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Recent Start-up Articles

Keeping a Start-Up Simple

By David E. Gumpert |  Dec 30, 1999

Once you're ready to launch, how can you make sure you start out on the right foot? In this excerpt from How to Really Start Your Own Business, e...  Read more

Personnel and Business Plans: Making the Most of Your Management Team

By Tim Berry |  Dec 27, 1999

Summarize Your Management Chapter Like the other chapters, the management chapter starts with a good summary. You may want to use ...  Read more

Risky Business

By Mike McLoughlin |  Dec 20, 1999

A new way of thinking about the nature of compensation between businesses is promising to transform the relationship between service providers and their c...  Read more

Develop a Smart Shopper's Mentality

By Kimberly Stansell |  Dec 15, 1999

Did you know that less is more? It's a smart shopper's cornerstone: The less money you waste, the more you haveto build your business, to make investments...  Read more

The Fine Art of Writing a Business Plan

Dec 14, 1999

Bankers and investors are quick to complain that most business plans they get from hopeful entrepreneurs aren't worth the paper they're written on. Too ma...  Read more

Copyrights in Cyberspace

Dec 14, 1999

While browsing through on an electronic bulletin board, you come across an interesting article on dog training. Thinking it might be of interest to the me...  Read more

How to Write a Marketing Analysis

By Tim Berry |  Dec 10, 1999

After you find out about your market for a business plan, you also want to communicate that knowledge to the readers of your plan. Keep your explanations ...  Read more

Segment the Target Market in Your Business Plan

By Tim Berry |  Dec 10, 1999

The market segmentation concept is crucial to market assessment and market strategy. Divide the market into workable market segments -- age, income, produ...  Read more

Anatomy of a Start-Up, Part 1: The Climb Begins

Dec 8, 1999

In mid-October Richard L. Thompson, 44, and Lawrence G. Braitman, 40, co-founders of Flycast Communications, a Web-based advertising firm, flew from San F...  Read more

" In the Old Days..." : Michael Bloomberg on E-Commerce

Dec 8, 1999

Anyone who has read Michael Bloomberg's autobiography, Bloomberg by Bloomberg , will know that Bloomberg, founder and CEO of Read more

Get the Lowdown on Government Regulations about Home Businesses

Dec 7, 1999

Municipalities have the legal right to establish rules about what types of activities can be carried out in different geographical areas. For example, the...  Read more

Targeting the Right Venture Capitalists

Dec 6, 1999

There are many kinds of venture capitalists who invest in different types of opportunities. Some venture capitalists prefer to provide only seed capital; ...  Read more

In a Former Life: Jay Chiat

By Ilan Mochari |  Dec 1, 1999

JAY CHIAT, 67 Present life: Chiat is the interim CEO of ScreamingMediaRead more

Moving On Up and Out

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Dec 1, 1999

It is often easy for entrepreneurs to see why it makes sense to start their companies at home. But figuring out if it's time to relocate is a toughe...  Read more

Go Sell It on the Mountain

By Steve Solomon |  Dec 1, 1999

A look at Blue Mountain Arts' bold plans for turning its popular Web site into an E-commerce moneymaker.  Read more

Business for Sale: Holiday-Products Manufacturer

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Dec 1, 1999

Want to cash in on one of the fastest-growing holiday markets in America? Consider this child-oriented holiday-products manufacturer. Profile includes price,...  Read more

Taxing Matters for the Home Office

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Dec 1, 1999

Let's face it: the tax deduction for business use of your home may be used, abused, and fantasized about more than any other deduction in the rule books. ...  Read more

Getting the Right Insurance When You're Going Solo

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Dec 1, 1999

A fair number of home-based business owners confided -- off the record -- that they didn't have any additional insurance coverage, because they eith...  Read more

East vs. West: Location, Location, Location

By Anne Marie Borrego |  Dec 1, 1999

What does location have to do with venture-capital funding? Plenty, says Scott Randall, founder and CEO of FairMarket Inc., a Woburn, Mass., Internet-auct...  Read more

Presenting Your Plan

By Tim Berry |  Nov 23, 1999

An important feature of business plans is the summary memo, a streamlined executive summary of 2-10 pages maximum. Investors often prefer just the summary...  Read more

Sole Proprietorship: Starting the Simple Way

Nov 22, 1999

The vast majority of small business people begin as sole proprietors, because it's cheap, easy and fast. With a sole proprietorship, there's no need to dr...  Read more

You Think You Can File an Accurate Tax Return, Do You?

Nov 19, 1999

When it comes to paying taxes, independent professionals should consider if they can tackle the project themselves.  Read more

Simple Plan for Start-Ups

By Tim Berry |  Nov 18, 1999

Your business plan is very important even at the early start-up stage. Even before you purchase business stationery or telephones, or rent a location, you...  Read more

Basic Company Information for Your Business Plan

By Tim Berry |  Nov 18, 1999

The standard business plan outline includes a chapter topic on your company, right after the executive summary. You may not need to include this chapter i...  Read more

Venture Capitalists Don't Relish Risk

By David E. Gumpert |  Nov 15, 1999

Probably the key fact for entrepreneurs to remember about venture capital firms is that their names are misleading. Though the term venture capitalRead more

Plan for Success

By Bruce Kohl |  Nov 15, 1999

Wrapped up in writing a business plan? Whether you're stalled on the first page or polishing the final draft, the Web's business plan resources can help. ...  Read more

The Best of the Small Business Web

By Leigh Buchanan |  Nov 15, 1999

Until recently, most small companies didn't have a clue what to do on the Web. Now they're fielding some of the best stuff online. Inc. Technology h...  Read more

Best of the Small Business Web: House of the Rising Sun

By Leigh Buchanan |  Nov 15, 1999

At Daddy's Junky Music, dynamic online auctions turn aging inventory into hefty revenues.  Read more

Best of the Small Business Web: Hear, Here

By Leigh Buchanan |  Nov 15, 1999

Audio-services company On Air Digital Audio brings voice talent to clients -- wherever they are.  Read more

Best of the Small Business Web: Pitching Camp

By Leigh Buchanan |  Nov 15, 1999

US Sports Camps, a profitable and elegantly designed sports camp site, has turned a summer program into year-round sales.  Read more

Best of the Small Business Web: A Room with a SKU

By Leigh Buchanan |  Nov 15, 1999

Industrial distributor Livingston Haven has created a self-service dream with superfunctional client pages.  Read more

Best of the Small Business Web: Show Me the Monet

By Leigh Buchanan |  Nov 15, 1999

ArtSource offers build-your-own art galleries that help corporate customers make smart decisions.  Read more

Best of the Small Business Web: Standard Bearer

By Leigh Buchanan |  Nov 15, 1999

At Quality Transmission Service, owner Bob Jones's expert advice has made him a local hero and raised his industry's reputation.  Read more

Best of the Small Business Web: Adventure Capitalism

By Leigh Buchanan |  Nov 15, 1999

Ex Officio, a travel-apparel site, evokes both wanderlust and a lust for its beautifully merchandised products.  Read more

Best of the Small Business Web: Total Recall

By Leigh Buchanan |  Nov 15, 1999

Business Response, a first-of-its-kind service, assumes the burden for companies that are plagued by product-safety problems.  Read more