Pistachio Consulting: Emerge from Under a Rock

Until mid-2007, very few people had ever heard of Laura Fitton (@Pistachio). "I was under a rock," she told us, as a home office consultant. Then she started tweeting with zeal and passion and became one of the best-known and most sought-after consultants on how businesses should use Twitter. Recently she formed OneForty.com (named for the maximum number of characters allowed in a Twitter post), and has raised $140,000 in venture funding to get off the ground.