TV's Golden Age
Television network focuses on the over-50 market. Read story
Anne Murphy
The Right Attitude
Production company discovers a market for motivational entertainment videos designed for inner-city children. Read story
Trading Places: Are You Ready for an Electronic Stock Exchange?
Wunsch Auction Systems aims to create an electronic stock market exchange. Read story
Box of Rain Forest
New business sells cereal sends rain forest preservation message. Read story
Building Strong Bones
New business sets out to build longer, stronger bones. Read story
Eyes on the Road
New business sells customized traffic reports. Read story
The Father of Invention
Company designs machine to test an individual's capacity to work. Read story
Touch Tunes
New business service offers music samples by phone. Read story
Elder Shelter
New business develops affordable retirement communities. Read story
Housing To Go
New business creates factory-built, modular homes for inner-city neighborhoods. Read story
In the Global Village
New business discovers new drugs through an international network of botanists indigenous peoples. Read story
Separate but Equal
New business creates female urinals for public restrooms. Read story
Video Modem
Business pioneers new way to deliver and store video programs. Read story
Back on Track
90-year-old Railway service is restored between Williams, AZ and the Grand Canyon National Park. Read story
Expecting The Unexpected
Pharmaceutical company creates a popular long-lasting chewing gum while working on a training experiment. Read story
New Life for Old News
New business uses recycled newspapers for building insulation. Read story
One for the Road
New business creates a hands-free drinking system for bikers and athletes on the move. Read story
Safe Bet
Business creates a computerized suggestion box for data collection. Read story
Listen to Your Market
Paragraph describing a telecommunications system enabling hearing- and speech-impaired people to use the phone. Read story
Presto Change-O, Marketing Magic
New business creates a device to simplify VCR recording. Read story
Treatment to Go
New start-up controls rising healthcare costs by providing day treatment to patients. Read story
U Can Read This
New business publishes a rap music magazine. Read story
Using Their Noodles
New business that customizes shoes, lamps, spectacles, art objects, clothing, etc. with macaroni. Read story
Financial Aid
New business provides advisers to the audit committees of public companies. Read story
Notebook
Paragraph reporting statistics on the effect of multiple founders on a start-up's chance for success. Read story
Ready, Aim, Hire
New business finds employment for discharged military personnel. Read story
Splish, Splash
New business sells therapeutic water-workout stations. Read story
The Idea's The Thing
New R D business that incubates ideas. Read story
Touch That Dial
New business introduces interactive television system. Read story
Inventions `R' Us
Profile of a start-up retail shop's attempt to create a market for overlooked new products. Read story
A Kinder, Gentler Lender
Start-up community bank provides capital for small businesses and for affordable-housing developers. Read story
Making Research Pay
Start-up company provides market research, funding, development assistance to promising technology companies. Read story
Move Over, Madonna
Start-up company introduces classical-music home videos. Read story
Ready for Takeoff
Start-up company introduces flying cars. Read story
Uncommon Markets
Start-up company showcases rats and other rodents performing tricks and acrobatic stunts at parties. Read story
A Golden Egg?
New business pitches an egg they claim won't raise cholesterol. Read story
Beamed Clean
New business creates an environmentally safe alternative to incinerating medical waste. Read story
Camp Counselors
New business runs a two week camp for would-be lawyers. Read story
Notebook
Statistics on various start-up rates and talk about economic conditions. Read story
Out of the Air
New business opens quick-serve emissions testing and repair centers. Read story