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Entrepreneur Magazine: September 2009

Cover Story
The Endless Flow of Russell Simmons
The hip-hop impresario and multimedia baron lives and breathes opportunity.

Features
The Reality of Fantasy Sports
An inside look at the entrepreneurial all-stars behind a $1 billion business phenomenon.

How to Make Your Website Really Sell
The best advice for converting visitors to your company's website into real revenue.

Generation Success
These young visionaries turned great ideas into multi-million-dollar businesses.

Breaking the Mold
Dog collars in the vending machines? A personal trainer on a computer chip? Why didn't we think of that?

Editor's Note: The Business of Enthusiasm
Where passion meets profitability.



Columns
Break It Down
Back to School By-the-Numbers
We do the math on the cost of going back to school.

Doing Good
The Business of Activism
How one San Francisco company is uniting social responsibility and capitalism

Financial Fitness
Who's Got Your Back?
Showdown: Money manager Jim Cramer vs. financial advisor Suze Orman.

Franchise Ink
Wild-Goose Chaser
In a game of man vs. wild, David Marcks makes sure the geese are the losers.

Getting In on the Ground Floor
New to franchise? So are these businesses.

Opportunities
The Profitability of Mobility
How a full-time stockbroker diversified into the world of wireless.

Personal Finance
The New Risk Tolerance
A three-pronged strategy for where to park your cash in a recession

Sales Talk
The Human Approach
Focus less on making your pitch and more on listening to what your customers need.

VC Insider
How to Not Get Fired
Being the CEO of a venture-backed company risky. Here's how to keep your job.

Departments
Going Forward
Anatomy of a Rumor
How the office rumor starts, proliferates and can be stopped

Controlled Damage
Go ahead and smash that vase! It's one crash that'll do you good.

The Traveler's Traveler
Joe Sharkey logs thousands of miles a year to help business travelers find an easier route.

Money
The Feel-Good Investment
Why socially responsible companies are more attractive to investors

Start It Up
Wait a Minute!
Your elevator pitch--and why it's time for a change-up


Divine Ink
A monk turns to printing supplies to keep his abbey afloat.

Harnessing the Wisdom of Crowd
Feedback from the masses can help with damage control and improve your brand.

Treasures From Trash
Outfit your business on the cheap , with a little digging and places like Freecycle.

Why Stop at Just One?
Need money to grow? Try franchising.

Tech
Lighter Than Air
Ultra-portable notebook MSI X-340 aims to blow away the Air.

The Paperless Chase
How to cut back on the high cost of printing

Web
Inside an Online Bazaar
Artisans and consumers converge at Etsy.com, a perpetual global art festival.

The Twittering Class
How social media can elevate your company's online cred

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