TM Biz Cover
MARCH 2000
 FEATURES
  Wired Guns
  Gimme an e!
  Tamale Click-Off
  Sharples
  Tech of the Town
  Meetmarket
 DEPARTMENTS
  giving
  management
  travel
 MISCELLANY
  pay check
  what happened…
  y'all street
  how i made it
Cover photograph by James McGoon
March 2000
 features
Wired Guns
They do more than just build companies: Meet the power players of Texas high tech.
by Kathryn Jones
Gimme an e!
Three cheers for twenty Texas Web sites where the buys are.
plus The Great Texas Tamale Click-Off WEB EXCLUSIVE
by Suzy Banks
Cliff and Lisa Sharples THE TEXAS MONTHLY BIZ INTERVIEW
The husband-and-wife co-founders of garden.com dish the dirt on their IPO.
by Evan Smith
Tech of the Town
How Sanderson, Hamilton, and other small communities are plugging into the high-tech boom.
by Carol Flake Chapman
Meetmarket.com WEB EXCLUSIVE
At Austin's High-tech Happy Hour, the schmoozing and boozing is about finding your next job. And, maybe, landing a cute millionaire.
by Katy Vine

 departments 
  givingbiz
SHARES AND SHARES ALIKE
High-tech philanthropy comes of age.
by Helen Thorpe
  managementbiz
LEADERSHIP TO THE MAX
A company volleyball court, $1.7 billion in projected sales, and other ways Max Watson is transforming BMC Software.
by Claire Poole
  travelbiz
ROOM SERVICE
Booking a hotel reservation online? Before you check in, check out what John Davis III has done to make it possible.
by Mike Shea

 miscellany 
  pay check
Texas techies are underpaid.
  whatever happened to…
Reinventing Jack Kilby.
  y'all street
P/E ABCs.
  how i made it
Bob Inman puts his mouth where his money is.
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