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Mash-Up Mania

The curious new business model that's attracting heaps of cash.  Read story

Investors Pick the Best 2009 Inc. 500 Companies

Venture capital is hard to come by; investors explain what makes a company a good investment.  Read story

Index

A comprehensive guide to companies, organizations, and individuals featured in the December issue.  Read story

Speed Leader

Peter Wagner, a general partner at Palo Alto venture-capital giant Accel Partners, has seen the future ofInternet hookups for small businesses. It's calle...  Read story

Help Wanted: Smart CEOs. No Ideas Necessary

Unlikely as it sounds, venture firms are setting up entrepreneurs just so they can decide on a what business to start.  Read story

Internet Leaders Create Investment Fund

The group will focus on discovering and funding small high-impact companies.  Read story

Index

A comprehensive guide to companies, organizations, and individuals featured in the March 1999 issue.  Read story

In a Former Life: Mitch Kapor

MITCH KAPOR, 49 Present life: Currently a partner at Accel Partners, a prominent venture-capital firm in Palo Alt...  Read story

The IT Talent Shortage

The dearth of American IT professionals has given high-tech workers the leverage to command premium salaries and perks from companies desperate to attract...  Read story

Seven Steps to Heaven

Funding for entrepreneurial businesses has completely dried up, right? Wrong. Angel investors -- long a tried-and-true source of capital for young businesses...  Read story

Myth 3: Smart Money Makes You Smart

Think any Internet start-up can get venture capital? Not true. Entrepreneur Cliff Young had to grow his company before the VCs came calling.  Read story

Update: A Dating Site Picks a Marketing Strategy

Sam Yagan, the founder of OkCupid, creates a blind-dating service to get press attention and create buzz.  Read story

What's Your Company Worth? Ask an Algorithm.

A start-up called YouNoodle is developing an algorithm that, it claims, can precisely calculate the value of a business.  Read story

The New Entrepreneurial Elite

Lured by enormous compensation packages and the excitement of fast growth, many big-company executives are leaving cushy positions to run start-ups.  Read story

National Venture Capital Association Chooses New Chairman

May 5, 2005 --The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) has selected Joe Aragona, a general partner of Texas-based Austin Ventures, ...  Read story

CEO's Notebook

CEOs give advice on: advertising on cable TV, helping obese employees, going public without an IPO, hiring women for corporate boards, and replacing your ISD...  Read story

Any Given Start-Up

In years past, only a Super Bowl ring could light up the eyes of a burly football player. Now he's just as likely to perk up over a new dot-com. Pro athletes...  Read story

CEO's Notebook

CEOs discuss getting employees to act like CEOs; taking advantage of aggregate buying services; finding Web developers in unconventional places; and benching...  Read story

It's Midnight. Do You Know Where Your Tech Support Is?

Finally, a new breed of tech consultant provides affordable, timely help to growing businesses.  Read story

Upstarts: Rookie Venture Capital

A look at how three businessmen with no venture capital experience started Redleaf Venture Management. Plus, several shorter articles about why so many green...  Read story

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