Million Dollar Grind

Ashley Qualls started her hobby designing websites at the ripe old age of 9.  She taught herself how to program using HTML in the kitchen on her family’s Gateway computer.  At 14, Ashley launched  whateverlife.com (with $8 that her mom gave her to buy the domain name) as a portfolio of pictures and graphics that she [...]

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How do you profit from the 55 million single women in America? Easy, you sell them a ring.  Married women have wedding bands and engaged women have engagement rings, so why can’t a single woman have a ring too? Ruta Fox markets the first known diamond ring for single women. Worn on [...]

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Starting his career as a woodworker making custom furniture, John Swartz has always been devoted to good design.  Although he was good at making furniture, he had feelings of discontent towards his work.  Swartz wanted to do something other than design furniture.  He wanted to do something that would be a greater impact to the [...]

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