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Sarah Mcvitte is becoming one of the country’s top female entrepreneurs. Quitting her high flying city job to set up a question and answer SMS service based in the UK, known as Texperts. This mobile search service proves that you do not have to be a business veteran to be an internet entrepreneur.

Letizia Tufari was working at a high paid job at Pfizer’s after getting her business degree from Warwick University. However, career driven Letizla set up a money making business with her mother Anna Venturi. Venturi’s Kitchen is the UK’s only dedicated corporate cookery centre, custom built to provide fun cookery experiences for groups of business professionals.

Karen Hantonfounded Toptable in 2000 for restaurant owners to advertise their venues and book customers directly. This online restaurant booker covers the UK as well as major cities in Europe and New York City. Toptable sat over 1.5 million customers in 2006 when it completed its first full year.

Hermione Wayis just 24 and originally studied a journalism degree; she found her true calling as another entrepreneur who spans the media and technology industries. She founded Newspepper.com, which provides internet video and social media news reporting for clients, and Techfluff.TV, which provides tech news in a lightweight, jargon free format.

Introducing the top 10 female and male entrepreneurs on the business scene at the moment. These talented career driven entrepreneurs started off with just an idea, which then led to what would be there own small business venture. Find out their secrets to success and how to get to the top.

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Kieran O’neill is a 22-year-old serial web entrepreneur and Co-Founder/CEO of Playfire.com, which is the fast growing social network for gamers. Playfire is a social gaming networking website targeted towards gamers. It was founded in 2007 and currently has more than 245,000 users and more than 40,000 game titles on every conceivable gaming platform.

Natalie Massenet started off as a fashion editor at women’s wear daily, later moving to Tatler. Founding Net-a-porter.com in 2000, which is an online boutique based in London that sells serious brands to cash-rich, time-poor fashionistas. Natalie found a perfect niche in the cut throat world of fashion with Net-a-porter providing slick service and a website that mixes editorial with clothes for sales..

Alki David is a digital media entrepreneur notable for his early adoption of social media as a marketing vehicle, such as his owned and operated site FilmOn. FilmOn is a video on demand website which is an extension to his 111pix distribution venture that makes video content available through several delivering methods.

Wilfred Emmanuel Jones describes himself as ‘a poor boy, done good’ launching a range of Gluten free food including 100% British meat. The brand The Black Farmer was born in 2004. Wilfred not only created this range of food products but he is also a prospective conservative party candidate for the Chippenham constituency.

Rajeeb Dey is the 24-year-old Founder & CEO of Enternships.com. Enternships provides ambitious and dynamic students and graduates with an opportunity to learn about business and enterprise through work placements in entrepreneurial and innovative environments, from start-ups to global venture funds around the world. Enternships was pioneered in association with Oxford Entrepreneurs, a student-run society at Oxford University that encourages and supports student entrepreneurship and is one of the largest in Europe.

Chris Dawson is a self-made retailer who has an unmatched eye for a bargain. Nicknamed ‘Plymouth’s very own deluxe Del Boy’ and with nearly 40 stores to his name now, Dawson has branched out, adding a waste-management business to his portfolio, which also includes online sales, a shop fitting company, insurance, a low-cost energy service and property interests in the south of France. He opened his first The Range store in 1988 and has not looked back since. The Range is a British home retail chain for a range of home, garden and leisure things. There are 49 stores across the United Kingdom.

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