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Tuesday, 27 January 2009
Recession’s rich pickings
This might not seem like the best time to start building a fortune, but a surprising number of businesses were born during the early 1990s recession. We've found 10 wealthy entrepreneurs who started making a bundle when things looked very bad.
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