Inside the February 2001 Issue
Features
Raising the Dead
Is that ear-piercing peal the sound of your company flatlining? Clear! We've got 1,700 volts of insight that could turn your business around.
Sacrificial Rites
In the ceremony we call entrepreneurship, it's often family, friends and finances that end up on the altar.
Peep Peep
In a business climate where the line between laying the golden egg and becoming poultry is a fine one, can an incubator provide the help you need?
Bosses From Hell.And What You Can Learn From Them
You may hate your old bosses like Lucifer, but you can learn from them. Just don't join their minions.
7 Investor Presentation Pitfalls
Silicon Valley venture capitalists dish the dirt on the biggest blunders you could make during a presentation to investors.
What's Next? Online Banks.
This is not your father's checking account. Today's online business banking services do the work for you so you can get back to business as usual.
Columns
Bright Ideas
Worried your product will be a bore to consumers who think they've seen it all before? A good marketing strategy will let you rest easy.
Franchise Focus
This isn't selling vintage Cracker Jack boxes on eBay. VR Business Brokers brokers businesses. Get that? Whole businesses!
Opportunities
Franchises help consumers too busy to cook, too tired to drive--and sick of pizza.
Opportunities
The latest happenings at Zaio.com, Aura Shop and WorkSafe by Regulatory Solutions
Opportunities
A lender ready for your loan application--and giving answers in 5 days or less
Biz 101
If this is the question you're trying to answer, our Legal Expert can help you decide if this business form is right for you.
Guts
Take the first step toward getting things done by facing your fears.
Pulse
Is a generation of busy, booming entrepreneurs spawning the next generation of messed-up kids?
Sell
Our picks for the best sales and marketing Web sites around
Books
With a little reading, you could be wise as a prophet, innovative as a rebel and too clever for spies.
Hot Seat
How one dotcom survives--and thrives--in the ultracompetitive wedding market
Capitol Issues
Changes in OSHA's final ergonomics rule fail to satisfy small businesses.
Cutting Edge
If the anecdotes you hear are better indicators of your success and ideals than the facts and figures, you have the makings of a storied business.
Family Business
Is it time for the family and the business to go their separate ways?
Legal
Learn what the Fair Labor Standards Act says about wages and overtime-and avoid breaking the law.
Staff Smarts
Weekend get-togethers, mandatory participation--boy, your workplace fun is starting to seem like . . . work.
Your Business
You develop property, you develop product, but do you develop your workers?
Your Business
You don't want to leave your business, but will you be ready if you have to?
Sales Success
Nobody ever became a success sitting still in the cushy confines of the same ol', same ol'.
Money Smarts
How one company's unique way of raising money is getting them the capital they need to grow their business
Buyers Guide
Ultra-lights, handhelds, Pocket PCs: You want a portable, but what does it all mean?
Hot Disks
LapLink.com's latest file management tool makes online storage faster and easier.
Hot Disks
Product revews of Documents To Go from DataViz, PhotoGenetics 2.0 from Qbeo and iVista 3.0 personal webcasting software
Net Profits
Employees jumping ship for the stability of a brick-and-mortar? Try these tips for finding-and keeping-the good ones in these trying times.
Net Profits
Product reviews of of 3-D Web technology from Viewpoint and gift functionality from WishClick
Tech Smarts
If you're trying to decide what to call your new e-business, take a hint from these creative folks.
Web
This comprehensive site can tell you almost anything you want to know about Uncle Sam.
Hot Biz
Even if you have two left feet, this Latin rhythm can be big biz.
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