By Rieva Lesonsky
Our mates over at StartupNation have introduced the winners of their Third Annual StartupNation Dwelling-Primarily based 100®.
The competition, sponsored by Microsoft Workplace Stay Small Enterprise, Infusionsoft and FedEx Workplace, ranks the highest performers among the many 16.5 million home-based companies within the U.S. Winners have been organized into 10 classes together with Most Progressive, Recession Busting and Savviest in Social Media.
“The 2009 rating exhibits that home-based enterprise is extra related than ever. The present recession has spurred a brand new wave of residence based mostly companies as a response to lack of jobs, the necessity for supplemental earnings and the sheer ardour of blazing your individual path and operating your individual present,” mentioned Wealthy Sloan, co-founder of StartupNation.com.
The submissions Sloan obtained for the Dwelling-Primarily based 100 confirmed him that home-based entrepreneurs are surviving in a downturn by utilizing social media, being modern and filling a necessity. A standard theme among the many winners this 12 months? Sloan says they’re “problem-solvers”—companies that found wants and crammed them.
Learn extra in regards to the 2009 Dwelling-Primarily based 100 and study in regards to the winners on StartupNation’s Web site.