Michelle Prather

Looking to hit young adult consumers where they live? Try their parents' houses.

Hand-beaded accessories have treated Christiana Lapetina-Johnson almost as kindly as she treats her employees.

Users are fans of the company's highly relevant searches. We're fans because Google is a dotcom that's making money.

Along with the May flowers, April showers bring a very profitable holiday season.

Worried September 11 relief has busted the SBA's budget? Congress has you covered.

Entrepreneurship is finally getting the rave reviews it deserves across the pond.

Think your city is too small to build a business in? How does population 650 sound?

Grab a cold one and read on to uncover the latest trends in the beverage industry.

Global consumers may be too scared to buy from your site.

The dotcoms may be dying off, but their corporate culture is here to stay.

Sex sells. Pimps sell sex. See an equation trying to form?

. . . hangs in the balance. Now what are tech businesses going to do about it?

Profile of Bikini.com, a "bubble-gum retro" site

Profile of Zappos.com Inc., an any-shoe-you-could-want Web site

Profile of Optimal Robotics Corp. which created the U-scan Express, an automated self-checkout system

Launching a skin-care company from the ground up

Profile of online Honeymoon registry After I Do LLC

Charisma, charm, wit, success...maybe some people do have it all. Meet 11 of today's sexiest entrepreneurs.

Critics are following your every move. Competitors are targeting you. Your friends resent you. Now why'd you have to go and be a success?

A closer look at bees and business

9 of today's hottest netpreneurs

No one invested...they went years without making a profit. Was this publishing duo's path pigheaded or visionary?

Profile of Virtual Ink Corp.

Review of <I>Leading at the Edge</i> and <i>The Leap</i>

Profile of WorldWideAngler.com

Profile of DormNow.com

Profile of CoolAudio.com

Despite an industry upheaval and two gravely ill sons, this health-care entrepreneur discovered the prescription for perseverance.

No experience, no money and lots of competition. So why take the chance?

Profile of eHow.com