The 2008 StartupNation Home-Based 100 Competition

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Category:Boomers Back in Business

Living longer and with greater vitality than ever, these 50+'s have taken up the yoke of entrepreneurship at home.

Rank: 1

Murphy Outdoors

Entrepreneur: Larry Murphy Location: Gladstone, Missouri
Murphy Outdoors

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Larry Murphy, born in 1960, retired from the grind as a technology executive to start Murphy Outdoors. As a boomer back in business, he now provides professional fishing guide services on Smithville Lake, Truman Lake, Pomme de Terre Lake, and the Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri. Murphy specializes in bass fishing, but also guides for musky, crappie, and white bass. Murphy Outdoors also provides instructional fly fishing trips for trout at Bennet Springs in south-central Missouri.

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2007 Home-Based 100 Finalists

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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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