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Fast, cool, classic cars

The super-exclusive, uber-exquisite and disgracefully expensive status car is the universal symbol of success. Everyone eventually succumbs to the allure of owning the smartest set of wheels money can buy.

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Cally Affleck’s mail order coffee business Boaters: What I wish I’d known

Former air hostess Cally Affleck and her husband Richard set up mail order coffee business Boaters in 1989 with £1,000.

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On the up…Great Guns Marketing

Liz Jackson launched her telemarketing business, Great Guns Marketing in 1998 with £5,000 from the Prince’s Trust. The business now has a turnover of £1.5 million, and has grown more than 40 per cent each year.

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Anne Glover: Leading lady

There’s a new hand on the tiller at the Old Boys’ Club (aka BVCA), the redoubtable Anne Glover.

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Karl Watkin: The lure of technology

Ideas man Karl Watkin is back - with an enthusiasm undimmed by a three-year bear market.