CNN -- Sometimes it seems like you can't get away from sex on the Internet -- from incessant spam to creepy pop-up windows. It's no wonder an estimated 37 percent of Web surfers find their way to adult sites. Ashe discovered there was money to be made while she was poking around the newsgroups and bulletin boards of an Internet in its infancy back in I started striking up conversations with people, saying, 'Hey, you know, hi, I'm Danni.

Danni Ashe is the porn star who pioneered making money online. Documentary Women of the Net proclaimed. She now allegedly lives somewhere in either the Southwest or Mountain West, where she fulfills her creative impulses by working as a photo retoucher. The only downloadable images and videos left of her being the old stuff that made her such a big deal in s and s. But because E!

Today's economic back draft has forced a generation of nascent startups to scurry for new resources and strategies. The ebbing of investment capital is starving the growth of many promising companies, while bottom-dwelling stock options have scared away potential star employees. And so many founders are being forced to rethink the fundamental theories behind their businesses. The most resilient startups, it seems, are those that cultivated the right models and principles at a time when easy money forgave far too many managerial excesses. Such is the case with Danni's Hard Drive.