SMART WAYS TO MAKE $100,000 AT HOME FOUR OF THE BEST HOME-BASED BUSINESSES IN AMERICA OFFER SIX KEY LESSONS TO HELP YOU TURN YOUR DREAM IDEA INTO A SMASH-HIT ENTERPRISE. - May 1, 1997
(MONEY Magazine) - If you think starting a successful home business requires $100,000 in start-up capital, an M.B.A. from Harvard and a room buzzing with high-tech equipment, consider 26-year-old Brent Winters of Joplin, Mo. (pictured opposite with his wife Robin, 24, and son Ryan, nine months).

Publication: Money

Hit Web for ideas, advice about home-based businesses
This week: Home-based businesses. - The National Association of Home Based Businesses site has links and resources for anyone interested in creating or growing their own company. The writing could be more clear and concise, but it still is a decent place to start, if only because it covers so much

Publication: The Gazette

Finding Good Homes for Good Ideas;Technology Brokers Match Firms With the Expertise They Need
Richard DiCicco runs a kind of corporate dating service. Four years ago, when the Keebler Co., a Chicago-based cookie giant, was having trouble entering the burgeoning chewy cookie market, DiCicco matched it up with an obscure New Jersey firm called Food-Tek Inc. Working with Keebler, Food-Tek's

Publication: The Washington Post

True cost ofcountry life ; Urgent action is needed to stop the collapse of life in the countryside, with young people leaving for the towns in search of jobs and a better chance of finding a home, and farming beset with crises. A Government report this week highlighted these problems, but failed to offer any real solutions. Here, Farming Editor CHRIS RUNDLE offers his ideas
Urgent action is needed to stop the collapse of life in the countryside, with young people leaving for the towns in search of jobs and a better chance of finding a home, and farming beset with crises. A Government report this week highlighted these problems, but failed to offer any real solutions.

Publication: Western Daily Press (Bristol UK)

Good ideas are worth protecting. (patents for software-based financial services)
As banks have used software and technology to build better financial mousetraps, they've discovered their ideas can be patented. The problem is, more of them are winding up in court. Matt Lawlor never set out to pioneer a new field of legal doctrine, but he did that just the same. After happening

Publication: US Banker

Bright ideas build better brands; comfort foods lead the way in new concepts as chains vie for supremacy in the home-meal-replacement business.
Forget the heart. Home is where the money is--at least when it comes to 1995's major new restaurant concepts. In the past year, chains far and wide have been cooking up concepts to cut into the wide lead that Golden, Colo.-based Boston Market (formerly Boston Chicken) has established in the

Publication: Restaurants & Institutions