The 2008 StartupNation Home-Based 100 Competition

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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

Showing 51-75 Results Alphabetically
Name Category Rank
Medical Solutions International Best Financial Performers 1
Murder Mystery Maniacs Wackiest 3
Murphy Outdoors Boomers Back in Business 1
Murphy Outdoors Most Slacker-Friendly 10
Nashville Lappy Hour Wackiest 1
No Throw Most Innovative 4
Northwest Redworms Grungiest 1
Ocean Summit Travel Best Financial Performers 3
Ocean Summit Travel Worldliest 10
OfficeFinder Boomers Back in Business 5
On Thyme Gourmet Yummiest 10
OnTray Most Innovative 5
Out of Stock Records Most Slacker-Friendly 8
Paris Real Estate Finders Worldliest 7
PetTastics Grungiest 2
Pond Hill Farm Grungiest 5
Preppymommy Most Innovative 7
R. H. Grover Tree Service Greenest 10
Reapalife Wackiest 10
Reapalife Worldliest 6
Red Scream Films Boomers Back in Business 2
Reese's Chicken Pot Pies Yummiest 3
Rixstix Highest Vote-Getters 10
RM Battery Doctors Greenest 9
See My Story Books Boomers Back in Business 9

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