Jodi Helmer

Gigster can find a developer ready to help you in 10 minutes or less.

FarmLogs turns to big data to update age-old practices.

Max Mullen is bringing new meaning to the phrase 'fast food.'

Artizone lets the farmers market come to you.

Understanding these innovations will help you get the most out of the brave new world of peer-to-peer financing.

Two entrepreneurs are singing the praises of cricket-based protein bars.

Smart Gardener brings ag-biz tech to the backyard.

Elevated Element combines unmanned technology and photography, and sales are soaring.

A small-batch brewer rethinks the probiotic favorite.

Meet the man who built a grown-up business from a childhood love of superheroes.

It seems like everyone and their mother has a Kickstarter campaign. Here's how to get yours noticed.

Meet the startup creating tasty edible glasses that could take a bite out of landfills.

Finding the right name can make or break your business.

Inspired by QR-code technology, Juan Murdoch created cotton pajamas printed with a series of dots; when scanned with a smartphone, each dot launches one of 47 narrated bedtime stories,

Regaalo, a web service that allows parents to send gifts to students, applies modern technology to an old-fashioned concept.

Custom clothier Tomboy Tailors crafts bespoke menswear -- for women.

Instead of boring slides with bullet points and clip art, Big Fish creates presentations that tell stories and resonate emotionally with viewers.

When their border collie had trouble seeing during a game of fetch, Roni and Ken Di Lullo invented Doggles, tinted sport goggles for dogs.

SociaLink is an app that uses Bluetooth for instant, in-person connections on multiple social networks simultaneously.

A stolen jacket leads to a big business for an Indiana University grad.

A prepaid campus laundry service offers a lesson in entrepreneurship.

How three UPenn students created Airtime, a program that creates banners that turn e-mail signatures into branded messages.

How PodPonics transformed an unused lot in Atlanta into a productive farm.

Ben Sann was a junior in high school when he came up with an idea for a website that would post the rates of parking garages all over New York. BestParking.com has now grown to include six cities.

A young DJ mixes up a wireless sound solution with his startup EarTop.

A University of Oregon grad turns his love of coral into a thriving niche business.

KegSkins banishes the biggest party foul -- warm beer.

Woodworkers carve out a niche with an offbeat, high-end product.

A low-tech material protects high-tech products and reduces waste.

Julia Erickson and Aaron Ingley were both ballet dancers and business students when they came up with an idea to keep dancers full between rehearsals.