When an entrepreneur approaches me to invest in a high-tech start-up, I ask lots of questions: What is the idea? What market is it aimed at? If I’m not interested, I say, “Thank you very much,” and think of other investors to send them to. If I’m interested, the
P/E ABCs.
Reinventing Jack Kilby.
Texas techies are underpaid.
Booking a hotel reservation online? Before you check in, check out what John Davis III has done to make it possible.
A company volleyball court, $1.7 billion in projected sales, and other ways Max Watson is transforming BMC Software.
High-tech philanthropy comes of age.
The husband-and-wife co-founders of garden.com dish the dirt on their IPO.
Three cheers for twenty Texas Web sites where the buys are.
They do more than just build companies: Meet the power players of Texas high tech.
You do, right? Joe Jamail, Red McCombs, Mark Cuban, and seven other superrich Texans tell you how.
He’s worth tens of millions of dollars at age 28, but money, as they say, can’t buy happiness: Two weeks in the life of Andrew Busey, dot-com hotshot.
“Entrepreneurship is the art of the possible. Anyone with money and a good idea has what it takes to write his own ticket. The hitch, of course, is follow-through. You have to execute. You have to do it. And no one has done it as well as Michael Dell.”
• EXXON, IRVING, $4.45 MILLION More than $3.4 million in unrestricted gifts to 69 Texas colleges and universities, including Abilene Christian University, Rice University, in Houston, Trinity University, in San Antonio, and the University of Texas at Austin. The gifts were made under the Exxon Education Foundation’s matching gift program,
Walter Mischer’s latest developments.
Can you match the Texas donor with the out-of-state recipient?
A Crystal Boot for Michael Dell.
After years of neglect, what did the Legislature do this session for the good people of South Texas? ¡No mucho!
What are the Dallas Stars and the San Antonio Spurs worth—not to mention less successful Texas teams.
Selling it like it is.
After years of not much brewing, Houston’s Duncan Coffee Company is piping hot all over again.
Does the Dallas Morning News discriminate? Plus: Bill Clinton between the covers.
Officially, the issue tearing apart the West Texas' largest native American tribe is one of lineage. Who is and is not a member. But the real dispute is over money—earned in unimaginable amounts at the casino on their reservation and coveted by rival factions willing to risk everything.
From Harvard to Hesitation Hill, the nation’s most motivated motivational speaker is much in demand. And he’ll still see you at the top.
SBC’s generocity.
Why you should buy big-cap stocks.
Clayton Williams, relaxed and enjoying it.
Sterling Commerce’s chairman gets the Crystal Boot.
You’re a casual investor with a little money to burn. Should you spend it all on Vignette, pcOrder, or another Texas Internet stock? Not unless you have a strong stomach, and maybe not even then.
As the nation’s largest chain of natural and organic foods supermarkets, Austin-based Whole Foods Market is where the trendy buy such necessities as tea tree oil toothpaste. But now patrons no longer have to shop in person to make a statement. In late March WholeFoods.com opened for business, offering some
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After only two years on the job, he’s gotten Austin’s environmentalists and developers to work together. That’s why Kirk Watson is our first annual Best Mayor for Business.
The war between Compaq and Dell has gone online. Guess who’s winning?
Desperately seeking Sakowitz.
A Crystal Boot for Pennzoil Quaker State’s CEO.
Exxon’s generosity.
Three hot e-commerce stocks.
How Don Carty is piloting American Airlines.
What Drives Red McCombs
For 28 years Herb Kelleher has run Southwest Airlines as a low-cost, short-haul carrier that’s fun to fly on and even more fun to work for. But there could be changes on the horizon.
After watching their business districts wither away as companies set up shop in the suburbs, Texas cities and towns are banding together to fight back.
How 7 UP is trying to win back its share of the soft drink market, one commercial at a time.
Soft drinks in our public schools.
University of Texas economist Jamie Galbraith used to get laughed at when he preached the gospel of full employment. No one’s laughing anymore.
When I was growing up in Lake Jackson, the center of my world was a park owned by my father’s employer. Forty years later, most of it has been sold to a developer, and natives like me are having a chemical reaction.
The airlines are locked in a fiercely competitive war. Should you try to benefit? Discount-travel guru Tom Parsons says: All’s fare.
A Holocaust survivor saves a West Texas town (maybe).
Michael Dell earned nearly $34 million in 1997. Was he worth it? Find out in our roundup of the most overpaid and underpaid CEOs in Texas.
As the 77-year-old prepares for yet another liftoff, fans and foes alike are praising his missionÑand questioning NASA’s.
Old Texas, New Texas, boom, bust: Whatever the times, Houston strip-mall king Jerry J. Moore makes a living–and lives it up.
