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World Service,05 Jan 2011,18 mins

Entrepreneurs' tales

Business Daily

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Can entrepreneurs provide the economic growth the world needs right now? Lesley Curwen discusses this with Brent Hoberman, co-founder of Lastminute.com and Icelandic businesswoman Sigrun Lilja Gudjonsdottir. Plus the BBC's Jonathan Frewin interviews dotcom pioneer Jason Calacanis who created a business commercialising blogs, about how selling it for a fortune made him cry. And Lesley Curwen talks to James Caan, the British Pakistani entrepreneur and star of TV's Dragon's Den, about how he worked seven days a week to get started in business.

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