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Silibubble

Chipmakers are looking at one of their best years in 2004. That's why you should avoid them--with certain exceptions Christmas came early for chi...  Read more

The Third Wave

U.S. entrepreneurs are filling new niches in the semiconductor industry.  Read more

Microcomputers;

OVER RECENT YEARS, FRESH GENerations of microcomputers and their concomitant acronyms have been appearing with bewildering frequency, doubling and redoubl...  Read more

Peaks And Valleys

Venture capitalist Don Valentine scaled the entrepreneurial heights as a key investor in Apple Computer, Altos Computer Systems, and Tandem. Now, amidst unce...  Read more

How About A Little One To One For Your Toaster? Enter Device Relationship Management (DRM)

Just when you thought the alphabet soup of CRM terms couldn't possibly get any thicker, along comes a new flavor to add to the broth: Device Relationship ...  Read more

On the first anniversary of 1982's spectacular market launch, stocks were on their way down. But the nature of any market -- bull or bear -- is to correct...  Read more

A $30-million Company That Never Got Off The Ground

Everybody wanted to see Advent Corp. lead us into the video revolution. But each of the company's leaders pushed it in a new direction.  Read more

Unclogging Network Arteries

Woman CEO teams up with high-tech giant to market her new ATM system, an alternative to LAN.  Read more

The End of the Line

One company, plagued by competition of ex-employees, built a technical-information library and lost that, too.  Read more

Different Routes: Xicor Inc.

At a time when heavily financed, venture-backed companies are failing right and left, Xicor Inc. president and chairman Raphael Klein has emerged as a new...  Read more

A Fine and Private Page

Want to build an extranet for your customers but lack the resources? For a fraction of the cost and stress, consider creating Web pages that only specified p...  Read more

Return of Giants

Is Hollywood edging out small companies and returning to the studio-dominated days of yesteryear?  Read more

Made In The U.S.A.

Profile of a company aspiring to keep manufacturing cheap and effective in the appliance market.  Read more

Our Real Competitive Edge

Start-ups may be the U.S.' best hope in the high-tech production competition against Japan.  Read more

Why Smart Companies Are Saying No To Venture Capital

It seemed, at first, like the logical next act in the classic entrepreneurial script. Having developed his new database software on his home-built Heathk...  Read more

Foreign Affairs

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, " Charles Dickens wrote about the period of the French Revolution, and a number of U.S. companies co...  Read more

Risky Business

A venture capitalist discusses marketplace trends and the venture capital business.  Read more

Will The Empire Strike Back?

When Margaret Thatcher came to power, she promised to imbue Great Britain with a new spirit of independence.  Read more

Smog Lifters

There are people out there who are even more information deluged than you are. Eleven of the smartest--and most beleaguered--reveal their personal regimens f...  Read more

The Great American Revival

While the pundits debate how to restore U.S. industrial competitiveness, thousands of small, flexible, market-driven manufacturers are already doing it  Read more

Cromemco's Never Taken A Dime From Anyone

In five years, the company's revenues soared over 8,000%. Yet it has never sold equity and rarely borrows money.  Read more

The Hottest Entrepreneur In America Is The "smart Team" At Compaq Computer

Companies like Compaq are emerging from the high-tech shakeout stronger than ever. Their secret: avoiding the one-man shown. Is there a lesson here for the r...  Read more

The Age Of Alliances

The new semiconductor companies are getting their funding from a powerful combination of hungry venture capitalists, aggressive bankers, and -- suprisingly e...  Read more

Polishing The Apple

Federal legislation might have given computer companies a tax break for giving equipment to schools. But the bill stirred up its share of controversy.  Read more

Golden Handcuffs

It certainly worked out for me," claims Edward Esber, a former marketing vice-president for VisiCorp in San Jose, Calif. Like many hired field workers in ...  Read more

The Soloist: Balancing Act

"The Foot Nurse" of Silicon Valley has a growing one-woman business and time for a home life to boot.  Read more

The Company Money Almost Killed

Profile of one CEO and his management of a computer chip company on the brink of bankruptcy.  Read more

Product Fallout

"Shake the tree and something is bound to fall out" was the inspiration, such as it is, behind Nolan Bushnell's 1980 funding of Axlon Inc. The tree happen...  Read more

Portland Plays Perception Poker

Can a thriving little city in Maine bluff its way into the ranks of big-time Internet players?  Read more

Dear Jon,

Three years after founding Northwest Instrument Systems, Jon Birck became a cliche -- one more entrepreneur squeezed out of his fast-growing company.  Read more

Buy The Numbers

John Malec and Gerry Eskin had a great idea for a new company. All they had to do was what no marketing-research firm had ever done before.  Read more

Patent Pending

Story of an inventor's 30-year battle to gain control of patent rights to the laser technology he helped develop.  Read more

Flow Charts

While some companies are carried up on a rising tide, others succeed by bucking the industry trends.  Read more

Storm Clouds Over Silicon Valley

As blind faith in the infallibility of high-tech companies falters, the era of unrestrained growth in the Valley may be over.  Read more

Pint-size Computers

As of now, most portable computers are more deadweight than lightweight. Still, if you are looking for a complete business machine to go home to office, you ...  Read more