The 2008 StartupNation Home-Based 100 Competition

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Category:Grungiest

If grease, grime, dirt, oil, tar, goop, soot or any combination thereof is a reality in your daily home-business life, this one's for you.

Rank: 1

Northwest Redworms

Entrepreneur: Doug Knippel Location: Camas, Washington
Northwest Redworms

Description:

Sidestepping the expense of paying benefits and salaries to hundreds of employees, Doug Knippel compensates his workers with post-consumer food waste. His worker bees are actually redworms, nature’s perfect composters. This business is also “green”, but we had to pick it as our Grungiest because, well, the photo tells the whole story.

Read this feature story about Doug Knippel.

 

2007 Home-Based 100 Finalists

Showing 26-50 Results Alphabetically
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

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