Celebrating the Top 200 Mom-Owned Businesses

Out there on the web is a place called StartUpNation.com.  Check it out.  But if you really want to get a flavor for the American economy at its root, take a look at the competition to find the top mom owned business, the mom-trepeneur of the year. StartUpNation has posted 200 businesses and the web address is attached to each one.

The variety of businesses is almost endless; everything from baking, carpet design, financial planning, social media design, keep you on time support networks, local information from a trusted source, t-shirts, premium design, you name it.  I found PumpAPair, device(s) for assisting in breast milk collection that allows you to......pump better.

I only discovered the site, because during my search for the ultimate greeting card I stumbled upon Across The Line Cards, the creation of a California mom named Lynn Felter.  I bought so many cards, she discovered me.  How many business owners send you an e-mail thanking you for your business?  I've had a lot of dry cleaning done and never received a note from the dry cleaner. Not one call from the post office. Gas station? Not a word.

That's what I love about these small businesses and the people who run them.  Check them out. Find something to buy. Bring back America not through GE or Exxon or the NFL, but through women like Lynn who toil away creating greetings like the one featuring a mother talking to her son at the dinner table:

well, sure, Jimmy, it's perfectly normal to have those thoughts.
but every time you do, god kills a puppy.


That's an America I can get behind.