Entrepreneur magazine
June 2000
June 2000
Told You So!
Hot 100 businesses do burn bright, but they don't burn out. Here are the businesses that prove there's life after recognition in <i>Entrepreneur</i> magazine.
Web Site
Discover the seven deadly sins of Web site design.
Go Small
Not netting any capital? Try smaller venture funds.
VC Vintage
1999 was a great year for venture capital.
Subscribe Today
Keep up with emerging trends, industry leaders, and strategies for success from the comfort of your own home or on the go with a print and digital magazine subscription.
Less Is More
When the right stocks fill out a focused fund, a little can go a very, <i>very</i> long way.
Financial Roulette
Is borrowing from your IRA a healthy risk or a tragic mistake?
Web Site
Hooking small businesses up with big-name lenders
Don't Wait Until Tomorrow
Granted, federal estate tax laws might change. But don't let that stop you from taking money-saving steps now.
When Dust Attacks
Workplace-related asthma is nothing to wheeze at.
Talent Scout
When recruiting, look to merger survivors-not their laid-off brethren.
On The House
Sometimes, the best way to make millions is to provide something free of charge.
Keep On Shippin'
Wanna' keep your online business free of shipping company disasters? Pick the right system from the beginning, and it won't happen to you.
Palm Power
Net chats, news, stock quotes.coming soon to the palm of your hand
Wise Buys
Reviews of PeachLink 2.0 e-commerce and back office function software, Online Merchant Gold Web design software, and Small Office Security software
When Comrades Go Bad
Protecting yourself from business allies turned business <i>competitors</i>
Web Site
Small-business site for information-hungry entrepreneurs
Do As They Say
Laws: Federal, state, local...and if you're not sure your company's in compliance, you'd better <i>get</i> sure.
<i>Don't</i> Tell It To The Judge
It's good to fire bad employees. It's not so good to yap about how bad they were at unemployment hearings.
Testy, Testy
Drug testing: an easy way to keep problem employees out or a cost-ineffective invasion of privacy? Join the debate.
Cover Your E-Tail
Only covered by standard liability insurance? That is <i>so</i> last century.
Capital Gains Pain
New legislation hurts both buyers and sellers of businesses.
Stock Value
Calculating stock options into a worker's base pay is creating debate.
Show Time
People flip channels during the break...but what if your product were on the <i>show</i>?
Say Cheese!
But don't waste time getting photo subjects to say it-use stock pictures.
Talking Stock
Keep tabs on your investment strategy with free info from the Web.
You Name It
With domain names getting eaten up as fast as Krispy Kreme doughnuts, try these creative tips for finding a name that works.
Drive Me Wild
Storage drives for your laptop
Patent Lather
When you create a product with broad commercial potential, be sure to protect your interests by patenting the products in a way that keeps the competition at bay.
When In Rome.
Start your own translation business.
Living Color
How color, music and aromatherapy can improve the way you work
You're The Bomb
How to establish yourself as an expert to attract more business
What About Me?
Start-up financing is easier than ever--if you're a dotcom. But what about the rest of us? Check out all your options.
Best of the Best
You're young. You're fired up. You want a...franchise? We help you find one that's made just for you.
Highs and Lows
You don't need to spend a fortune on office equipment.or do you? From cheap to posh, here are our picks for the tools you need.
The Real Small Stuff
Pushing the barrier with your palmtop? You need a new breed of processor.
First Come, First Sue
Patents on everyday Web innovations could hurt large and small e-businesses.
Flash!
Competitors' pricing methods and manipulating graphics and photos
Vocal Motion
Online access to thousands of speeches by elected officials, government bureaucrats, business leaders and more
Just The Facts
Small-business reports by state from the SBA's Office of Advocacy
Crime Fighters
Everything you always wanted to know about computer crimes
Fast Facts
Internet and technology statistics
CEO To Go
Web page that aims to be the home page for busy executives
Life Saver
Fellowes' PDA Survival Kit
Fire The Secretary
Hewlett-Packard's HP Pavilion N3290 notebook computer
What's In Store?
