B-School for Beginners
An elementary teacher has developed a curriculum to teach entrepreneurship. Read story
Alessandra Bianchi
If at First You Don't Succeed...
Company owner starts a new business after first company's demise, to prove it wasn't his fault. Read story
Quick-Response Apparel
A look at three apparel-on-demand companies. Read story
World Without Wires
Three companies are capitalizing on the emerging wireless mobile computing market. Read story
Emergency Tracking
New business develops information-management systems for emergency medical service centers. Read story
Capitalism for Credit
New business manufactures and markets device that attaches to fishing nets and keeps whales, dolphins and seals out. Read story
Start-Ups and Blowouts
Chart showing new-business incorporations, business bankruptcies and business failures nationwide by region. Read story
Beyond Rolodex
New on-line service links users with more than 250,000 professors and academics worldwide. Read story
Servicios Dentales
Entrepreneurs form group dental plan after learning that Hermisillo, Mexico, had only six dentists. Read story
How Sweet It Is
Successful start-up introduces healthful dessert products quickly by contracting out manufacturing. Read story
The Invention Factory
Inventors' association provides networking and brainstorming opportunities. Read story
Rubble With a Cause
Company manufactures a molded structural material made of recycled materials. Read story
How to Write a Patent Application
Ordering information for How to Write a Patent Application by Jeffrey G. Sheldon. Read story
Best Love of Product: True Believers
How some companies cultivate their employees' pride in and passion for their employer and/or product. Read story
Need Help? Call SPOC
Center helps entrepreneurs through R D process with computer-aided design systems. Read story
Clam-Shell Capitalism
An entrepreneur starts a new business raising and selling safe, good quality littleneck clams. Read story
Global Start-Ups
Seven characteristics of successful global start-ups. Read story
The Ultimate Unemployment Benefit
A federally-sponsored program serves as a springboard for unemployed workers who want to start their own businesses. Read story
Calling All Techies
A new company serves as an incubator, venture network and consulting firm for entrepreneurs and inventors. Read story
Who's Most Likely to Go It Alone?
Nine demographic, psychographic and behavioral characteristics that predispose one toward entrepreneurship. Read story
Phoney Business
New companies sell ceramic tiles and listings of apartments, used cars, home-repair services by phone. Read story
Fresh Pak
Entrepreneurs are marketing plastic bags which preserve vegetables' freshness. Read story
The Cutting Edge
Hair salons feature artwork and jazz music to enhance employees' creativity and pamper customers. Read story
Comic Attitudes
Start-up chain of comic-book stores faces competition from established companies for increasingly sophisticated market. Read story
Hedging Mother Nature
New business indemnifies weather-sensitive events. Read story
Home-Shopping Networks
Two new businesses use interactive databases to give users visual tours of real estate listings. Read story
Sol Power
New business makes solar-powered street lamps, bus shelter and billboard lights and commercial exterior lighting. Read story
Total Private-Equity Funds Raised for Investment, 1986-1991
North America ranks ahead of the Asia/Pacific region and Europe in terms of private-equity growth opportunity. Read story
The Best Advice May Still Be Free
Small Business Development Centers' free advice proves helpful to clients. Read story
The Paperless Dentist's Office
San Antonio start-up develops software to replace traditional dental-records-keeping system. Read story
Business Birth and Death Rates
Chart showing combined business birth and death rates for 1982-1992. Read story
Incubator Update
A general discussion of business incubators and their sponsors. Read story
Global-Assistance Start-Ups
A list of four firms which provide assistance and information to companies interested in trading overseas. Read story
Well Said
Brief profiles of five Inc. design award winners. Read story
News From the Home-based Biz Front
New study finds that new home-based entrepreneurs break the traditional mold. Read story
U.S. Work-at-Home Population Trends
Chart showing projected increase in the numbers of Americans who are or will be working at home by 1995. Read story
Venture Capital: The Price of Growth
List showing the average age of a start-up at the time of its first round of venture capital financing. Read story
Unclogging Network Arteries
Woman CEO teams up with high-tech giant to market her new ATM system, an alternative to LAN. Read story
Talking Opportunity
Rental car start-up switches focus to a more profitable cellular-phone-rental venture. Read story
SBA Loans Spur Start-up Growth
Price Waterhouse data regarding the fate of start-ups receiving funds from the Small Business Administration. Read story
