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: 2

PetTastics

Entrepreneur: Peter Hannon Location: Fayetteville, North Carolina
PetTastics

Description:

Scooping poop for a living may not seem like a dream job. But Peter Hannon Jr. likes it just fine. “This is the kind of job I always needed to have. I can’t sit at a desk. I have to be out.” Hannon walks his clients’ dogs if they need it and also drives a pet taxi. “It started with the poop,” he said. “Most people aren’t going to want to clean up their own poop.” He has insurance designed for pet businesses and sanitizes his poop clearing equipment between jobs. “There’s nothing to it,” he said. “For the most part, the poop I get to is dried up and has lost its smell.”

 

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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