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.
How Sanderson, Hamilton, and other small communities are plugging into the high-tech boom.
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.
Lunch with Boone Pickens
• 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,
Tech beats oil on Y’all Street.
Walter Mischer’s latest developments.
Can you match the Texas donor with the out-of-state recipient?
A Crystal Boot for Michael Dell.
Hold your nose and open your wallet: Why the business of garbage is good for Houston.
How Lady Bird Johnson became the first lady of Texas radio.
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.
How much do Tom Hicks and Jerry Jones pay themselves for the privilege of owning the Dallas Stars, the Texas Rangers, and the Dallas Cowboys? That and more in a revealing joint interview.
At the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, a handful of rich Texans are exhibiting their mastery of the art of out-of-state philanthropy.
No surprise: The best place in the state to get an MBA is UT-Austin. But there are plenty of great alternatives.
SBC’s generocity.
Why you should buy big-cap stocks.
Clayton Williams, relaxed and enjoying it.
Sterling Commerce’s chairman gets the Crystal Boot.
Caroline Rose Hunt, at your service.
The dirt on Garden.com, one of the state’s hottest online companies.
Hollywood invests regularly these days in young Texas filmmakers. Not everyone, however, is a good bottom-line bet.
The man who can read the minds of today’s teens and predict tomorrow’s fashion trends is fifty years old? Gadzooks!
Advice for the new state comptroller from the old one.
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.
He’d certainly say no. But there are industries that have suffered on his watch, and at least a few CEOs who would describe his record as mixed.
Different people have different opinions about the controversial CEO of Maxxam, and nothing will change their minds—not even a deal on the Headwaters Forest.
Welcome to Texas Monthly Biz.
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.
Purely in terms of record sales, the Austin band Fastball hit a home run in 1998. But does that mean its members are going to get rich? Not necessarily.
How Don Carty is piloting American Airlines.
Which sports lose money, the economics of luxury suites, and other secrets of Texas A&M University’s athletic program.
On the strength of a simple if indelicate question—“Who’s the Father?”—Houston’s Caroline Caskey has made a big splash in biotech.
What Drives Red McCombs
They’re intelligent, business-savvy, techno-friendly, and young—in some cases, very young. Meet thirty Texas multimedia whizzes under thirty and four who just missed the cut.
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.
