Learning to Live with (or Without) Your Banker
Feature posing important questions to consider regarding your banking strategy. Read story
Alessandra Bianchi
Focus: Master of the Ordinary
A quick look at a start-up that is built around a new and improved ratchet wrench. Read story
Start-Up News: Speedup in Cashing Out
Two graphs and some figures suggesting there is a trend that start-ups go public much more quickly than before. Read story
Start-up Focus: Gateways to Space
A quick look at how a start-up creates educational videos that use astronauts to inform and entertain. Read story
State of the Art: PC Toys and Games
Three companies that market politically correct toys are profiled. Read story
The Personals Touch
The winner and runners-up of the award for the company that promises continued rapid growth, Emerging EOY. Read story
Head of the Class
The winner and runners-up of the 1994 entrepreneurship Educator of the Year. Read story
Good Morning, Vietnam
Three entrepreneurs discuss their operations in the emerging Vietnamese marketplace. Read story
The Irresistible Customer Questionnaire
A look at a magazine for children produced to support specific software and to survey the kids who use it. Read story
Focus: Is 'Hands-On Consultant' an Oxymoron
A quick look at how two telecommunications experts, one a consultant, the other an entrepreneur, have teamed up. Read story
Sign of the Times: Photo Safety Checks
A brief piece about an entrepreneur who is printing his customers' pictures on their checks to guard against crime. Read story
State of the Art: High-Tech Coupons and Kiosks
A quick look at three start-ups offering high-tech answers to inefficiencies created by discount coupon use. Read story
Niche Picker: High-Tech R
A quick look at the service offered by two start-ups that are using technology to enhance leisure travel. Read story
Sign of the Times: Power Bibs
A quick look at a terry cloth and nylon product used to avoid spilling food and drink on clothes--Lapalong. Read story
Start-Up Focus: Swords into Ploughshares
A short article that profiles a start-up owned by two past members of America's defense industry turned entrepreneurs. Read story
Six-Shooter
One retired company founder wound up starting six new companies. Read story
Long-Distance Medicine
Three start-ups in the field of long-distance medicine. Read story
The Name of the Game
One company changed the name and color of its unsuccessful product and saw sales take off. Read story
One Billion Dollars in Start-up Capital
Highlights from a venture-capital-industry research firm's 1993 data. Read story
Virtual Reality Gets Real
Three companies venturing into business applications for virtual reality. Read story
Tracking Flexible Fliers
A new software program accommodates uneven telecommuting and flextime work schedules. Read story
Designer Foods
Three innovative start-ups that have developed designer foods. Read story
Charged Up: Electric Vehicles
Three start-ups that are developing, converting, and manufacturing electric vehicles. Read story
From Dancing Dots to Floating Restaurants
Sampling of start-ups from 20 small-business development centers. Read story
Picking a Prime Partner
Entrepreneur teamed up with 'legend' of the cardboard industry to launch his new product, Box Boy. Read story
In Your Face, Inc.
'Downsized' workers reemerge with a sense of irony, as seen in these two start-ups. Read story
Multimedia Games
Three start-ups in the hot new field of multimedia games Read story
Entrepreneurial Traits by Nationality
Professor's study compares traits of entrepreneurs in Ireland, Hungary, Russia, and the United States. Read story
Entitled
Some amusing titles entrepreneurs have given themselves. Read story
At Lagerheads
Start-up Boston Beer Works went to court against Boston Beer Company to defend its name. Read story
The State of Seed Capital
Highlights of a study on the characteristics and performance of seed capital funds. Read story
Internet Inc.
Three start-ups are developing business applications for the Internet. Read story
Learning the Hard Way
The successful inventor of a word game relates how she will do things differently the second time around. Read story
Unlocking Genetic Secrets
Profiles of companies hoping to map the entire human genome and locate the genes that cause any number of diseases. Read story
Life After Big Blue
IBM refugees start their own business. Read story
Next Stop: Kiev
A founder of MapInfo has moved to Kiev to work in a business incubator, providing help to would-be capitalists. Read story
Contemporary Greetings
New greeting card start-ups provide an alternative to their more traditional counterparts. Read story
Market Research, Student Style
Working via electronic mail, market research company employs a flexible work force of graduate students. Read story
Seed Capital, Part II: More Microlending
Nonprofits organizations are providing microloans through a SBA program geared to qualified entrepreneurs. Read story
Mighty Microbes
A look at three start-ups in the the bioremediation industry. Read story
