Over the past several months, we collected nominations for Inc.'s annual Entrepreneur of the Year search, and then sent them back to you, our readers, to vote for your favorites. Here's a look at the 10 entrepreneurs you selected as the nation's best and brightest of 2005.

Thanks to an innovative loan-tracking system, Mountlake Terrace, Washington-based MILA helps non-prime borrowers buy homes in less than four hours. Not fast enough? Sapp once closed a deal in two hours and 37 minutes.

Read Layne Sapp's profile.