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The votes have been tallied and the decision was decisive.
Swaffette Firefly is the new 2009 SLentrepreneur of the Year!

Swaffette Firefly, Second Life fashion designer and entrepreneur, was nominated as SLENTRE’s 2009 SLentrepreneur of the Year by the 2008 winner, Mimi Juneau. SF Designs has been around since 2004 and we’re excited to count Ms. Firefly among our 2009 award nominees. SL residents will be able to vote for the winner later this month.
Swaffette [...]

Patty Cortes was nominated for our SLentrepreneur of the Year Award by several Second Life residents. All of them cited her keen business skills and high-level of professionalism as the reasons they felt she embodied the qualities of a Second Life entrepreneur. We’re pleased to count her among our nominees for the 2009 award.
She was [...]

Honour McMillan, creator of SL’s Drama Dolls was nominated for the SLentrepreneur of the Year Award 2009. She has great insight for SL entrepreneurs and was generous enough to share her thoughts with SLENTRE.COM in this recent interview.
How long have you been in SL? Why did you come?

I first arrived inworld in May, 2007. [...]

By Avarie Parker

Once again my old friend, Peter Stindberg, has been nominated for SLentrepreneur of the Year. He came very close to winning last year coming in a close 4th to the top three ladies that were chosen for the 2008 award. I have republished his original interview originally published February 20, 2008.  I thought [...]

By Sitearm Madonna for SL Entrepreneur
Ayesha Lytton, Owner, Solace Beach Estates, runs a thriving real-world business in the Second Life® virtual world. With 2 years and counting operational success, 60 and counting sims to her name, acceptance this year to the Linden Lab Community Gateway Program, and new-direction expansion plans for 2010, Ayesha is sitting [...]

By Sigmund Leominster
John Zelnik began his Second Life® existence in April 2007. Just over two years later, he is the owner of Zelnik Virtual Solutions and has just opened an in-world museum that follows the life of Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey. SLentrepreneur talked to Zelnik about his…
“After reading various articles about Second [...]

By Sigmund Leominster
Since its inception, SLentrepreneur Magazine has profiled residents of the Second Life® virtual world who have built in-world businesses. Typically their aim is to provide services or products to Second Life inhabitants and, in doing so, generate a profit. But Steve Cropper is working on taking his Second Life business back out into [...]

by Avarie Parker
Over a year ago, I was fortunate to meet Xion Hax at one of Linden Labs famous Second Life parties. He was immediately intriguing as he hobbled on one leg with an ornate contraption where his leg should have been. It was the first time I had seen a physically challenged avatar.  After [...]

by Sigmund Leominster
You don’t just have a meeting with Lissa Maertens; you have an experience. Words like ‘driven,’ ‘hyper’ and ‘manic’ spring to mind – and can it be coincidental that there’s only one tiny letter between manic and maniac? Perhaps her effusiveness is simply a symptom of her whirlwind lifestyle which is centered on [...]