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In barely eight years, SnagAJob.com has become a hugely successful part-time and hourly job-posting site, connecting millions of registered job seekers with active job postings. The business started in 2000 with 24 full-time employees crammed into a 1,000-square-foot self storage unit in an office park. Today it boasts 85 full-time "snaggers" in a 35,000-square-fool Silicon

Valley-like facility overlooking a lake in Richmond. Revenues have grown each year, and the company became profitable after its fourth year. Gross sales reached $11 million in 2007. Yet Shawn's passion goes beyond the bottom line, leading him to a level of volunteerism and community involvement that has become a big part of the drive behind his company's success.

Angela Timm, the first runner-up, started Cottage Garden, Inc., a line of sentimental framed gifts and music boxes, as an outgrowth of a successful retail business. The company grew into a thriving operation of its own, with annual sales the first year topping $128,000. Sales doubled every year the first six years, reaching $5.9 million last year. The company survived near disastrous circumstances and faced closure after 9/11, and underwent a major business restructuring in 2004 after a major tornado destroyed Angela's home. Angela then went global, and recorded export sales grew of more than $900,000 last year. Angela received assistance from the West Central Indiana SBDC, and an SBA-backed loan for $1.3 million through the Bank of Indiana.

Second runner-up Deborah Moore enjoyed being a nurse but tired of the daily, 9-to-5 grind. As a single mother of two, she sought flexibility and the quality of life of a home-base
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