Entrepreneur’s Two Businesses Help Reunite Lost Pets with Their Owners

Entrepreneur Jack Carrier had a lucrative career as a computer programmer. In 2009, he decided to quit and take a risk to focus on an idea he had to help reunite lost pets with their owners. The risk paid off. Today, the 34-year-old has cut a niche for himself in the booming pet care industry (which according to Carrier, saw $45.5 billion in sales last year) by creating a line of fully customizable identification tags.  

Motivated by Desire to Foster Culturally Aware Global Citizens
By Home Business Magazine

New mom Kaamna Bhojwani-Dhawan of San Francisco was inspired to start Momaboard.com when she couldn’t find online resources for traveling with her infant son. “I could find multiple resources for travel in general,” she said, “but little specifically for parents, and there really was nothing that spoke to me from a personal, human perspective.”

Woman Overcomes Physical Challenges and Develops a Successful Online Business

By Nathania Stambouli

Until six years ago, Dawn Sander was a floor representative in the DVD department of her local WalMart. In 2004, her life was turned upside down when she suffered a brain aneurysm that left her missing one eye and functioning at the cognitive capacity of a toddler.

Family’s Love For Party Planning And Designing Invitations Leads To Success
By Amy Grace, Copywriter, CS Mgr, InvitationBox.com
Edited by Home Business Magazine

Jonathan La Nasa is a strong businessman that had a longing for workplace freedom and the desire to be his own boss.  Before starting his own home-based business, Jonathan gained a strong background in business and e-commerce from being the Director of Business Development for AMPHENOL RF, as well as the web producer for Priceline for Gasoline.
    Jonathan and his wife, Katherine, had long been creating custom invites to all their get-togethers.  Then they started doing it for friends.  As their creativity became more in demand, they realized they actually had a business growing out of their spare bedroom.

Entrepreneur Builds iPhone Repair Empire from His Dining Room
By Home Business Magazine

Daniel Vitiello got his first taste of the entrepreneurial life when he was sixteen years old, starting and operating a lawn and landscaping company. After selling his landscape business when he went to college, Vitiello found himself without a job when he returned home the following summer. “I have never been one to work a “real” job,” he says.

Non-Profit Service Helps Premature and Sick Babies Whose Mothers’ Milk Supply Is Compromised

Naomi Bar-Yam Ph.D. is the executive director of the Mothers’ Milk Bank of New England. She is also a past winner at Ideablob.com, a vibrant and active community where small business owners and entrepreneurs share business ideas in exchange for feedback, advice, and votes from the community

Between Marketing Support Available and Marketing Support Needed

Denise Michaels started her home-based business when she realized there was a gap between the marketing support available and the marketing support needed for home-based business owners. So, she found several needs and filled them.

Man’s Hobby Becomes a Home Business —Rebuilding Jeep Masterpieces!
By Mike Bowman

If you would have asked Adam Kickish what the cloud shapes looked like to him as he gazed out the window at work in 2008, he would have said CJ series Jeeps. His dream was to turn his hobby of restoring old Jeeps into a small business he could operate from his home.