University of Houston


Reasons for Starting a Business

Chart showing reasons entrepreneurs gave for starting their own businesses.  Read story

The Best Advice May Still Be Free

Small Business Development Centers' free advice proves helpful to clients.  Read story

What Makes an Entrepreneur

A seasoned professor debunks some myths about an entrepreneur's traits and lists those he sees as crucial.  Read story

University of Houston:
The Doughnut King of Texas

Some college students schedule classes so they can sleep in as late as possible, but not Danny Klam. The University of Houston senior, who is double-major...  Read story

Birth Of An Industry;

"Industry" births have come easy to the 1980s: personal computing, robotics, biotech. All flared; some, at least momentarily, have fizzled; and now much ...  Read story

Just the Fax, Please

The fax machine is the undisputed favorite business tool of international executives when communicating with their foreign customers. In short, fax machin...  Read story

Taming the Savage Genius

The delicate art of managing employees who are way, way smarter than you.  Read story

Head of the Class

The winner and runners-up of the 1994 entrepreneurship Educator of the Year.  Read story

Stanley Mason Is Growing Oil On Trees

Entrepreneurs like Mason are solving our "insolvable" problems.  Read story

Stanley Mason Is Growing Oil On Trees

Entrepreneurs like Mason are solving our "insolvable" problems.  Read story

This Is a Test

The methods of screening job candidates and the laws that cover them.  Read story

Catching A Post-boom Chill

When Big Oil sneezes, many of Houston's small companies catch pneumonia.  Read story

The Great Texas Water War

Rick Scoville started out to "kick Perrier in the derrier," but he forgot to cover his own.  Read story

Unsentimental Journey

A Horatio Alger success story in the extreme that is the story of many an entrepreneur.  Read story

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