Best of the Small Business Web: Raising the Bar
Clif Bar's Web site helps the brand make a personal connection with its customers. Read more
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Best of the Small Business Web: The Heat Is Online
Advanced Radiant Technology's heating guru wins local customers and far-flung admirers by waxing eloquent on his art and craft. Read more
Best of the Small Business Web: Law and Order-Taking
Atkinson-Baker, the industry's first-to-the-Web court-reporter scheduling service, saves lawyers and employees time and trouble. Read more
Best of the Small Business Web: Office Sweet
CRI, a furniture company, transforms customer service, breaks into new markets, and increases sales leads. Read more
Let Values Guide Your Firm's Strategies
Managing Upside Down by Tom Chappell. Morrow, 219 pages, $25. Even while he was experiencing wild success with his all-natural pe... Read more
Secured Transactions ? the Basics
Silicon Valley is the home to a number of overnight millionaires and billionaires overflowing in wealth and good fortune. From luxury automobiles to perso... Read more
The Possibilities of Partnering
It's easier to go from 0 to 60 miles per hour in business when you have partners. Reinventing wheels, growing each piece of your business on your own, and... Read more
Upstarts: Mompreneurs
Motherhood is a decidedly creative process-and in more than just the biological way. Here's a sampling of the numerous start-up ideas it has given birth to, ... Read more
Help Wanted: An Adult
Here's why the same Internet forces that boosted Eric Silberman's start-up are now pressing him to fill his own job as CEO of Idiom Technologies. Read more
Cyber This
Reviews of five new business books, including four books about joining the "dotcom" frenzy and one book about holding on to your staff. Plus: What Richard Rh... Read more
Business for Sale: Texas Liquor Retailer and Wholesaler
Looking for a sparkling way to uncork the new millennium? Consider this Texas-based liquor retailer and wholesaler. Profile includes price, how the business ... Read more
You Are Your URL
The founders of Salon.com, Mediabistro, and HotJobs.com talk about their struggles to register those domain names. Read more
Partnership Basics
A partnership is an association of two or more persons, known as general partners, who act as co-owners of a business and operate it for profit. The other... Read more
Sole Proprietorships: The Basics
If you own your business, the simplest form of ownership is a sole proprietorship, even if you have employees. All you have to do to start a sole propriet... Read more
Starting a Business You Care About
Before you commit to starting or buying a business, be sure you are genuinely interested in what the business does. If you aren't, you are unlikely to suc... Read more
Choosing the Limited Liability Company As Your Corporate Form
When someone starts a business, one of the important decisions that he must make is to determine what type of business organization it will be. The three ... Read more
Tax Issues for New Hampshire Start-Ups
Registering to Pay Taxes Once you have officially obtained the necessary licenses and permits for your business, you will be respo... Read more
A Plan for All Seasons
In Chapter 1 of the book How to Really Create a Successful Business Plan, author David E. Gumpert suggests that a carefully crafted business plan... Read more
Making It All Add Up: The Financial Section of a Business Plan
Financial issues tend to be unpopular among entrepreneurs. Some find the subject tedious. Others find it intimidating. The result is that many entrepreneu... Read more
Tax Issues for Connecticut Start-Ups
Registering to Pay Taxes Once you have officially obtained the necessary licenses and permits for your business, you will be respo... Read more
Information to Secure from a Franchisor
Here's a helpful checklist for investigating franchise opportunities. Read more
Franchise Site Evaluation Form
Name of person making report: Address: Phone: Date of report: Address of site: Information on Site, Customers, ... Read more
Dotcom Dementia
I want to register a unique .com Web address, but I am at least a couple of months from forming the business itself, let alone deciding on its legal name.... Read more
Trademark Usage Trumps Domain Name Registration in Internet Battle
In a recently issued decision, Brookfield Communications, Inc. v. West Coast Entertainment Corp. , F.3d, 50 U.S.P.Q. 2d 1545 (9th Cir. 1999) the N... Read more
Corporation: Definition, Types, Formation, Maintenance
A corporation is a business or organization formed by a group of people, and it has rights and liabilities separate from those of the individuals involved... Read more
Tax Realities of Husband-and-Wife Sole Proprietorships
A married couple can jointly own and operate a business as a sole proprietorship, under certain conditions. For tax purposes, your spouse is allowed to wo... Read more
Nonprofit Corporations Can Do Good Works and Make Money, Too
Nonprofit corporations, by definition, exist not to make money but to fulfill one of the purposes recognized by federal law: charitable, educational, reli... Read more
E-commerce Success Story: Atevo Travel
Interview with Atevo Travel President and CEO Hyun Shin Q: What kind of products or services do you sell on your ... Read more
E-commerce Success Story: affordablefurniture.com
Interview with president Valerie Devine of http://www.affordablefurniture.com
E-Commerce Success Story: 1800birthday.com
Q: Which products or services do you sell on your site? A: We sell birthday gifts and birthday reminders. We're t... Read more
LLCs Require More Warm Bodies in California
Has California law changed recently to allow formation of an LLC with just one member? No. Some more information for you to go--or stop--on. Califo... Read more
Don't Be So Bashful
When it comes to marketing themselves, IPs are their own worst critics. "I'm never doing a good enough job at self-marketing," admits Hol... Read more
Beating the Night Terrors
It's the rare and perhaps non-existent independent professional who doesn't devote a good deal of time to hustling new business. That 3 o'clock in the mor... Read more
Truth or Dare: When and How to Talk With Your Business Backers
Communication questions Uncertain about how to communicate an unexpected development to your backers? Ask yourself these questions... Read more
Tax Issues for Pennsylvania Start-Ups
Registering to Pay Taxes Once you have officially obtained the necessary licenses and permits for your business, you will be respo... Read more
