Delight.com Tracey Tee and Lynda Keeler had some experience in e-commerce before they launched a project together... but they were more frustrated with it than anything else! They saw giant, anonymous businesses dominating the market, while smaller sites couldn't keep traffic comi...

EntertainmentEarth.comMore than 25 years ago, Aaron and Jason Labowitz got their first taste of the collectibles business as devoted seekers of Star Wars memorabilia. In fact, in the earliest days of the Internet, they founded a Usenet group dedicated to their shared obsession! But after ...

TheSlanketGary Clegg had no plans to become an Internet mogul as he sat shivering in his dorm room at the University of Maine. Rather, he wanted to find a way to keep warm that wouldn't prevent him from getting things done.Now, eleven years later, the ingenious solution he developed to sol...

Silas Lindenstein wasn't using his Theater Arts degree in his daily work life, but he had a shared dream with his wife of owning a theater of their own one day, along with a small store within their theater that would sell the kinds of gifts that playgoers, theater workers and drama junkie...

Jeffrey Braverman was just a freshman in college when he suggested that his family take their nut business online in 1999. A friend helped him build a basic site, and NutsOnline.com was born.But nuts had definitely been running in the family for years!His grandfather, "Poppy Sol" started s...

Michael Cramer was working in finance when a passion for something with a little more "flavor" took his life in a completely different direction!In 1999, he launched Adagio.com with his family with the dream of providing tea lovers everywhere with a source of premium products and brewing e...

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...

Gerald Prolman made a point of "being green" with his businesses long before most people were giving the environment much thought at all.Now that "eco" has become a big buzzword, however, all of Gerald's efforts are coming up roses!That's why his first business, which sold organically grow...

Nick Daffinson moved to L.A. to become a drummer, but ended up following another beat entirely!In an effort to make a little extra money, he signed up to help a friend sell handmade Indian leather journals at a community market on the weekends.It wasn't long before he realized that there w...

When Lloyd Lapidus and Greg Pippo were dreaming up the concept behind their brand new venture in 2004, they had a couple of important people in mind to target as their ideal customers: their wives! The two entrepreneurs had fashion-loving mates who couldn't get enough the latest des...