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"Farmers are important, because they are the ones who provide food for the other people," she says. "If there are no farmers, there will be no food."

Maudemo, Timor-Leste | Photographer: Rodney Dekker 

The second edition of "The Other Hundred" focuses on the world's everyday entrepreneurs. The book offers an alternative to the view that most successful entrepreneurs were trained at elite business schools. Here are people who have never written a formal business plan, hired an investment bank, planned an exit strategy or dreamt of a stock market floatation. Find out more about the upcoming third edition, "The Other Hundred Educators," here.

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