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Best Young Entrepreneurs: The Top Vote Getters

By Nick Leiber and Stacy Perman

Best Young Entrepreneurs: The Top Vote Getters

Who are the country's most promising young entrepreneurs? With some help from our readers, we set out to answer that question in our fourth annual Best Entrepreneurs 25 and Under special report. As in previous years, we posted a nomination form online and asked readers to nominate youthful business whizzes who were running their own companies. After the call for nominations ended in late July, our staff sifted through the nominations to choose the 25 most impressive. In this we had help from some high-profile business personages: Virgin's Sir Richard Branson, BusinessWeek contributor and Duke University executive-in-residence Vivek Wadhwa, and the Kauffman Foundation's Bo Fishback. We posted profiles of the 25 finalists online and asked readers to vote for the most outstanding. Now (drumroll, please) the results are in. To see the five candidates who received the most votes, click on.