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How the power players do it - by Fortune editor at large Patricia Sellers
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Fortune's most promising women entrepreneurs

By September 13, 2011: 1:28 PM ET

Fortune's editors have chosen the 2011 Fortune Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs. From a pool of 131 applicants, we've selected (not easily) 10 extraordinary innovators, game-changers and groundbreakers whose startups generated $1 million to $25 million in annual revenue last year--but appear poised to become large and global businesses.

That is, these women could be on the Fortune Most Powerful Women in Business list someday. (This year's U.S. and international rankings will be out September 29.)

Well on their way, the 2011 MPW Entrepreneurs are hereby part of the MPW community. These 10 female founders listed below will be our guests at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, October 3-5 in Laguna Niguel, California. Besides hanging with Fortune 500 CEOs like Indra Nooyi of PepsiCo (PEP) and Ellen Kullman of DuPont (DD), they'll meet well-known entrepreneurs like Arianna Huffington (AOL), Tyra Banks, Tory Burch, Chelsea Handler—and Warren Buffett too. Many people forget that Buffett built Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA), once a small textile manufacturer, into a company that is now No. 7 on the Fortune 500. Buffett, the Summit's honorary male guest, dishes out good advice to the business-builders in all of us each year. No matter who you are or what you do, as he says, "Think like an owner."

Keep reading Postcards and checking FortuneMPW on Facebook to learn about these 2011 MPW Entrepreneurs--and more about the MPW community.

• Miranda Bouldin, Logicore http://www.logicorehsv.com

• Sue Chen, Nova Medical Products http://www.novamedicalproducts.com

• Jane Friedman, Open Road Integrated Media http://www.openroadmedia.com

• Jennifer Hyman and Jennifer Fleiss, Rent the Runway http://www.renttherunway.com

• Dawn Halfaker, Halfaker & Associates http://www.halfaker.com

• Clara Shih, Hearsay http://www.hearsaysocial.com

• Kara Goldin, Hint Inc. http://www.drinkhint.com

• Kimberley Graham-Nye, gDiapers http://www.gDiapers.com

• Katrina Markoff, Vosges Chocolate http://www.vosgeschocolate.com

• Demet Mutlu, Trendyol http://www.trendyol.com

Click here to see the 2010 and 2009 Fortune MPW Entrepreneurs.

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Pattie Sellers
Patricia Sellers
Editor at Large, Fortune

Pattie Sellers has written some of Fortune's most talked-about cover stories, including "Oprah's Next Act," "Can Meg Whitman Save California?" "The $100 Billion Woman" (Melinda Gates), "MySpace Cowboys," Martha Stewart ("I cannot be destroyed"), Ted Turner ("Gone with the Wind") and Oprah Winfrey ("Oprah Inc."). Since its launch in 1998, Pattie has helped oversee Fortune's "Most Powerful Women" cover package.
A specialist at dissecting larger-than-life personalities, she has also profiled former U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, Morgan Stanley chairman John Mack, and countless CEOs.
Pattie co-chairs the annual Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, the preeminent gathering of women leaders in business, philanthropy, government, academia, and the arts. She started at Fortune in 1984, covering the big brand companies.
In Pattie's blog, Postcards, she provides insight into the lives of super-achievers through commentary, career advice, and Guest Posts by CEOs and other leaders.

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