Can Art.com Founder Really Have It All After the Sale?
The decision to sell your fast-growing company is a difficult one. Ask Bill Lederer, founder and CEO of Art.com in Lake Forest, Ill., which provides art and framing services on the Internet.
Balancing Cash Flow and Bigger Clients
Digital Library > Defining and Serving a Market > Market strategy “Balancing Cash Flow and Bigger Clients” Paul Baker and Todd Reifenrath started Chicago-based Webitects.com in February 1999 to lasso the burgeoning demand for Web-site design and Internet content management. However, Webitects may be giving away a lucrative component of its services: a software interface that allows clients to manage…
Battling the Cash-flow Blues
Palo Alto Software, based in Eugene, Ore., opened in 1983 as a business-planning consultancy that was slowly nurturing a software product. A year later Tim Berry, president and founder of Palo Alto, launched Business Plan Pro, now the best-selling business-planning software.