Sandy Lerner

Sandra Lerner is, with her ex-husband Leonard Bosack, co-founder of Cisco Systems. Sandra Lerner is entrepreneurs known for starting networking powerhouse Cisco Systems, along with then-husband Leonard Bosack, she also has these accomplishments to her credit:

- She wrote her business plan on the back of her business card. "Cisco networks networks." She was the first person to ever pose nude (pictured) for a financial magazine -- this pic appeared in Forbes, and boy is it hard to find.

- After hitting a brick wall in relationships with other Cisco board members, she used her stock earnings to found another start-up, Urban Decay Cosmetics, with the tag line "does pink make you puke?"

- She's pumped a lot of money into the restoration of the Jane Austen family dwelling Chawton House, making it a center for the study of English women's writing. Here's to one of the most unusual and fascinating entrepreneurs ever.