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Hafida Sarachi understands what it is to be a woman in a man’s world – her business HandyGirl is an all-female home repair and garden maintenance company. Hafida’s experiences with intimidating and unreliable tradesmen inspired her decision to take DIY into her own hands. Endless horror stories about women and older people being scammed by ‘rogue’ handymen got her thinking about how much more comfortable many people would feel with a women working in their home.

Alex Tew had an entrepreneurial idea in August 2005 to make some money to see him through university. Media interest in MillionDollarHomepage.com intensified from the launch of the site in September, and no-one was more surprised than Alex when he hit his $1 million target in just four and a half months

Christina Domecq is the CEO and co-founder of U.K.-based mobile tech success story SpinVox, which converts voicemails into text and email.

Before SpinVox took off and she was recognized as the United Kingdom’s young entrepreneur-of-the-year by Ernst and Young, Domecq was spending up to an hour a day listening to voicemails. Wouldn’t it be great, she wondered, if she could read her voicemails as texts during meetings?

Two years and £65 million ($128.4 million) in venture funding later, she and co-founder Daniel Moulton are expanding their original concept to include spoken SMS and blog technology. SpinVox already boasts more than 120,000 users in the U.K., and plans to announce deals with carriers in Spain, France, Germany, and the United States in early 2007.

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