tells us how he did it
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James Minter turned an unused London building into an entrepreneurs club with a difference. He tells us how
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A 16-year-old entrepreneur in the media glare, Oliver Bridge is keeping his feet on the ground
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While working in the catering trade, Lucy decided to go it alone. His group of restaurants are now worth £9 million.
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Ajmail and Sudarghara Dusanj are hoping to toast success in their battle against the beer giants
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Karina Thomsen and David Wall have transported success across the North Sea with their business discount firm
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Alpa Saujani's idea of playing cupid for Asian professionals led to a business set up with real passion - the Tantric Club
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Russell Lux went from selling PCs to fellow students at university to running a multi-million pound IT firm
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Simon Purchall's cracked teeth led to the formation of a business - with a little help from a country over 1,000 miles from the UK
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Zubeir Mukri's deliberate approach, alongside business partner Chris Bint, has helped his email marketing firm flourish
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Andrew Valentine and Brett Akker found success by starting up a car rental business with a twist
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