Earlier this week, Amazon announced that their Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) would support Microsoft Windows Server 2003. In addition, EC2 for Windows also supports SQL Server Standard and Express databases. This is terrific news for those of us in the non-LAMP camp. Amazon EC2 has been around for a few years, but only recently did [...]
One of the many challenges with starting a new business is finding out what you don’t know. One resource that stands out for me is the Fairfax County Economic Development Authority (FCEDA). A quick word about the FCEDA. According to the FCEDA web site, it’s mission is to:
… promote Fairfax County, Virginia, as a world-class [...]
The Small Business Administration today urged banks to offer more flexibility to small firms interested in a special long-term loan program as entrepreneurs and established small business owners find it difficult to succeed as sources of credit like home equity loans diminish. As traditional bank lending tightens in the nation’s current economic turmoil, many small [...]
For a decade, entrepreneur Jared Heyman steered clear of commercial lenders in favor of self-financing his Atlanta-based online market research firm, Infosurv Inc.; however, his company’s rapid growth intensified his need for outside funds. Ready for expansion, Heyman recently set out to obtain financing at a time when many companies are feeling the pain of [...]
The top five most pressing issues facing small business owners and entrepreneurs this year are strengthening the economy, taxes and regulation, health insurance, a quality workforce and global competition, according to a government economist. Chad Moutray, the chief economist at the Small Business Administration’s Office of Advocacy, also suggests in his new 19-page paper (pdf) [...]
Barack Obama today proposed a plan of tax cuts and loans for small businesses hurt by the current credit crisis, a temporary program he said is needed to help Main Street and complement what has already been done for Wall Street. In The Trail, a daily diary of campaign 2008 on washingtonpost.com, Robert Barnes writes [...]
While I worked for a company, I took for granted the ability to purchase and use products (and sevices) such as Adobe Acrobat, GotoMeeting and Microsoft Office. As a new entrepreneur, there are plenty of things that are competing for my limited funds and I’m always on the lookout for free or low-cost alternatives that [...]
As access to loans becomes scarce, some middle-aged entrepreneurs are betting their retirement funds on small-business ventures.
About 16 percent of small-business owners have taken premature withdrawals or borrowed from their retirement accounts, according to a recent online survey of 512 small-business owners by Harris Interactive and ING Direct. “Raiding your retirement should always be a [...]
This morning, when browsing through one of my web sites with FireFox, I noticed that one of the pages came back with the following, ominous error.
Needless to say, I was little concerned
I did some research online and was surprised not to find a lot of information about how Firefox determines if a web [...]
