Another Database Startup Defies Conventional Wisdom
Posted by John Foley
/ IW Jul 17, 2008 06:25 PM
As a former database reporter, I take notice
when a startup comes out with a new database platform. The 30-year-old
database market is dominated by software behemoths likeOracle (NSDQ: ORCL), IBM (NYSE: IBM), and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) with entrenched customer bases. Is there room for another player? TrackVia, which just closed Series A funding, believes so.
Meredith F. Small / LiveScience's Human Nature Columnist Fri Jun 20, 9:45 AM ET
Humans are fundamentally social animals. Our social nature means that
we interact with each other in positive, friendly ways, and it also
means we know how to manipulate others in a very negative way.
Neurophysiologist Katherine Rankin at the University of California,
San Francisco, has also recently discovered that sarcasm, which is both
positively funny and negatively nasty, plays an important part in human
social interaction.
E-commerce in Brazil, like many other Internet activities in that country, is maturing quickly.
Between the first half of 2005 and 2008, e-commerce revenues as reported in
e-bit's "Web
Shoppers" study nearly quadrupled to reach BRL3.8 billion ($2.2 billion).
According to Valor Economico,
in 2007 alone the market expanded by 43%. In terms of the number of
individuals buying online, the figures are almost as dramatic, with 2.6
million buyers in 2003 rising to 9.5 million in 2007.
If you go out on your own, steer clear of these mistakes
By
Mindy Charski / US News & World Report
Posted July 17, 2008
First-time
entrepreneurs tend to make similar mistakes—in good economic times or
bad. If you're considering venturing out on your own, steer clear of
these mistakes:
1. "Forget research and planning—I just want to get going."
"We often find that people haven't thought through their business, and
that's what tends to get them into trouble," says Eric Zarnikow,
associate administrator for the U.S. Small Business Administration's
Office of Capital Access. "A business plan is really the road map of
how they're going to go about running the business. It will help them
determine what resources they need financially or otherwise...It's also
going to be a key thing in talking with a bank or other financing
sources about their business."
As a former database reporter, I take notice
when a startup comes out with a new database platform. The 30-year-old
database market is dominated by software behemoths likeOracle (NSDQ: 
Humans are fundamentally social animals. Our social nature means that
we interact with each other in positive, friendly ways, and it also
means we know how to manipulate others in a very negative way.