Samsung's YEPP YP-E64 MP3 Player
Write On
Toshiba's SD-R1002 CD-R/CD-RW/DVD-ROM
Hertz So Good
Xi Computer's Xi Mtower CPU
Work This Way
I need to obtain a resale license.
Give 'Til It Hurts
...or until you reach 2.2 percent of your colossal earnings, whichever comes first.
Easy Does It.
For Sustainers, success is alright, I guess-as long as it's accomplished in relative comfort.
Net the World
International Web users want to buy from your site--make it easy on 'em.
Help or Hurt?
Test state governments' friendliness to woman business owners.
Fast Track
Profile of manufacturer of reflective accessories and clothing for pets and their families
Pillows & Ports
Hotel high-speed hookups are catching on-slowly.
Road Notes
Deals from Dollar Rent A Car, 1travel.com and Southwest Airlines
If You Don't Have Anything Nice To Say
.say it anyway - but make it constructive, says psychologist Hendrie Weisinger.
You Want The Truth?
If you can handle it, Wal-Mart's panel of experts will tell you how good your invention really is.
Idle Chatter?
Probably not. Those slacker workers by the water cooler may just be working.
Need A Hero?
Mr. Hero uses competition to bring out the best in its franchisees.
What's New
Franchise updates on 1-800-GOT-JUNK, EagleRider Inc., and Sears Carpet and Upholstery Care Inc.
Got Cash?
If not, then you ought to know what lenders are looking for.
Back To School
Computer U franchise teaches seniors how to travel the World Wide Web.
Driving Up Profits
A familiar name offers a franchise that's for keeps.
Free At Last
Is your home office a network nightmare-piles of wires, holes in the wall and cabling for everything but the kitchen sink? Take it all wireless!
Burn, Baby, Burn
Entrepreneur and Dun & Bradstreet's Sixth Annual Hot 100--the fastest-growing entrepreneurial businesses in America
Making Time
Not ready for the burden of a full-time business? How do your evenings and weekends look?
From: Business To: Business
Subject: Long-heralded as the next big set of Internet opportunities, business-to-business e-commerce is here--and the crystal balls were right; it's big.
Pass It On
Forget military school.today's colleges and universities have something else in mind of the kids of today: fashioning them into the next generation of entrepreneurs.
Power In Numbers
How to get big-time marketing on a small-time budget
Keep Climbing
Don't stop now-for a successful tomorrow, you've got to keep building on the success achieved today.
I Hope You Studied
Put your marketing know-how to the test.
Hype-O-Suction
Eliminate some of your ad's excesses, and it can garner more attention.
Thinking Out Of The Box
Cap'n Crunch, eat your heart out! These guys got celebrity endorsers to pose for their cereal boxes-and now they've got big aisle-space clout!
Venture Capital
Funding is just a click away.
Pennsylvania
Getting into the zone can pay big dividends.
Southeast
Entrepreneur donates $4 million to entrepreneurial education.
Trade Shows
Mark your calendar.
Runnning a Multi-Family Business
Working together can get complicated when two or more families run a single business.
Fast Track
The story of an upscale catering and take-out food store
Don't Be Afraid
Are you a big scaredy-cat? Here's how to turn terror into super-confidence.
Escape Hatch
Why now's the time to work on your business exit plan
Clean and Mean
One Hour Martinizing provides an opportunity that won't take you to the cleaners.
Off Color
Is your office puce and avocado green? You need some help-and here it is.
High Hopes
The business will grow. Clients will come. Customers will buy. And if you think we're wrong, maybe you should think differently.
It's a Rental
You can't build cyberspace without physical space, but do landlords like tech?
Book 'Em
Review of <I>Leading at the Edge</i> and <i>The Leap</i>
You Are What You Eat
Does your favorite snack food say a lot about your personality? Absolutely, says Alan Hirsch, director of the Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago, in the foundation's study, "Snack Food Hedonics and Personality."
Spread the Wealth
There's more than one way to cash in on a technology boom.
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