Entrepreneur Magazine: June 2000

Burn, Baby, Burn
Entrepreneur and Dun & Bradstreet's Sixth Annual Hot 100--the fastest-growing entrepreneurial businesses in America

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.



Biz 101
Making Time
Not ready for the burden of a full-time business? How do your evenings and weekends look?

First Steps
Power In Numbers
How to get big-time marketing on a small-time budget

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

Franchise Focus
Clean and Mean
One Hour Martinizing provides an opportunity that won't take you to the cleaners.

Opportunities
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.

What's Your Problem?
Separation Anxiety
Should our home and business be in different structures?

Work This Way
I need to obtain a resale license.

Bright Ideas
You Want The Truth?
If you can handle it, Wal-Mart's panel of experts will tell you how good your invention really is.

Web Site
Get your hands on federal government booklets aimed at small business.

Buzz
Off Color
Is your office puce and avocado green? You need some help—and here it is.

Global
Net the World
International Web users want to buy from your site--make it easy on 'em.

Hot Seat
If You Don’t Have Anything Nice To Say
…say it anyway – but make it constructive, says psychologist Hendrie Weisinger.

Pulse
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 Leading at the Edge and The Leap

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.

Idle Chatter?
Probably not. Those slacker workers by the water cooler may just be working.

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.

Travel
Pillows & Ports
Hotel high-speed hookups are catching on—slowly.

Road Notes
Deals from Dollar Rent A Car, 1travel.com and Southwest Airlines

Women
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

Beating The Odds
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!

Bulletin Board
Venture Capital
Funding is just a click away.

Environment
EPA rules and regulations revealed

Pennsylvania
Getting into the zone can pay big dividends.

Southeast
Entrepreneur donates $4 million to entrepreneurial education.

Trade Shows
Trade Shows
Mark your calendar.

Capitol Issues
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.

Cutting Edge
On The House
Sometimes, the best way to make millions is to provide something free of charge.

Family Business
Team Effort?
Working together can get complicated when two or more families run a single business.

Insurance
Cover Your E-Tail
Only covered by standard liability insurance? That is so last century.

Legal
Don’t 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.

Management Smarts
When Dust Attacks
Workplace-related asthma is nothing to wheeze at.

Biz-Wreckers
Stop disgruntled employees from destroying your business.

Talent Scout
When recruiting, look to merger survivors—not their laid-off brethren.

Staff Smarts
Testy, Testy
Drug testing: an easy way to keep problem employees out or a cost-ineffective invasion of privacy? Join the debate.

Your Business
When Comrades Go Bad
Protecting yourself from business allies turned business competitors

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 get sure.

Advertising Workshop
Hype-O-Suction
Eliminate some of your ad's excesses, and it can garner more attention.

Fast Pitch
I Hope You Studied
Put your marketing know-how to the test.

Marketing Smarts
Show Time
People flip channels during the break...but what if your product were on the show?

Say Cheese!
But don't waste time getting photo subjects to say it—use stock pictures.

Flash!
Competitors' pricing methods and manipulating graphics and photos

Real Deal
Yellin' Ain't Everything
Negotiation is only one of six steps to a great deal.

Sales Success
Keep Climbing
Don't stop now—for a successful tomorrow, you've got to keep building on the success achieved today.

Web Site
User-friendly resources to help you communicate more effectively

Funds
Less Is More
When the right stocks fill out a focused fund, a little can go a very, very long way.

Money Smarts
Go Small
Not netting any capital? Try smaller venture funds.

VC Vintage
1999 was a great year for venture capital.

Raising Money
Financial Roulette
Is borrowing from your IRA a healthy risk or a tragic mistake?

Web Site
Hooking small businesses up with big-name lenders

Tax Talk
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.

Buyer's Guide
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!

Connections
Palm Power
Net chats, news, stock quotes…coming soon to the palm of your hand

Net Profits
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.

Web Site
Discover the seven deadly sins of Web site design.

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

Tech Smarts
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.

Tools
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

Web
Talking Stock
Keep tabs on your investment strategy with free info from the Web.

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