The Price Is Right So you're not filthy rich. You might be after you start one of these 10 hot businesses-and it won't cost megabucks to do it.

So you want to start your own business, but you don't havemegabucks? News flash: You don't need megabucks. All thebusinesses we spotlight here can be started for $10,000 or less-inmost cases, a lot less. We're talking $5,000, $3,000,even $1,000-amounts you should be able to scrape up from your bankaccount, borrow from Mom and Dad, or put on plastic.

Now, before you get nit-picky about numbers, a few ground rules:Costs cited under "Gear Guidelines" are estimates basedon interviews with experts and entrepreneurs, and may vary. For areality check, we asked actual entrepreneurs what they spentto start. In many cases, it was substantially less than ourexperts' estimates. If you've already got some of theessential start-up stuff, your launch costs will be lower, too.