Puttyworld.com "Crazy Aaron" Muderick didn't intend to become an online business owner when he first started playing with putty at his job as a software engineer. But when the squishy ball he kept on his desk became the talk of the office, he saw the potential for...

Ken Chiarella makes a good, clean living by getting his hands dirty!It all started with a small shipment of soil-building garden worms that he ordered from an ad.And it probably would have ended there if the worms hadn't doubled and tripled their population! Suddenly Ken had far too many w...

Julie Swatek was five-and-a-half months pregnant when she got word that her job had been eliminated by a corporate merger.With a three-year-old at home and a chunk of her family's income missing, she knew she'd need to come up with a way to make money... but from home this time, since baby...

Al Carlton was just a gadget-loving guy when he first started blogging about his favorite online technology finds -- not a professional writer or longtime Internet entrepreneur. His formula was simple -- he wrote about stuff he loved, was generous with his ...

Dale Majors didn't start the company that would grow into Bikewagon.com with a business plan, a group of investors, or a wide selection of items to offer his customers. No, he was just looking to make a few extra bucks to buy stuff for his own bike! So he bought a box of used bike parts, a...

Jennifer Thoden was miserable.Her office job paid her well... but the long days left her exhausted, and extremely short on time with her young family. She knew there had to be a better way to live!She'd always dreamed of becoming her own boss, but she wasn't sure how to make her dream a re...