The 2008 StartupNation Home-Based 100 Competition

Celebrating America's most outstanding home-based businesses and the people behind them.

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Category:Most Innovative

Pioneers of amazingly innovative products that have gone from ah-hah! to cha-ching!

Rank: 2

Catherine Miller Designs

Entrepreneur: Catherine Miller Location: Buckhannon, West Virginia
Catherine Miller Designs

Description:

For 33 years, Catherine Miller has pursued the dying art of intaglio crystal engraving. She hand engraves original art into crystal and glass using a variety of stone wheels of different diameters and profiles on a lathe. All work is executed free hand without the use of stencils or patterns. Some Items have taken close to 200 hours to engrave. She’s done work for Calvin Klein and Elizabeth Arden perfumes, been presented at the White House, and sold her work to many major corporations. She innovates with every creation.

 

2007 Home-Based 100 Finalists

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Name Category Rank
Film Sleepy Most Slacker-Friendly 4
FlameKA.com Wackiest 4
GoReporter.com Boomers Back in Business 4
Greenraising Greenest 3
Greenraising Highest Vote-Getters 6
Haute Choklet Yummiest 5
Healthy Living Group Greenest 4
Hi Lo Tree Service Grungiest 8
Home Remedies Best Financial Performers 8
Insomtech Worldliest 9
InternetLifestyle.com Most Slacker-Friendly 9
IProficient Highest Vote-Getters 5
Kailen's Candy Catering Yummiest 8
KB Promotions Grungiest 10
Kim's Specialty Paper Greenest 8
L & K Cleaning Services Grungiest 7
L & K Cleaning Services Highest Vote-Getters 1
L.B. Soc Wackiest 9
Li'l Darlins Highest Vote-Getters 7
LTDchix Most Slacker-Friendly 2
Lucky Eye Apparel Wackiest 6
Maine Day Trip Boomers Back in Business 10
Massage and Merlot Yummiest 2
Matisse and Jacks Yummiest 1
MaxOut Swimwear Most Innovative 9