It is June 2000, and recent MIT graduate John Dough and his friend, business school graduate Mary Manager, decide to pursue a software idea that Dough has conceptualized. Dough believes that he can design a relational database that will more tightly store financial information and more quickly access that information than anything now on the market. Dough and Manager take their meager savings accounts and $20,000 of credit card advances and form Inc., a Delaware corporation. Dough sits down at his computer and begins to program Dough-Ware. Mary successfully approaches five business school acquaintances; each invests $4,000 and.
