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Self-Made Entrepreneurs |
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As a divorced mother living without electricity, Roxanne Quimby teamed up with Burt Shavitz, a reclusive beekeeper in 1984, and began selling items made from beeswax. Since then, she's built Burt's Bees from a craft business into a leading natural personal-care brand. |
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