Michael Carrier is the founder and CEO of Stylehive. Currently living in San Francisco, he has founded two other internet companies during his 12 years as an internet entrepreneur. View the company blog here.

Tell us about Stylehive. What is special about it?

Stylehive is the worlds largest social shopping community. What is special about it is that Stylehive is the best way on the web to discover what you didn't know you wanted to buy.

How did this get started, and what were its beginnings like?

It got started in early 2005, when we were interested in how we could build a community to discover trends in people's tastes and shopping interests. This initial project evolved into the Stylehive.

Where are your users coming from?

Mostly Venus. Our users are mostly women who are doing shopping research on brands and products they find interesting.