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Senior Startups

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The Health Care Crisis

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Spies Like Us

May 22, 2000
Taming the Techno-Beast

April 24, 2000
What To Do When a Big Competitor Enters Your Market:

March 27, 2000
Remote Control

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MANAGEMENT
Saving a Troubled Brand

When It's Time to Call a Turnaround Specialist
Turnaround artist Renee Fellman tells how she brings companies back to life

Crunch Time
Not worried about a big rival eating your lunch? Look what happened to Guiltless Gourmet after Frito-Lay entered its market


FEATURES

MANAGEMENT
No One Left to Hire

Tech Labor Crunch? This Company Has a Do-It-Itself Solution
When Terasys couldn't find enough skilled help, it trained its own

There is No One to Hire
No one talks about discouraged workers anymore - now it's discouraged employers

What's Cookin' on Today's Menu of Worker Benefits
A look at the perks that employers are offering now

Send Tech Help — Fast!
A new survey finds smaller companies are less able to compete for the dwindling pool of techies

FINANCE
Credit Markets 2000

Small Biz's Borrowing Behavior
A new quarterly survey aims to track where and how small-company owners get their loans

Search for Capital Online
Check this free database for lenders and investors


DEPARTMENTS

TRENDS
Better? Not Patently

Laying Claim to Your Ideas
A brief guide to getting started on patents, copyright or trademarks

WHAT WORKS
Dodging the Taxman

Taxing the Sale of a Company
A 1999 law that crippled many small-business sales may soon get repealed

TECHNOLOGY
Working the Lines

Take a Message
Voice mail systems scramble to keep up with an active, mobile world

Long-Distance: Savings from an Upstart with a Little Plastic Box
MediaCom's low-cost gear and discount package undercut the big boys

Bundling Bargains
Take advantage of packages that tie together cheap voice services with pricier data options

Net Telephony: A Telecom Supersaver for Small Biz
It can be dirt cheap. Still, it's far from hassle-free

INBOX
A Day's Pay for a Day's Work
Temp service Labor Ready is being sued for charging workers for cashing daily paychecks

Speeding Minority Loans
The SBA is beefing up its Community Express pilot program, which accelerates the review process

WHO'S HOT
Kings of the City

After the Palm Pilot, What Do You Do For An Encore
Dubinsky and Hawkins try their magic touch on Palm's next phase

Michael Roberts: Blazing a Telecom Trail for Black Americans
A strategic switch saved the wireless entrepreneur millions - and made him a role model

A Short Strange Trip from Hackers to Entrepreneurs
The notorious group called L0pht has gone mainstream, complete with VC funding. But its image could scare off corporate clients

DIGITAL MANAGER
Mayday.com

Taming the Techno-Beast
Technology is running wild. Learn to manage change, or you'll get eaten alive

Do-It-All.com
Drudge work got you down? A crop of new Web sites promise to ease the load for small businesses

A Low-Risk Strategy for Managing Tech Change
One-stop services are good in theory; now if they can only execute

TRENDS
O.K., Back to Work

Time to Enlist the Disabled in the Entrepreneurial Revolution
Finally, a new federal program that really goes beyond the old vocational-rehab model

The Accidental Entrepreneur
A photogenic young man without a company enters a contest and walks away with seed money

A Funny Thing Happened...
Talk about overcoming a disability: Michael Aronin turned his cerebral palsy into a career opportunity



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