Some entrepreneurs are making their mark in the world of small business over and over again.
When Marcia Kilgore arrived in New York City in 1987 and started work as a personal trainer, she had just $300 to her name and the backpack her mother had given her as a high school graduation gift.
More than two decades later, Kilgore, 41, has become a prolific innovator who sold her first company--the international spa chain Bliss--for a figure reportedly north of $30 million and went on to launch two more ventures: Soap and Glory, a purveyor of affordable beauty products currently sold at Target ( TGT - news - people ) in the U.S. and at other major stores in the U.K. and Canada, and FitFlops, which sells sandals that are designed to tone wearers' muscles. Oprah Winfrey touted FitFlops' virtues on her talk show in 2008 and they've been seen on many famous feet, with celebrity fans including Jessica Biel, Hilary Swank, Heidi Klum and Julianne Moore.
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Author: Jessica Bruder
